Week beginning 28th April 2025

Welcome back, everyone! It was great to have the children back in school, and in no time, they were back into the swing of things.

Our project for this half-term is "Stone Age to Iron Age".

Important dates and messages:

TUESDAY 22nd APRIL - THE FIRST DAY BACK IS A PE DAY - Please can children come in in PE kits. 

Worship theme:

Love

‘Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonour others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. Love never fails.’ 1 Corinthians 13:4-8 

Curriculum.

In English, we will create narratives using setting and character descriptions.

In Maths, we will continue our work on fractions by examining equivalent fractions, decimals and percentages. We will finish off the week's lesson with an end-of-unit assessment.

In history, we will study the lifestyle of Neolithic people.

In RE, we will be making the connection between the bible and Christians' beliefs.

In PSHCE, we will learn about healthy sleep habits.

In Arts, we will study the lifestyle of Neolithic people.

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 'Stig of the Dump' by Clive King 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 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.”