Week beginning 31st March 2025

Thank you to everyone who came for the parents' evening. We were happy to share your child's progress from September to date with you. It's the last week of term, and we hope the children have a well-deserved Easter break. It's Mediterranean class worship this Thursday (3rd April 2025).

Our project for this half-term is "Mighty Mayans".

Important dates and messages:

Worship theme:

Easter

1 Peter 1:3: "Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! In his great mercy he has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead." 

 Luke 24: 6 – 7 He is not here; he has risen! 

Curriculum:

In English, we will review the SPaG and reading papers from the just-concluded PiRA and PUMA exams.

In Maths, we will continue our work on fractions and examine how they correspond to percentages.

In History, we will be looking at how Mayan inventions have impacted civilisation. 

In RE, we will be answering the question: What does the bible say the Kingdom of God is like?

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 the 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 display 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 Boy in the Tower' by Polly Ho-Yen 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 (THIS WILL BE UPDATED WHEN WE HAVE OUR NEXT SET OF SPELLING WORDS) . However, we are moving away from weekly tests, using more discreet learning techniques, and applying 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.”