Year 5
Welcome to Year 5:
Toucan Class & Macaw Class
Mrs Souissi is teaching Macaw Class this year and Mr Jones is the class teacher in Toucan Class.
Welcome
Welcome to year 5! We hope you find the information below useful as your child starts the summer term with us. This information will help you support your child at home with the organization of their week and their learning at home.
Key Times
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Homework |
Homework will be set every half term. Your child will be asked to work on a number of projects, designed to enrich the learning taking place in school. This approach to homework has been designed to enable you and your child to work together in a creative way and to develop a love of learning. Please see the homework document for Summer. |
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PE |
In year 5, the PE days are Tuesday and Friday. Please ensure that your child has their PE kit on these days. |
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Key Times |
The school gates open atâ¯8:30 in the morning. From 8.45, children will be able to walk to their own classrooms. Children must be on their way to their classrooms by 8.55 as the playground doors will close as normal, at 9am. In KS2, children will be dismissed at the end of the day at 3:25. |
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Homework
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Read it |
Research it |
Make it |
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This term we will be reading a book called ‘The Transfer,’ written by Terence Blacker. Your task is to read another text by the same author.
Be ready to share what you’ve found with the class! |
Part of our topic is to discover more about our local area and how the area has changed over the years. We would like you to research Penge and its surrounding areas. Your task is to describe how the area has changed over years, decades and centuries. Find as many interesting facts and changes as possible. |
Our topic for this half term is ‘Building a Village’. Your task for this half term is to construct a village that would be able to provide a quality life for those people living there.
You can have a maximum of 8 buildings. |
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Practise it |
Write it |
Design it |
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Spend some time practising the skills we are learning in school:
Handwriting; joined up and in cursive. |
Our POR story has the theme of never giving up and overcoming obstacles that seemed at first to be insurmountable. Your task is to write a short story where your lead character has to overcome a challenge that has exactly that feeling.
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Due to global warming carbon dioxide and average temperature is rising whilst Arctic ice decreases by 13.2% per decade and land ice is getting thinner by 2856 Gigatonnes per year. At the same time, every year, the sea level rises by 3.2 millimetres. Your task is to design a village that is energy efficient and relies solely on natural resources.
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A note to parents, over the course of this half term please work with your child to complete the above. Each of the activities has been designed to support, enhance and enrich an aspect of the curriculum. We are looking forward to seeing the results of your work together. The homework will be due in on the second-to-last week of half term |
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What are we learning?
In literacy we will begin by reading The Transfer by Terence Blacker. This book is about Stanley and a virtual football player Lazlo, who is a genius super-striker. His skills may be exactly what Stanley’s team, City, so desperately needs. But there is something strangely familiar about Lazlo… Stanley’s heart races. He licks his dry lips. So does the player. Could Stanley’s wildest, most dangerous dream become terrifying reality?
In maths, we will be returning to our learning about fractions, before moving on to telling the time, and problems relating to time.
How can I help at home?
One of the key ways every parent can help is to ensure that your child is at school every day and on time. Other than this, the main way you can help is by ensuring that your child reads every day, for at least 20 minutes – this can be with you, or on their own, but it is the most effective way of ensuring that your child progresses and learns outside of school. Children have a Mathletics login – please encourage them to use this frequently, as it will really help with their quick recall of mathematical facts. They are also given a login to “Literacy Planet - word mania,” which can be used regular to help develop spelling and fluency.
If you have any questions, please talk to Mrs Souissi or Mr Jones, or you can arrange a meeting at the office.
Thanks,
Mrs Souissi and Mr Jones
