Week beginning 6th January 2025

Welcome back from the Christmas holiday! We hope you had a wonderful time celebrating with family and friends. May the joy of Christmas never depart from our lives. Amen

We appreciate the lovely Christmas cards, messages and gifts - Thank you.

Our project for this half-term is "Earth and Space".

Important dates and messages:

• Wednesday 8th January - Science hook day.

As part of our Space Hook Day, children can come in dressed as astronauts as they will be completing serious astronaut training in preparation for our new topic. Complete costumes are optional; homemade jeans and a t-shirt outfit would suffice.

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact us.

 

Worship theme:

Epiphany

After Jesus was born in Bethlehem in Judea, during the time of King Herod, Magi from the east came to Jerusalem and asked, “Where is the one who has been born king of the Jews? We saw his star when it rose and have come to worship him.”  - Matthew 2: 1-2

 

Curriculum:

We will work on our opening doors curriculum in English, which uses rich texts to encourage fantastic writing. 

This week in maths, we will continue our work on fractions by subtracting from a mixed number by breaking the whole. 

In Destination Reader, we will start our netbook for the term, focusing on prediction and retrieval skills.

We will be exploring friendship and forgiveness in the PSHCE lesson.

In RE, we will be starting the "Buddhist" unit.

 

Other news:

• PPA Days - PPA Days will be every other Thursday, and children should come in wearing PE kits.

• PE every Thursday - Children should wear their PE kits every Thursday.

Homework:

• Please find links to the relevant information below for the Project Overview and Homework.
• MyMaths - we will set up MyMaths tasks termly, based on the learning we will be doing this term. Please let us know if you are finding them too easy or tricky, and remember that below, there are many resources you can use to extend your learning from home. Various MyMaths activities have been set for this term. This is to allow children who like to do more, to be able to. However, children do not have to complete all MyMaths activities. One per week is our minimum recommendation. 
• Reading books - we would like to remind everyone to have a reading book in school - this can be a school or home book. We want all children to be able to share recommendations and reviews of what we have read recently. We are displaying books we've read in the classroom to get children talking about the stories they love and inspire others to try new titles.
• Reading records - All children should now have a grey reading record in which they can record how often they are reading. They will receive one raffle ticket if they read three times a week and two if they read more than five. At the end of each term, we will draw a raffle to win a trip to Costa. You have to be in it to win it! Activities in the reading records can be completed at home for fun! 

 

Reading:

We are reading 'The Jamie Drake Equation' by Christopher Edge and using the following Designation Reader sentence stems to start our answers this term. We focus on different skills in each lesson: inferring, predicting, asking questions, evaluating, clarifying, summarising, and making connections. 

        

 

 

Spellings:

Our spellings for this term are below. However, we are moving away from weekly tests using more discreet learning techniques and applying the use of our spelling words across our curriculum. 

 

Best wishes,

Year 5 Team

Miss Martin and Mrs Fakorede

Learning as a family in Jesus, through Love, Hope, and Forgiveness.

Matthew 19:26 “With God all things are possible.”