Welcome to London Bridge Class
Class Teacher: Miss S. Winser (Howard’s Curriculum Lead)
Teaching Assistant: Mrs R. Verma
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 and Wednesday with Miss Handley.
[dropshadowbox align=”none” effect=”lifted-both” width=”auto” height=”” background_color=”#ffffff” border_width=”15″ border_color=”#17f92b” ]Hello and welcome back to Howard! We hope you have had a lovely summer holidays. Year 5 is an important year and we have already hit the ground running in terms of our learning, but first let’s introduce the Year 5 team of 2017/18:
London Bridge
Miss Blackford – Class Teacher
Ms Jones – Teaching Assistant
Mrs Adams – PPA Cover (Thursday mornings)
Cannon Street Bridge
Mr Grundey – Class Teacher
Miss Allcorn – Teaching Assistant
Mrs Swift – PPA Cover (Thursday mornings)
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Maths – This week it’s all about developing our problem solving skills. We shall be starting to focus on number and place value, whilst working on systematic approaches to solving numerical problems.
English – 3, 2, 1… BLAST OFF! This week we are focusing on independently writing a science fiction text. Special consideration is being given to the writing process, including planning, writing and editing.
Reading – We want to know what our classes’ favourite reading books are so throughout the week we will be asking them to complete a book review to encourage a member of the class to read their book.
PSHE – As Howard is a Rights Respecting School we shall be focusing specifically on writing our class charter together assessing what our rights and responsibilities are within the classroom. We have also planned a selection of team challenges for Friday afternoon where we shall be combining the classes and focusing on our core values.
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Children can enter the Year 5 classes from 8:50 am providing their class teacher is in the room. Should you wish to pass a message to us in the morning please do so via your child’s homework diary or the school office as early morning times are reserved for group intervention work.
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Tuesday 12th September – Space exhibition from 3:30 in the hall.[/dropshadowbox]
This week we will be focusing on:
Maths– We shall be recapping our knowledge of the Year 5 expectations and plugging any existing gaps whilst going through our recent maths papers.
Reading- We shall be evaluating our learning in Year 5 this year – discussing what are targets are for Year 6.
Writing- We shall be continuing with our unit, which is linked to our history, of myths and legends. We shall be watching Hercules to identify the key features of a myth/legend. We shall also be revising the Year 5 expected level of grammar.
PE –Swimming has finished! Year 5 shall be running KS1 sports day on Tuesday 11th as part of our ongoing Sports Leadership programme.
History – Mrs Adams shall be continuing with learning all about Greek food.
SRE – We shall continue to learn about how our bodies change during puberty.
Important information/ dates
Tuesday 11th July: KS1 Sports Day – please ensure your child has plenty of water, sun cream and a packed lunch.
Wednesday 12th July: New date for Soundstart concert
Thursday 20th July: Last day for children