First Day Fun (RRS)

After all the excitement of settling into our new class, we had a fabulous time reading and writing numbers to a Million!

Our final masterpiece

This weeks challenge was to design, make, assess and improve our own maths board game. 

We all had fun trialling our own group game and then went around and played another group's game. Here are the photos!

Special Guest - James Guy

Today Shaftesbury Primary School were very lucky as they had medal winning swimmer James Guy come to visit! Throughout the day he was in the pool giving world class advice to children of all ages! 5 Poplar were even lucky enough to have him pop in and answer a few of their questions! Thank you James and best of luck in the 2016 Rio Olympics and the competitions over the summer, Shaftesbury will be rooting for you!

Shaftesbury Survey and Sketching

Earlier this week year 5 walked around Shaftesbury, tallying the different types of shops. We also took the time to sketch the beautiful scenery. Here are a few a snaps of what we got up to! Do you recognise where we were?

Estimating Volume Activity

Outside of 5 Poplar there are 5 bottles labeled A, B, C, D and E. You simply need to estimate the volume of liquid in each bottle to be in with a chance of winning a prize (the closest estimation will win)! Don't forget to write your name next to each estimation! Good luck from Mr Mustard!

Maths - Converting fractions into decimals and percentages

Today 5 Poplar were using smarties to convert between fractions, decimals and percentages! They first had to solve the fraction (out of 25 or 50 smarties) and then find the equivalent fraction out of 100. After that, they could easily convert the fraction into a percentage and decimal! They throughly enjoyed this activity and I wonder why...

Cocoon up date

Finally we have ourselves a beautiful butterfly. Was your guess correct?