Blakeney

You can contact Miss Black by emailing her on – a.black@gf.kwestacademy.com

Year 5 and 6 Curriculum Information Booklet

Please click on the links below to see what we will be learning this half term 

Curriculum overview grid summer 2 UKS2

Homework grid Summer 2 UKS2

Blakeney Learning goes online!

Blakeney Learning goes online!!

Hi kids. I’m so sad that we won’t be spending the last week of term together at school but it’s just one of those things. We will  be resilient and determined to make the most of it. I have tried to ensure you don’t miss out on learning and the fun that we had planned for the last few days. So, take a look at the timetable of lessons/fun I’ve planned below. Pay particular attention to the live lessons (in green) and the EAL Show and Tell times (in blue). There’s also some games and activities timetabled so make sure you join us:

Blakeney

Monday 19^th July to Thursday 22^nd July 2020 – 2021

How to access live lessons and resources this week

Go to your Teams app on your device. The link for each live lesson/session will be on the chat page. Just click the link for the relevant lesson when it’s time. Try to make sure you allow video so we can see you and allow microphone so that we can hear you. All hard copy resources can be found on the Teams Assignments page, clearly labelled by subject.

If you have any questions, please send a message on Teams chat. Just a reminder to you all while I think about it – please only use the chat for important messages and try to leave not to go nuts with the emojis !

I look forward to seeing you all next week on Teams 🙂

Blakeney’s Weekly Celebration

Hi everyone,

this week’s shout-out is going to Rhys, Anna and Alfie for engaging so well with our English text, ‘Voices’, by Anthony Browne. While the whole class impressed me with the way they joined the conversation, these three children stood out for their thought-provoking and insightful observations about the characters in the story. Quite honestly though, I have never seen the class so excited about their reading; all were joining the conversation and getting involved with the interpretation in their groups. This is some of the ‘graffiti art’ produced by the children while we read the story:

I also want to share with you a project that four of our children initiated during lunch breaks this term; Toby, Patrikas,  Tyler, and David have been learning a real-world skill – how to create a tile mosaic! All children learned how to work cooperatively and safely in producing a table mosaic for the school. We have just about finished and only had the grout to put on when we went into self-isolation. Not to worry boys – I will go in over the summer break and put the grout on and then upload the finished product for you to see on the website. This is how it was looking just before we finished (with a little help form Bethany and Carina):

Blakeney Celebrations & Learning

Blakeney’s Celebrations

This week, I think Bethany, Rhys and Thomas deserve a pat on the back because they worked really well to draw 3D shapes in Maths. Asif, Logan and Carina have also been working independently in their Power Maths while Joseph, Andreas, Andrew and Sonny have been going over and above to push their understanding by doing Year 9 and even GCSE level Maths. Lukas and Adriana — really engaged in lessons and have been developing their confidence in lots of ways… In English, Alfie achieved a target he’s been trying to achieve all year and did an excellent job with editing his writing. A shoutout goes out to the whole class for finally discovering that ‘this reading comprehension lark’ is not as hard as they thought! Now they have the strategies and the quick-find techniques they need. They really understand the importance of taking it one step at a time, one question at a time until they achieve the objective in a task.

While I love telling you about all the weekly achievements, I’m going to hand over to the children now and allow them to tell you who they nominate for a weekly shout-out and to tell you what they’ve been learning this term…

Shout-outs and nominations from the class go to…

Luja: This week, I think Freya deserves a pat on the back because she helped many people with learning.

Freya: This week, I think Luja deserves a pat on the back because she has been helping other people in computing.

Joseph: I think Andreas, Andrew, Sonny, Freya, Alfie and Joseph (me!) deserve a pat on the back because they were all doing year 9 maths extensions, including ratios, directional proportions and interpreting graphs. 

Andrew: I think Joseph deserves a mention as he helped me when I struggled with ratios.

Sonny: I think Joseph, Andrew and Andreas deserve recognition because they helped people in maths this term.

Joseph: I also want to nominate Nancy, Logan G, Logan H, Andrew, Andreas and myself for doing very well in swimming. 

Andreas: I nominate Toby and Rhys for showing excellent behavior for learning this week. 

Alfie: I choose lukas and Thomas for improving in English. 

Evie: I think Freya deserves a pat on the back for helping Asif and Logan and being really patient working with others. She always listens to what others have to say.

Rhys: I want to give a shout out to David because he helps me out with DT.

David: I think Rhys deserves a pat on the back because he helped me with spelling and Maths. I also think Ms Black deserves a shout out because she helps me stay calm and lets me colour.

Ksenia: I want to give Logan G a pat on the back for his English – he’s been working really hard on it.

Adriana: I nominate Karolis for clever DT, Joseph for good French, Evie for PSHE (kindness), Rhys for his amazing sunflower planting, Sonny for being clever in Maths, and Freya for doing extra work in Topic.

