We have come to the end of the first term in Year 5 and what an amazing term it has been! From the very first day to the very last day, the children have amazed us with their enthusiasm and engagement in lessons. We hope that you all have a lovely week next week.

English

This week in English, we have finished our extended narrative which involved writing an alternative ending to the Jamie Drake Equation text. We broke this into different paragraphs to help us build up to the problem and then resolving the problem. Within this writing, we included speech and relative clauses. The final pieces are wonderful!

Here is a photo of Team Topaz writing some sentences with relative clauses:

We have finished reading Jamie Drake Equation this week. Next term, our text will be The Ice Trap.

Maths

In Maths this week, we have been using different strategies to multiply and divide e.g. to work out 24x4 we can halve the 24 and double the 4 to get 12x8.

After half term, we will be looking at solving problems where we need to find a starting point and where we will need to work backwards. We will also be using rounding and our knowledge of place value to add and subtract.

RE

This week we have been focusing on RE in the afternoon sessions. We have been learning about Christianity, with a particular focus on the Bible. We have been learning that the Bible is made up of different books and that these books may be letters, stories, proverbs etc.

Thematic

After half term, we will start our new topic which is called ‘Across the Pond.’

Spelling

accommodate, accompany, according, persuade, opportunity, marvellous, rhythm, rhyme, queue, dictionary

Challenge words:
apocalypse, celestial, perihelion, aphelion, extraterrestrial

Love to Learn

We would like the children to relax and enjoy their half term! Please do still read and use TTRS still.

Reading Competition

Please see poster below for details about a reading competition:

Dates to Remember

2nd November – Staff Development day, children not in school

3rd November – School begins for children at usual time

3rd – 11th November – Poppies on sale in school

3rd, 4th, 5th November – Parent teacher consultations

11th November – Children can wear service uniform to school

13th November – World Kindness Day and Children in Need day. Wear something yellow and/or spotty to school

16th November – Individual and sibling school photos

27th November – Year 2 and 5 Come Dine with me

30th November – Book fair in school this week

4th December – Year 5 Pantomime (year 5 to be collected at 4.20pm)

9th December – Christmas Fair from 3.15pm-4.15pm

15th December – Year 3 and 4 Christmas Church performance at 10am and year 5 and 6 Christmas Church performance at 2pm

16th December – Party day for year 3, 4, 5 and 6. Non-school uniform for these children.

17th December – School Christmas Dinner and all children to wear Christmas jumpers to school (please note children to wear usual school uniform, but a Christmas jumper, rather than a school jumper/cardigan)

18th December – Last day of school. School to finish at 2pm. No after school club on this day.

We hope you have a wonderful week next week. Thank you for all of your support over Term 1.