Year 5 have had an amazing first week back! Tuesday saw our first swimming lesson in which everyone behaved impeccably and did themselves and the school proud. Over the next two half terms, the children will be taught how to use different strokes by the swim coaches across 4 smaller groups. We have also kickstarted our new year with the news of kindness points and guinea pigs! For the majority of the week, the kindness shown in Shark Class has been lovely resulting in only one point being lost out of a possible 10. In Maths, we have learnt short multiplication and begun to learn long multiplication too. As part of our new afternoon maths meetings, we are focussing heavily on time as this is something that some of us are struggling with (words, 12 hour and 24 hour). The vocabulary used in this week’s English lessons has been phenomenal and has really brought the beach pictures used to life. I’m looking forward to a great week 2 where we continue our fantastic efforts.