Week beginning 3rd March 2025

It's been lovely having the children back this week as we started the term with a game of Pok-a-Tok to introduce them to the Mayan civilisation.  Starting Monday the 3rd, Year 5 will have Forest school every Monday till the end of the term. Please send your children in their PE kit for this.

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

Important dates and messages:

Worship theme:

Lent

Ephesians 4:32 says, “Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you.” “Therefore, encourage one another and build one another up, just as you are doing.”   

Curriculum:

In English, we will continue our new book, 'Rain Player,' by planning and writing a setting description based on the book and also retelling the story aloud.

This week in maths, we will continue with the fractions unit, finding the whole and moving on to decimals by the end of the week. We will begin some of our lessons with magic maths questions where the children can explore real-life problems with manipulatives.  

In Destination Reader, we will continue reading "The Boy in the Tower" and focus on different skills. 

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.”