What we’ve learnt about The Highwayman and highwaymen:

Here are just some of the facts we've learnt about Highwaymen and about our poem...

Shayna- Highwaymen stop rich people and say “Stand and deliver!”
Shikaila- That the highwayman used to rob coaches.
Erika- He isn't really a good man because he robs coaches
Precious- He says to Bess, “I'll be back with jewellery- Gold”
Adam- a Highwayman isn’t just one person.
Chloe- If you're a Highwayman, you might be caught by King George's men
Daniel- In the poem, the Highwayman loved Bess
Bilal- Highwaymen lived in Waltham Forest
Sara- We know why Bess got caught.
Ben- Bess fell in love with the Highwayman and Tim got angry
Nicole- The Highwayman was bad but he still loved Bess
Aadil- The Highwayman is 1/2 bad. 1/2 good
Shikaila- Bess shot herself because the Highwayman liked her first and then Tim, she shot herself to warn the Highwayman that there was a trap
Precious- I learnt what a pistol is.
Toba- Most Highwayman are quite ruthless
Chloe- Tim the Ostler loved Bess
Assia- If you're a Highwayman, you won’t live a safe life because soldiers would try to get you.
Nicole- I learnt what an Ostler is.
Nafisah- I learnt that in 1605-1800, highwaymen were very popular.
Nargese- I learnt that highwaymen rob day and night. I didn’t know that highwaymen could be in love with girls because they are robbing at day and night.

What we're learning next week

So you know what some of what we're up to next week...

Maths:

Lots of data-handling: graphs, charts and tables of all kinds- pictograms, bar-charts, bar-line graphs, line-graphs. We'll be investigating the data- identifying what conclusions we can draw from them, if there are modes (most frequent/popular item) in the data.

Plus, if you are a super-whiz, you may want to investigate the median, average and range...

English:

Over the next 2.5 weeks, we're studying older literature, most notably, Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol. We'll be covering a variety of activities including:

• Practising our Comprehension skills (retrieving information, infering information, evaluating, commenting on preferences etc).



• Using dictionaries to look up archaic (words which are not used so often nowadays), Victorian words, words we don't understand.



• Revising the types of punctuation we encounter and why we use them.



• Writing our own new chapters and settings for the book- using all our powers of description.



• Identifying characters' personalities from what they say, do and others say about them.



• Evaluating how characters develop.



• Using comparative connectives.



• Comparing film and literature.

Science:

We'll be looking at the functions of the heart, the muscles, what happens to our bodies when we exercise and why.

D&T/Topic:

Try and save/find a shoe box for our Victorian room. Have a look at Victorian room pictures if you can, for inspiration.

And for the week after...Get practising finding your pulse rate!!! Also,we'll be assessing your story-skills soon!

This week's homework:

A Highwayman story review.

5 day food diary.

What we're doing this week

This week in English:
We are continuing with the Highwayman poem, writing our own poems based on it, practising dramatically presenting the poem in groups.

In maths we are studying perimeter and area of shapes (mainly rectangles)
Area=length x width

In science, we are studying the components of a balanced diets, learning what each gives us and planning healthy menus.

Week 5: some highlights!

Here's some of the activities we have been participating in this week:

Friday 24th September 2010
Week three summary in 5K
(Arighni from the previous week!)
This week we have done much more than the last blog. We have made and preformed our own play script. We preformed Nicolas Nickelby and we adapted Oliver Twist. We have written our own play scripts. Today Erika has done a performance on the achievement assembly. We watched the year 2,s dance about where the wild things are. Yesterday we learnt new French words. We did history with a visitor called Terry Wad. That’s it.
By Arighni

Week five summary in 5K
Achievement assembly
Today we have had our achievement assembly.
Assia had the best recount of the ragged school.
She had really brilliant adjectives. There was a girl in year two who wrote a story about a funny parrot. There were all very good. We all had a great time finding out what children did in each year group.I wish you were there two.
By Arighni