Some of our learning this term:

Freya and Luja: This term in English, we have been working on news reports and deciding what is biased or not. We also have learned what news is real or fake as well as language to make our reports more formal…

Andrew, Sonny and Joseph: This term in Maths Extensions we have been doing ratios, fractions, (a 30 page year 9 booklet) directional proportional, inversely proportional, angles and now we are doing interpreting line graphs.

Joseph and Andreas: This term in swimming, we have been improving in front crawl, backstroke, breaststroke and dolphin kick (half of butterfly). We love swimming!

Evie: In reading comprehension, we have been working towards taking what’s in the text as the answer – even the spelling and the way it is written as that helps us.

Rhys: This term in DT, we’ve been designing objects to make our lives at school easier. For example, a catapult ball returner, a fight breaker-upper, a walk home object holder, and an automatic chair elevator 9to see the board from the back of the room). We’ve designed from different views and made changes to strengthen structures or make it waterproof.

Ms Black: We’ve also been doing a little extra-curricular drama, art and gardening:

Summer Reading Challenge

Do you want something for your children to do in the summer holidays? Look at this reading challenge organised by Norfolk Library Service. Keep your little busy all summer and sign up today!

Parent Flyer NCC 

Summer Reading Activities Challenge V4

Keep calm and keep reading!!

Blakeney has a lot to celebrate!

This week, Blakeney has a lot to celebrate because the whole class earned ‘Over and Above’ recognition in our assembly today. I was so proud of the way the mature and respectful way that they behaved at the start of the week while I was unwell. Each day,  I received posititve reports of their behaviour and was thrilled to learn that they had been working hard. In fact, when I return to work I was really impressed with the quality of the work they produced. Well done to all of you!

Today, we finally managed to find a break in the clouds during which we could dash outside with our volcanoes to see if we could produce a more dramatic ‘eruption’ than last time.

The first time we tried it, we used these ingredients:

But it was a bit of a disappointment, with just a few bubbles trickling out of the crater after giving it a thorough shake about! So, I went away and had a rethink…

This time, we tried these ingredients:

But despite shoving dozens of mentoes into the top as quickly as we could and running for the hills….. nothing happened.

So eventually, we just did this:

Oh well – we did enjoy making them and it was a really fun topic.

Next week, we’re going to have a go at growing sunflowers. Wish us luck!!

Summer 2 Spelling Lists

Welcome back to the new term everyone! I’m looking forward to seeing you all and hearing about your break.

Thinking ahead to our spelling this term, I’m sharing the next 6 weeks of spelling lists with you so you can get ahead of the game!

Year 5 Term 3B Overview

See you tomorrow 🙂

Ms Black

Blakeney Information for Parents

Blakeney Announcements

Hello everyone, I just want to share a few reminders:

P.E. is every Monday afternoon. Please could I request that all children come to school in appropriate PE clothes and PE shoes. Also, we have had a number of children come to school without a warm jumper/hoodie on Mondays. While the weather may start off fairly warm, it is often windy and cold for children by the afternoon. Therefore, please ensure that children have clothes that will keep them warm and comfortable during their outdoor lessons.

Swimming is every Wednesday afternoon. Children need a swimming costume or swimming trunks as well as a swimming hat. Hats can be purchased from Mr Holmes for 20p. We will not be able to give change, unfortunately.

Some parents have been requesting the weekly spellings. Please find attached the weekly spellings lists for this term (weeks 1-7). We are currently studying Week 5 (sounds /ear/ but spelt -ere). Overview

News from Blakeney Class

Last week was one to rememer! 

In science, the children were busy making electrical circuits and investigating what happened to light bulbs, motors and buzzers when the voltage was increased. The room was filled with the sound of wizzing and buzzing and the giggles that went with it.

We also finally managed to get the hall so that we could complete our DT Tomato Challenge. The children had to come up with a solution for farmers in Nepal who needed to get their tomatos down the mountain side to the markets. They had to get as many tomatoes down the ‘mountain’ as quickly as possible withought damaging any. Many tomatoes made it safely to market but some also got stuck half way down the mountain. Others landed with a splat! It was a lot of fun and the children learned something in the process.

Well done Blakeney!

What an interesting week it has been Blakeney. We have started to master Teams live lessons! It’s been wonderful having us all together to learn and I am hugely impressed with the way you adapted to Teams online learning.

Below is some work from the week:

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Thank you to those of you in class who were patient while we got the technological hitches sorted out and thank you for joining in our lessons so enthusiastically. I could also see that the children learning at home felt really happy about the way you greeted them every lesson.

Remote learners you have been utter superstars! You quickly got the hang of live lessons and participated fully in the learning. I am so proud of you all.

However, we are all back in school on Monday and I know that we are very excited about that. The future is looking bright kids!  See you all Monday!