Week beginning 24th February 2025

Well done for such an amazing term and thank you to everyone that came along to our fantastic outcome! We are so proud of all the children and the work they have done this term and we thoroughly enjoy sharing in our pride with you all. 

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

Important dates and messages:

Worship theme:

Welcome back!

Curriculum:

In English, we will be moving onto the exploration of our new book, 'Rain Player' and looking at persuasive language. 

This week in maths, we will be looking at fractions and how we can multiply them, even when it is a mixed number. We will be beginning some of our lessons with some magic maths questions where the children can explore real-life problems with manipulatives.  

In Destination Reader, we will be looking at our new book 'The Boy in the Tower'.

In RE, we will be looking at the Understanding Christianity module of the 'Kingdom of God' and looking at Earth like heaven.

In computing, we will be looking at E-safety.

In History, we will be looking at our new project, but we are keeping this lesson a secret for now!

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 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 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.”