Welcome to Cannon Street Class

Class Teacher: Mr C Grundey (Year Group Lead)

Teaching Assistant: Miss Campbell

Homework:

Handed out on Fridays,

Returned by Wednesday,

Please remember that homework is an important building stone in the child’s learning and development. The children will receive Dojo-Points for completed homework as well as particularly outstanding contributions.

Daily Reading:

To help further develop the children’s reading and academic development, please support and encourage the children to read daily for at least 10 minutes. This daily reading should then be recorded (title + pages) in the Learning Diary. We would kindly ask parents to sign/initial the record.

The children will receive Dojo-Points for daily reading.

Recommended reading books for Year 5:

Best Books for Year 5 | Ages 9-10 | BooksForTopics

Expertly selected books for 9 and 10 year old children (lovereading4kids.co.uk)

Reading Activities:

Once the children have completed reading a book, they then choose an activity related to the book (e.g. book-review, letter to the author, sequel, character profile, alternative cover etc.). This activity is completed in the child’s Reading Journal. Our wonderful teaching assistants will then check, feedback and record the completion of these activities.

The children will receive multiple Dojo-Points to reward exceptional work.

PE:

Our current P.E. days are Tuesday (Miss Handley) and Wednesday (Mr Grundey).

 

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Week beginning 4th June 2019

June 3, 2019

Maths – This week in maths, we shall be learning the following:

*   I can calculate the area of compound shapes (Recap).

*   I can estimate and approximate area (Continue & finish).

*   I can identify different 2D shapes and describe their properties (Recap Y4).

English – We shall be starting our new unit, diary writing. This week we shall be identifying the key features, editing an existing diary and then planning and writing a diary entry based on Sports Day.

PE – It is sports day this Thursday. Any child travelling with the school must arrive promptly and in their PE kit.

French – We shall be continuing to look at the unit of clothes!

Music – Soundstart lessons will continue this week.

Reading – We shall be continuing with our class text, Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll this week. We shall be basing our comprehension sessions around our class text.

Geography – We shall be starting our new topic, Rivers!

Art – We shall be looking at our new unit, landscape artists.

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Sports Day – 6th June

Week beginning 20th May 2019

May 22, 2019

Maths – This week in maths, we shall be learning the following:

perimeter of shapes, calculating missing lengths and the area of irregular/compound shapes.

English – We shall be finishing off our biography unit by choosing an ‘inspirational woman’ to focus on. In our SPAG sessions we shall be looking at uplevelling our writing. As with our previous learning through this unit, Cannon Street Class will be taught by Miss Blackford and London Bridge Class will be taught by Mr Grundey.

Computing – We shall be finishing up typing and designing our travel brochures.

PE -There is swimming this week.

RE –We shall starting our new unit with Mrs Forde, Judaism.

French – We shall be continuing to look at the unit of clothes!

Science – Continuing with forces, we shall be looking at air resistance.

Music – Soundstart lessons will return this week.

Reading – We have started our new class text, Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll this week.

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End of half term – 24th May

 

Children return to school on 4th June 2019.

Week beginning 13th May 2019

May 15, 2019

London Bridge news – 

Due to SATs week, we shall be relocating to the music room for our morning lessons. Children may still place their coats and school bags in our normal cloakroom but be in the music room, promptly, for the register to be taken at 9am.

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Maths – This week in maths, we shall be learning the following:

two way tables, timetables and perimeter of shapes.

English – We shall be finishing off our biography unit by choosing an ‘inspirational woman’ to focus on. In our SPAG sessions we shall be looking at the spelling rule of words ending in -cious and -tious. As with our previous learning through this unit, Cannon Street Class will be taught by Miss Blackford and London Bridge Class will be taught by Mr Grundey.

Computing – We shall be finishing up typing and designing our travel brochures.

PE -There is no swimming this week..

RE –We shall starting our new unit with Mrs Forde, Judaism.

French – We shall be continuing to look at the unit of clothes!

Science – Continuing with forces, we shall be looking at gravity and Isaac Newton.

There will be no Soundstart sessions this week. 

Reading – We have started our new class text, Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll this week.

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End of half term – 24th May

There will be no swimming on the 14th May. 

Week beginning 6th May 2019

May 8, 2019

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Maths – This week in maths, we shall be learning the following:

  1. I can read and interpret line graphs.
  2. I can draw line graphs.
  3. I can use line graphs to solve problems.
  4. I can read and interpret tables.​

English – We shall be continuing our unit, biographies. We shall be writing and editing our biographies about Albert Einstein.

Computing – We shall be finishing up typing and designing our travel brochures.

PE -Swimming resumes this week. Please ensure PE and swimming kits are in school.

RE –We shall starting our new unit with Mrs Forde, Judaism.

Geography – We shall be looking at the location of Whitby, in relation to the UK.

Science – Continuing with forces, we shall be looking at gravity and Isaac Newton.

Music lessons will be taught by our Soundstart teacher, Mr Regan.

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End of half term – 24th May

There will be no swimming on the 14th May. 

Week beginning 29th April 2019

April 29, 2019

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Maths – This week in maths, we shall be learning the following:

I can add decimals with the same amount of decimal places across 1.

I can subtract decimals with the same amount of decimal places across 1.

I can add decimals with different amounts of decimal places.

I can subtract decimals with different amounts of decimal places.

I can add and subtract wholes and decimals.

English – We shall be continuing our unit, biographies. We shall be editing an existing biography and planning a biography about Albert Einstein.

Computing – We shall be finishing up typing and designing our travel brochures.

