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

1. I can multiply unit-fractions by integers.
2. I can multiply non-unit fractions by integers.
3. I can multiply mixed numbers by integers.
4. I can find fractions of an amount.

English – We shall be starting our new topic, Travel Brochures. We will be identifying key features and persuasive language.

Science – We shall be looking at comparing life cycles.

Computing – We shall be practising our coding skills using Hour of Code this week.

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! 

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

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

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

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7th March – World Book Day

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

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

I can subtract fractions with related denominators.​

I can subtract mixed number fraction.

English – We shall writing an independent warning dream.

Science – We shall be looking at comparing life cycles.

Computing – We shall be practising our coding skills using Hour of Code this week.

Reading – We shall be starting 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! We shall also be writing a book review on Wonder. 

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

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

The children in Year 5 will be starting swimming lessons next half term at Whitgift school, as part of their P.E curriculum, on the week beginning 25^th February 2019.

Please can you make sure that they bring a swimming costume (preferably NOT a bikini for girls and NOT long shorts for boys), towel and, if they have long hair, a swimming hat all in a bag that can be easily identifiable. Children will be taught how to swim by 2 qualified swimming instructors including a teacher from Whitgift school and no prior knowledge of how to swim is needed.

Children will be assessed the first week and then put into suitable groups with no child entering the deep end unless they can swim a length unaided. A trained lifeguard will also be present.

Please remind your child to remember to bring their swimming costume into school on a Tuesday morning every week unless told not to.  It is important that your child attends these lessons so that they become competent swimmers which is a necessary life skill as they get older.  Whitgift School charge us to take the children swimming but we do not pass these costs on to you.  Your child needs to understand that swimming lessons can cost anything up to £100 per term so by getting them free through school, it is an opportunity not be missed!

We would also ask that your child does not bring any aerosol deodorants or sprays when going swimming.  The changing rooms are small and sprays can aggravate children who have breathing difficulties.

If there are any other concerns, please don’t hesitate to speak to Miss Handley.

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

1. I can add fractions with related denominators.
2. I can add fractions crossing one.
3. I can add mixed number fractions.
4. I can subtract fractions with related denominators.​

English – We shall be continuing to look at a short clip, situated at Dracula’s Abbey – in Whitby. We shall be using all of our knowledge on how to build suspense in writing to write an effective warning dream.

Science – We shall be looking at mammals this week.

Computing – We shall be continuing to look at Online Safety, specifically the symptoms of video game addiction. We shall also be learning how to build a Ghostbusters animation.

Reading – We shall be starting 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! We shall also be writing a book review on Wonder. 

PE – We have PE lessons on Tuesdays and Thursday. Please make sure your child has some tracksuit bottoms/leggings as we shall be going outside on Thursdays.

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

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

1. I can compare and order fractions greater than 1.
2. I can convert between improper and mixed number fractions.
3. I can add fractions with related denominators (incl. crossing 1).
4. I can add 3 or more fractions crossing 1.

English – We shall be looking at a short clip, situated at Dracula’s Abbey – in Whitby. We shall be using all of our knowledge on how to build suspense in writing to write an effective warning dream.

Science – We shall be looking at mammals this week.

Computing – We shall be continuing to look at Online Safety, specifically the symptoms of video game addiction. We shall also be learning how to build a Ghostbusters animation.

Reading – We shall be starting 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! We shall also be writing a book review on Wonder. 

PE – We have PE lessons on Tuesdays and Thursday. Please make sure your child has some tracksuit bottoms/leggings as we shall be going outside on Thursdays.

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

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Maths – We shall start our new and exciting unit of fractions. This week, we shall be specifically looking at:

1. I can explain that fractions are parts of a whole. (10 sweets, 5 are cherry, 3 are pineapple, 2 pear)
2. I can count up and down in fractions.
3. I can compare and order fractions with related denominators. (simplifying)
4. I can compare and order fractions with non-related denominators. (some simplifying)​

English – We shall be looking at how to plan, write and edit a warning dream – based on the current events in our thriller of a class read, Room 13!

Science – We shall be starting our new topic Living Things and Their Habitats.

Computing – We shall be continuing to look at Online Safety, specifically the symptoms of video game addiction. We shall also be learning how to build a Space animation on Scratch.

Reading – We shall be starting 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! We shall also be writing a book review on Wonder. 

PE – We have PE lessons on Tuesdays and Thursday. Please make sure your child has some tracksuit bottoms/leggings as we shall be going outside on Thursdays.

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31st January – Trip to Polka Theatre.

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Maths – Revising the formal methods of multiplication and division.

English – We shall be starting our new unit, warning stories, based on our new class read – Room 13!

Science – We shall be revising our key facts from our Space topic.

Computing – We shall be looking at Online Safety, specifically the symptoms of video game addiction. We shall also be looking at how to build a Space animation on Scratch.

Reading – We shall be starting 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! We shall also be writing a book review on Wonder. 

History – We shall be finishing off our innovation of Pandora’s box – with a modern twist!

PE – We have PE lessons on Tuesdays and Thursday. Please make sure your child has some tracksuit bottoms/leggings as we shall be going outside on Thursdays.

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31st January – Trip to Polka Theatre.

Welcome back! We hope you all had an enjoyable break over the Christmas holidays.

What are we learning this week?

Maths – Recapping on formal methods of multiplication and division.

English – Using a picture stimulus as a writing prompt for our new unit. We shall be using the 5 senses and figurative language to build tension to a mystery story.

Science – We shall be revising our key facts from our Space topic.

Computing – We shall be looking at Online Safety, specifically the symptoms of video game addicition.

Reading – We are hoping to finish our class novel, Wonder, within the next two weeks.

History – We shall be writing an innovation of Pandora’s Box, set in modern times.

Key dates –

31st January – Trip to Polka Theatre. Please make sure that you have paid and returned the permission slip by 11th January.

What will we be learning this week?

Maths – Finishing off our calculation strategies for division.

English – Innovating our own ‘I am poem’.

French – Speaking and listening exercise about our pets.

History – Innovating our own Greek myth.

Key dates

18th December – Christmas Performance at St. Andrew’s Church (2:15pm)

19th December – Class parties. Children can wear their own clothes.

20th December – Last day of term.

We return to school on 7th January.

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Maths:
This week, we shall be looking at mutliplying and dividing by 10,100 and 1000.

English:

This week, we shall be starting our new poetry unit. We shall be reciting and innovating ‘I am…’ poems.

Music:

Our music lessons will be used to practise for our Cristmas performance on 18th December.

RE:

Mrs Forde will be finishing off our unit on Christianity, this week.

Computing:

We shall be looking at word processing skills and how to use features to write a newspaper report.

French:

We shall be looking at the unit of pets this week, As-tu un animal? We shall be completing a listening exercise and starting to round off the topic!

History:

We shall be continuing to looking at Pandora’s box; retelling and innovating the greek myth.

Christmas Jumper Day – 14th November

Christmas performance – 18th December