Choir
Miss Allin had started to teach us choir again an there is a lot of people we have learn a lot of songs like melons and in the autumn lives start falling
By precious

Miss Allin has started choir again and I’m in it, there is loads of new people and new songs and I herd the last year choir songs and I think the songs now are better. It is on Wednesday, half 3 till half 4. the songs we learn are:- water melon seller,
By Erika

IN CHOIR WE LEARN TO SING A SONG CALLED MELONS AND WE DONE A SONG IN ASSEMBIY CALLED HARVEST TIME AND THE TEACHER IS MS ALLIN AND MS HUNT MS TUCK

By Shikaila

Week 5 summary
In music we are doing Egyptian drumming with a drum called a Jeba*. You have to lift it of the ground for a better sound. If you don’t you still get a sound but not as fantastic. You can play it with 2 fingers to get a more bouncy sound or as many fingers as you want. We also listened to some famous composers music on the Jeba. Not all of us had a Jeba some of us got normal drums.
By Jeevan
[*djembe]

The Ragged school museum
THIS IS ABOUT MY OUTSANDING TRIP TO THE RAGGED SCHOOL MEUSEM (Museum).THIS PLACE WAS BUILT MORE THAN 130 YEARS AGO TO EDUCATE POOR VICTORIAN CHILDREN BY A VERY GENOROUS MAN CALLED DR.BERNARDO.AFTER 1901 THIS PLACE WAS TURNED INTO A MEUSEM.
FIRST OF ALL WE WENT WITH COLIN (WHO IS A VERY FUNNY MAN)TO LOOK AT A VICTORIAN KITCHEN.HE SHOWED US A MANGLE WHICH WAS A PRETTY DANGEROUS MACHINE.THEN HE SHOWED US THE LONG SOUP THEY USED AND HOW THEY WASHED THEIR CLOTHES AND OTHER STUFF.
By Bilal

My 5th week in year 5
In year 5 I have been learning in science that shadow only came out when the sun came out on Thursday.
By Chloe

5ks Ragged School trip
This trip is all about 5ks petrifying and nice trip and nightmare Victorian Ragged school lesson!.
We had to have our own Victorian names and dress as a poor Victorian child.
By Aadil



RAGGED SCHOOL
On Thursday my class and I went to the amazing Ragged School in Bethnal Green. When we arrived at the Ragged School we were early so we played in the park opposite.
By Amritpal

The British Empire

This week we were learning about The British Empire. I learnt that there were 71 countries and Queen Victoria ruled all of them, such as India, Jamaica, Austrailia and Nigeria. I also learnt that traders went on a boat risking there life just for money. Many of the traders did not get to the destination caused by heavy and intense waves. Queen Victoria ruled so many countries so there will be back up for war and to be able to transport valuable goods, such as food and money. Today we celebrate by playing in the Commonwealth games but only countries that were in the British Empire may compete.
By Taran

Week 5 in year 5k: Maths
In the past few days we were doing maths. We were focussing on written methods with addition and subtraction. We did decimals that included money here is an example:

1463
+ 6821

____
7984
Make sure you do the correct place value
By Nafisah

Our harvest assembly
In our harvest assembly the class when to put there food on a table for Pakistan people. After the people in choir song two song of harvest. Mrs Allin talked to us about harvest and how is it important to religions and how the Pakistan people need food
By Nicole.

Week 5 Summary: The empire:

This week in year 5 we done PHSE with Miss S we learnt about The British Empire. We had to draw a map of the world, and colour in the countries that The British Empire ruled. Some of the countries were India, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Nigeria, Egypt, and South Africa there are other countries.
By Amraaj

Achievement assembly
Today I showed the school my recount. It was about my amazing day at the ragged school. I enjoyed the classroom best even though I was paralyzed with fear. I still enjoyed it.
By Assia


Thanks to the creators of the callout pictures at mouserunner.com.

(ICT reminder: Remember to acknowledge where you got your pictures and information from!)

Maths next week

In Maths next week (week beginning October 11th) we will be revising our division facts and division strategies.

