Welcome to Year Five
Mrs Wilde and Mrs Vaughan help the children in Year 5 with their learning
Things to bring to school
Every day: homework diary and reading book
Wednesday – completed learning log
Every Tuesday/Wednesday - PE Kit (take home every Friday)
Homework
- There will be a learning log challenge that will be set every Wednesday, which should be returned to school the following Wednesday.
- We would like the children to work on maths every week, any day they choose. This could be IXL or learning their times tables.
- Children are given spellings (every Monday) to learn at home and they need to return their spelling books by the following Monday.
- We also expect that the children will be spending time each week reading.
We ask that you please initial all completed homework for your child in their homework diaries. Thank you.
Autumn 2
Wednesday 6th September - Friday 20th December 2019
Theme: Vicious Vikings and Smashing Saxons
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Children are going to learn about Britain’s settlement by Anglo-Saxons plus the Viking and Anglo-Saxon struggle for the Kingdom of England to the time of Edward the Confessor :
English - Texts for reading and writing prompts: Beowulf (poem and Michael Morpurgo book), How to Train your Dragon (Cressida Cowell), non-fiction texts relating to the theme of Vicious Vikings and Smashing Saxons, poetry and a play script for their Christmas assembly. Spelling and grammar- homophones, prefixes and suffixes, doubling consonants, apostrophes, noun phrases, relative clause and pronouns. Mathematics - Place value, multiplication and division, graphs (line graphs) and timetables. Science - Forces: including gravity, levers, gears and pulleys. RE - Examine creation stories. Does science and faith work together? DT - Design and make a viking longship Music - Listen to: Ride of the Valkyries. Compose and perform: Music for Christmas around the world. French - Je suis le musicien (I am a musician) Computing - Using PowerPoint to present information & internet searches/safety |
The key focus for this half term will be history
Important dates:
Friday 8th November - FREE Ashton Cinema trip (to see Abominable)
Friday 13th December - Class 5 & 6 assembly
Thursday 19th December - Nativity in Church
On Mondays, we have Chess with Mr Glover.
On Wednesdays, we have PE with Miss Terri and Music with Mr Partington.
On Tuesdays, we do physical activities with Mr Rusholme.
Our class prayers
At lunch time:
For health and strength and daily food, we thank you God.
Amen
At the end of the day:
Now the day is over, we lift our hands and say,
Thank you heavenly Father/God - for today,
We're sorry for the wrong things, but glad about the right,
Keep us heavenly Father/God, in your love tonight.
Amen
