It’s the final week of our first term! Year 5 have worked incredibly hard to step up to the higher expectations of Year 5 and, whilst they’re definitely exhausted from the work, they should all be incredibly proud of themselves. We got the chance to end the week with our termly trip to Pegwell bay to learn about the bird populations there which was great fun. Let’s have a look at what else we’ve learnt this week.

English

In English this week, we have been writing persuasive letters to Ernest Shackleton’s job advert seeking crew members for his expedition to Antarctica. We learnt how to structure a letter and an argument to ensure that, not only are we highlighting the skills we would bring to his crew, but also explaining how those skills are transferable to an Antarctic expedition. We have brought in skills like rhetorical questions, emotive language and even practiced a little flattery to butter Shackleton up!

When we return from half term, we will be beginning our book ‘The Jamie Drake Equation’ and writing character and setting descriptions.

 

Maths

In Maths this week, we have been practicing telling the time. We recapped the different types of clock: analogue, 12-hour and 24-hour and how we read them. We focused in on the times when we would read the time as minutes to the hour and minutes past and why we wouldn’t describe 07:40 as forty minutes past seven. We then practiced converting between all these forms of time.

When we come back, we will be learning statistics and practicing reading and recording graphs.

 

RE

For our RE this week, we have been looking at The Bible. We learnt that the Bible is not one book but many. It is split into the Old and New Testaments which themselves contain many books. It is called the Bible as it comes from the same word that ‘Bibliotheque’ comes from which is French for library. We looked at how the many stories of the Bible have different purposes. Some were written as an attempt to document history, some were proverbs meant to teach a lesson, some were Psalms meant to be sung and others were letters.

When we come back, we will begin our new thematic topic ‘Stargazers’ where we will be exploring space.

 

Spellings

Miss Isaac and Mr Oxley’s group:

Existence     vehicle     curiosity      explanation      interfere     communicate     environment       equipped      neighbour      physical

Mrs Mirza’s group:

Earth     famous      history      weight    centre    appear     believe      length     experiment      strange  

 

Love to learn

We had a lot of fun trying to persuade Shackleton to recruit us to his crew. For your Love to Learn we would like you to write another job application applying for one of the jobs below. Please address your applications to the name next to each job.

VACANCIES:

Magician’s Apprentice: Address your application to Mr Oxley

Science Lab Assistant: Address your application to Miss Isaac

New Chilton Headteacher: Address your application to Mrs Law

Prime Minister of Britain: Address your application to King Charles

England Football Team Coach: Address your application to Thomas Tuchel

 

Dates for Term 2:

27th October – Inset Day, children not in school

28th October – Parent/teacher consultation week

29th October – Year 5 to start swimming

31st October – Halloween disco

3rd November – Poppies on sale for following 2 weeks; children to bring in donations in named envelope and house captains to bring poppies round to classrooms

11th November – Service Uniform Day, children allowed to wear their service uniforms into school

12th November – Individual School Photos

14th November – Children in need – This year is a challenge yourself theme. We are challenging the children to come into school wearing as many spots as possible!

24th November – Book Fair on all week

28th November – Year 3 and 5 Come Dine with me (Azure 11.30, Peacock 11.45, Royal 12.30 and Indigo 12.40)

4th December – Year 5 Pegwell Bay Trip

10th December – No swimming this week, Year 5 will have PE as usual

10th December – Christmas Fair 3.15pm-4.15pm

15th December – No PE this week

15th December – Year 1 Nativity at 9am in hall

16th December –Year 5 and 6 Church Performance at 2pm at St Laurence Church

17th December – Year 3, 4, 5, and 6 Christmas Party Day – children to wear Party Clothes to school

17th December – Christmas Dinner Day

18th December – Christmas Jumper Day

18th December – Final day at school; school finishes at 2pm and there will be no after school club