What a busy final week of our penultimate term! From Vikings Games to CATS tests to the Be Here, Be You, Belong parade we’ve packed a lot in on top of our learning! Let’s have a look at what we’ve been up to.

English
This week, we finished reading Street Child by Berlie Doherty, which saw Jim Jarvis — a real boy from Victorian London — finally find a home with Dr Thomas Barnardo. After witnessing the terrible conditions street children lived in, Barnardo founded a charity in 1866 to help children and families in need — a charity that is still supporting people today.

This week, we have been learning about the charity and how it has changed since the 1800s before writing our own reports about it. In our writing, we focused on using a range of conjunctions and varying our sentence structures to keep our readers engaged. We also worked hard on organising our paragraphs carefully so that information was presented as clearly as possible.

Maths
In Maths this week, we have been learning about percentages. As percentages appear all around us in everyday life, we began exploring the maths behind them. The children learnt that percent means “parts out of 100” and practised converting fractions with denominators of 10 or 100 into percentages. We also converted decimals into percentages and discussed where we might encounter these in the real world.

Events
We have also had a very busy start to the week, beginning with the Viking Games on Monday. Thankfully, we were blessed with mostly good weather as we travelled to Upton to join schools from across the trust for a day of activities and teamwork.

Although spending the day away from close friends can sometimes feel a little daunting, it was a fantastic opportunity for the children to meet new people and challenge themselves socially as well as physically. We had a brilliant day packed with fun activities — and the children were especially impressed by Upton’s enormous playground at lunchtime!

Dates to remember:

1st June- Kent test registration opens 

17th – 24th June – Book Fair 

18th June – Year 6 Come Dine with me picnic 

19th June – Zoe Artemedis (local Author) visiting school 

24th June – Class photos 

26th June – Non-school uniform day for all in return for Summer Fair donations (see Summer fair letter that will come out early term 6 for details) 

30th June – Music evening at 6pm 

1st July – Big fat quiz of the year (year 4 at 1.30pm and year 5 at 2.15pm) 

10th July – Year 3-6 Sports day from 9.15 on the top field 

10th July – School reports sent home 

13th, 14th, 15th July– Transition days (children will spend these days with their new class teacher) 

14th July 2.45pm – Parents invited into child’s new class to meet their teacher 

 

We hope you have a lovely half term!
The Year 5 Team!