Thank you so much to Kate from Proper Job in Chagford for coming into school last week and helping Year 5 make sustainable wreaths. They all look amazing and it was very helpful for us to think about ways in which we can be sustainable over Christmas. Thank you. 

Children In Need Day
Year 5 came to school today dressed as 'something they want to be when they are older'. They all made a super effort and I was very lucky to have the help of a new supply teacher 'Miss Kite' too! Well done everyone. 
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In English this week, we have been role-playing the characters from 'Hidden Figures'. We have also used superlatives to describe how the women must have felt when they got moved to the IBM computer room. 
In Book Club, we are reading Cogheart by Peter Bunzle. Pupils came up with some amazing adjectives to describe the mechanimal 'Malkin'. 

Welcome back to the second half of the autumn term, it's been lovely to see the children back in class and hear about their half-term break.
We've started a new unit of English work this week in which we've been discovering the history of NASA and NACA. In Maths, we've been learning about prime, square and cubed numbers. Please keep practising those times-tables!

Harvest Service - St. Andrews Church
Year 5 did an excellent job performing their signed Harvest song to the rest of the school in church today. Well done everyone and thank you for walking so sensibly to church with your Year R buddies. 

Year 5 have been studying 'The Children of the Benin Kingdom' by Dinah Orji in our English lessons. This week we have been discussing relative and adverbial clauses. 

A budding class of entrepreneurs! 
Enjoy your summer holidays everyone, what a lovely class you have been to teach. 
​Mrs Leslie & Miss Watts 

It's been a Musical kind-of week in Year 5. Firstly, well done to everyone for performing so well in the music concert on Thursday, you did brilliantly. Year 5, your recorders sounded fantastic. 

They have also spent time rehearsing for the play. The dress rehearsals went really well this morning and all of the Year 5 staff are looking forward to the performances next week. 

Year 5 pupils enjoyed making camouflage animals in their Wildlife Champions session on Thursday. They hid them in the forest school area and then went on a animal hunt. They were also set the challenge to find 50 worms to enable them to understand how hard birds have to work to feed their babies 

Lovaton Farm Trip (thanks to Scarlett W!)
Year 5 had a super day out at Lovaton Farm on Monday.  Discovering the many ways that Jane's farm is sustainable was perfect for our topic of Energy and Sustainability. We enjoyed walking around the farm and finding out how areas of field are allowed to grow wild to encourage insects and how herbal leys will help the soil and pollinators. We enjoyed sampling some of their delicious apple juice and saw the orchards where the apples grow. In the afternoon, we were set the challenge of trying to come up with some imaginative ways that wool could be used so that farmers get a fairer price for the wool. 
Thank you so much again to Lovaton Farm, Leaf Education and to Scarlett W for winning us the day out!