SO practice your timestables to gold level so you can use these facts to help you!

Earth and space

In science we are learning about Earth and space. In art, we worked in pairs to create large paintings of the planets.
Click here or here

to practice ordering the planets and revise some other things about the Earth, Sun and Moon and planets.

BUT remember, though we painted flat circular versions of the planets, they are all in fact WHICH shape????

English recounts

We are working on recounts at the moment in our English lessons and will be working on these for the next couple of weeks. We will be looking at diaries, biographies, summarising the main points of a text in note form and planning our own based on our experiences.

Here are the checklists we would use for an effective recount:

L.O. I can write an interesting recount.

CHECKLIST: Does my work include the following features?

- Written in the past tense.
- My recount begins with an introduction by setting the scene- who, what, where, when, why
- Includes names of people and places
- Is written in chronological order
- Uses a closing statement/conclusion that sums up the writing.
- Uses time connectives/phrases, e.g. First, After, Next, Afterwards, Soon, Later, Meanwhile
- Includes detailed description of setting that interests the reader. (using interesting vocab)
- Is written in paragraphs, using a change of paragraph for a change of time/subject.
- Is interesting!
- Uses fullstops and capital letters appropriately.

Awesome adverbs

We have been working on using adverbs in our work, particularly playscripts but they crop up in EVERY piece of good writing! But what are they? Adverbs are words that tell us more about verbs and how they are done....they add information to the verb.
(A verb is a 'doing' word or a 'being' word, e.g. 'walk', 'feel' so 'I walk mournfully', tells you that I walked sadly)

We have made an interactive display of some useful AND interesting adverbs to help us in our work if we get stuck for ideas. If you are still not confident with using adverbs then click here to try some BBC quizzes or worksheets on adverbs.

Can you say you have achieved the target of using interesting adverbs in every piece of writing?

What happens to the shadows throughout the day?

5K have spent today investigating what happens to the length and position of shadows throughout the day.

At half an hour intervals, 2 children went out with the following equipment to draw a chalk line on the shadow and measure and record its length using a metre stick. As you can see, the length of the shadow continually changed.

Can you explain what has happened to the shadow? What does this tell us about shadows during the day?

Which witch is which?

Homophones are words that sound the same, but have different spellings and meanings, e.g.flower and flour. You need to learn these words as there are no spelling rules to help you remember them. It's just a memory thing!

Which cake is mine?
The wicked witch strode along angrily!

Click here to play a ffun homophone game!

Week 3 summaries

We've been up to lots recently, including acting out plays! Here are a couple of anecdotes and thoughts that 5K would like to share!

I’ve had a great time in 5K it’s much better than year 4.
I have Ms Kalhan and Ms Allin there fun Teachers very fun.
I like where I sit because I’ve got room to work in.
I and Jeevan are good partners we have lots of times with each over.
And we both love maths it’s really fun.
5K has lots of fun and we have this compertion (football)
By Jack

Week three in Year 5
In the last three weeks of year five we have been writing a play scripts. In this week we got to write our own play script, we have to set in the Victorian times. I named my character SILVER
I made mine friends with my friend and my friend is TOBA and his character is TOM. Well story is about SILVER and TOM trying to steal from the queen VOCTORIA but get caught.
By Adam

Friday 24th September 2010
Week three summary in 5K

This week we have done much more than the last blog. We have made and preformed our own play script. We preformed Nicolas Nickelby and we adapted Oliver Twist. We have written our own play scripts. Today Erika has done a performance on the achievement assembly. We watched the year 2,s dance about where the wild things are. Yesterday we learnt new French words. We did history with a visitor called Terry Wad. That’s it.
By Arighni

Today I bought some scrumilicious apple crisp from the tuck shop I love them!!!!
By Erika.

