Maths

Maths

Today the children recapped what they knew about dividing decimals by 10 and 100 and we discussed what happens to the digits when we multiply. We played practical games where the children danced to the ‘Cha-Cha’ slide and wrote on tables or their place value chart to...
Solubility Experiment

Solubility Experiment

This term, in Science, Class 5 are exploring the properties of materials.  This week we did an experiment to understand the meaning of solubility.  We had five different substances including sugar, salt, sand and hot chocolate.  We used our understanding of the...
Percentages

Percentages

This week, Class 5 have started their unit on Percentages. To help us understand what a percentage is, we used grids with a hundred squares on them to identify percentages around us.  We learnt that percent means ‘out of 100’ and how we can write this as a fraction...