PE -Swimming resumes this week. Please ensure PE and swimming kits are in school.

RE –We shall starting our new unit with Mrs Forde.

Geography – We shall be looking at the location of Whitby, in relation to the UK.

Art – We shall be looking at different perspectives.

Music lessons will be taught by our Soundstart teacher, Mr Regan.

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End of half term – 24th May

Week beginning 23rd April 2019

April 22, 2019

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Maths – This week in maths, we shall be learning the following:

  1. I can add decimals within 1.

  2. I can subtract decimals within 1.

  3. I can find complements to 1.

  4. I can add and subtract decimals with the same amount of decimal places.

English – We shall be starting our new unit, biographies. We shall be identifying the key features of the text, editing an existing biography and giving our presentations based on our research over the Easter holiday/

Computing – We shall be finishing up typing and designing our travel brochures.

PE -There are no swimming lessons this week. Swimming resumes w/b 29th April. Please ensure PE kits are in school.

RE –We shall starting our new unit with Mrs Forde.

Geography – We shall be looking at the location of Whitby, in relation to the UK.

Music lessons will be taught by our Soundstart teacher, Mr Regan.

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End of half term – 24th May

Week beginning 1st April 2019

March 31, 2019

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Maths – This week in maths, we shall be learning the following:

1.    I can apply my fraction knowledge in an assessment situation.

(2.    I can review my assessment and skills.)

3.    I can use my fraction knowledge to understand percentages (over 100).

4.    I can convert percentages into fractions and decimals.

5.    I can find equivalent fractions-percentages-decimals.​

English – We shall be looking at instruction writing this week. As a cross curricular approach, we shall be making Hot Cross Buns. We shall be focusing on the specific grammatical features associates with instruction writing.

Science – We shall be looking at changing states of material this week. Linking with our DT, we shall be looking at the process of bread – in a range of forms.

Computing – We shall be creating typing up and designing our travel brochures.

PE – We have swimming on Tuesdays and our PE session on Thursdays.

RE –We shall be looking at the Easter story, with Mrs Forde.

French – We shall be continuing to look at the weather.

Art – We shall be drawing images from photographs using chalks, based on areas around Whitby.

Geography – We shall be looking at the location of Whitby, in relation to the UK.

Music lessons will be taught by our Soundstart teacher, Mr Regan.

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Back to school – 23rd April

Week beginning 25th March 2019

March 27, 2019

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Maths – This week in maths, we shall be learning the following:

1.     I can review my learning I: I can compare and order fractions.

2.    I can review my learning II: I can add and subtract fractions.

3.    I can apply my fraction knowledge in an assessment situation.

4.    I can convert fractions (over 100) into percentages.

5.    I can convert percentages into fractions and decimals.​

English – We shall be finishing our new topic, Travel Brochures. We will be designing, writing and creating our travel guides.

Science – We shall be having a Science week this week, looking all at the properties and changing states of materials.

Computing – We shall be creating typing up and designing our travel brochures.

PE – We have swimming on Tuesdays and our PE session on Thursdays.

French – We shall be continuing to look at the weather.

Art – We shall be drawing images from photographs, based on areas around Whitby.

Geography – We shall be looking at the location of Whitby, in relation to the UK.

Music lessons will be taught by our Soundstart teacher, Mr Regan.

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27th March – Spring term parents’ evening

Week beginning 18th March 2019

March 15, 2019

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Maths – This week in maths, we shall be learning the following:

I can read, write and order decimals.

I can round decimals with two places.

I can multiply and divide decimals by 10, 100 and 1000.

I can solve problems with decimals (up to 3 places).

English – We shall be finishing our new topic, Travel Brochures. We will be designing, writing and creating our travel guides.

Science – We shall be finishing our lifecycle unit this week with a plant exaperiment.

Computing – We shall be creating a quiz this week, on Scratch!

Reading – We shall be writing our book review for Room 13, by Robert Swindells. Thanks to the Friends of Howard for our lovely class sets of books so that we can all read along! Image result for room 13

PE – We have swimming on Tuesdays and our PE session on Thursdays.

French – We shall be continuing to look at the weather.

Art – We shall be drawing images from photographs, based on areas around Whitby.

Geography – We shall be looking at the location of Whitby, in relation to the UK.

Music lessons will be taught by our Soundstart teacher, Mr Regan.

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21st & 27th March – Spring term parents’ evening

Week beginning 11th March 2019

March 8, 2019

Well done to the whole of Year 5 – and their parents –  for all those lovely costumes and “book in a box” activities for World Book Day! We were completely blown away!

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Maths – We shall be continuing our unit of fractions. This week, our learning objectives are:

I can find fractions of an amounts

I can convert between fractions and decimals.

I can read, write and order decimals.​

English – We shall be continuing our new topic, Travel Brochures. We will be researching, planning and writing our own guide to Whitby.

Science – We shall be looking at comparing life cycles.

Computing – We shall be creating a quiz this week, on Scratch!

Reading – We shall be continuing our new class novel, Room 13 by Robert Swindells. Thanks to the Friends of Howard for our lovely class sets of books so that we can all read along! Image result for room 13

PE – We have swimming on Tuesdays and our PE session on Thursdays.

French – We shall be continuing to look at the weather.

Art – We shall be drawing images from photographs, based on areas around Whitby.

Geography – We shall be looking at the location of Whitby, in relation to the UK.

Music lessons will be taught by our Soundstart teacher, Mr Regan.

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21st & 27th March – Spring term parents’ evening