Yesterday we done French we learnt how to say planets in French and animals!
By Kamal

This week we went to a drama workshop up in the hall...
We met a man called Terry and he taught us all about Victorians. We had a little game to wake us up. It was a game to remember four words
By Nafisah

Wednesday we did maths I thought it was very good because it was very easy and I whizzed through it . With my friends. When we did English we acted out Oliver twist!
By Toba


This week we had a fun P.E lesson on Wednesday we practised throwing and catching, after we had a short game of rounders it was terrific! Also this week I had another great music lesson and when I thought it could not get any better it did, we did a super history lesson based on Victorians. It was full of activities.
By Taran

Stay safe on the internet!

In our first ICT lesson of the year, 5K revised our knowledge of E-safety, i.e. how to stay safe on the internet and any other form of technology like e-mail and mobile phone technology. We visited the Cyber-cafe where we completed a number of tasks and encountered a number of different scenarios which required us to think about how to respond to communications we received. At the end of the lesson, we talked with our partners and shared with the class, the lessons we had learnt about how to stay safe in the ICT age!

Here are our responses:
E-safety

1. If you don’t know someone on a website or you get a text from someone strange, tell your Mum and don’t reply (Erika)
2. If someone said ‘send a photo of yourself and you’ll get lots of money’ you shouldn’t send a photo because they may be lying. (Yemi)
3. When you get a chain message, you shouldn’t send it on. Delete it and don’t worry! (Daniel)
4. If a stranger comes onto your computer, ask an adult what to do about it or delete it. (Scott)
5. If you receive a text and don’t know what it is- delete it! (Chloe)
6. If someone asks to meet face-to-face and you don’t know who it is. Either, delete it or tell an adult. (Jeevan)
7. If someone tells you to give them your address, you can tell an adult, or delete it. (Nicole)
8. Just because someone says they are friend from school online, doesn’t mean that they are. (Toba)
9. Don’t tell people what school you go to or your address (Arighni)
10. If someone says they want money or your personal details, don’t accept it. (Scott)
11. Don’t accept e-mails if you don’t know who it is. They COULD be sending you viruses. (Shayna)
12. Say you got a text message from someone in school and they are bullying you, don’t reply back or they’ll reply again or something horrible. Show and tell an adult in your house and/or tell your teacher. (Yemi)


STAY SAFE!

Our first week in year 5!!!

The first week in year 5 is over! Phew, we're extraordinarily tired! Here are just a few comments some of us have written about our first week! Enjoy!

I have had a great this week. We have done play scripts, the solar system, painted planets that are orbiting the sun, French and maths.

I am looking forward to science and maths because I have found out that I am starting to like year five. I also like the sums in maths, it will be pushing me further and further if I keep on trying. I am looking forward to doing science because it is my favourite subject.

By Arighni


I meet my year 5 teacher her name was Miss Kalhan and Miss Allin. I thought Miss Kalhan would be strict but she is very kind I like the entirely lesson I did with her she is very funny. Then we had Miss Allin I liked all of her lessons. Then we went on the computer and went on e-safety
By Shayna

I’ve had a great time in 5K it’s much better than year 4.
I have Ms Kalhan and Ms Allin there fun Teachers very fun.
I like where I sit because I’ve got room to work in.
Me and Jeevan are good partners
By Jack

The first week in yr 5 was exotic and exciting and scary at the same time!!!!!
By Erika

On week one I liked P.E because we were dancing and it was fantastic and on Maths I liked the work and it was very easy. The next day we got to go on the jungle gym. On a different day we had to write a post card and we had to draw
A picture of what we did on are holiday. On the next day we had to write about Eid and colour the back round. On the Last day we did art To paint Planets and it was brilliant.

By Nargese

This first week has been really fun with my 2 new teachers
Miss Allin and Mrs Kalhan .We are going to be doing
play scripts this year in literacy like Nicholas Nickleby.
This week we done 2 tests science and maths to see where
we are. In pe we are going to be doing dance this lesson we just done the basics. In ict we are writing blogs like what
I am writing now.

By Jeevan


On the first day it was very fun we did so many things like maths English science and music. I enjoyed music but I did not enjoy English because we did a test. It felt very weird in assembly because we were sitting in different positions.
By Toba

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