Week beginning 21st October 2024

Well done for yet another smashing week! We created our very own moving mechanical systems this week to bring our Greek mythical creatures to life using linkages and levers and we studied volcanoes and lakes in Greece. 

Science Award Ceremony...VOTE VOTE VOTE

Last year, we had a number of winners in the National Science Competition ‘If you were an engineer what would you do?’ Well… Emily Jackson (now in year 4), who won the previous year and had her prototype for the ‘seed drone’ made up by the engineers at Southampton university, has been nominated for the prestigious MacRobert award in Glasgow! We are so proud of her and her wonderful achievements. You can vote for Emily’s prototype on the link below. Emily’s is the last one, under Southampton University. https://www.primaryengineer.com/primary-engineer-macrobert-medal-public-vote/

Important dates and messages:

• Homework Museum - Thursday 24 October @ 2:15p.m in school
• Saturday 9th November - Open Morning - 10am - noon
• Tuesday 19th November - Pavilion Carol Concert - Glee Club
• Monday 25th November – School Open Evening/Book Look – 3.15pm – 4.15pm
• Tuesday 26th November – Online Parent Consultation Evening – 4pm – 7pm
• Wednesday 27th November - Online Parent Consultation Evening – 3.30pm – 6pm

Worship theme:

Light – Clocks go back Sunday 27th October.

“I am the Light of the world; he who follows Me will not walk in the darkness, but will have the Light of life.” - John 8:12.

Curriculum:

In English, we will be recapping the features of a myth and beginning to plan and write our own myth! Very exciting!! If we have time, we will publish them!!

This week, we will be moving onto multiplication in maths and learning how to apply this to reasoning and problem solving questions. 

We will FINALLY be meeting our buddies next week and will be spending some time getting to know them, reading with them and showing them our work from this term. 

In PSHE, we will be learning how some media/online content promotes stereotypes.

To end our fantastic project, we will be creating a double-page spread of all of our superb learning throughout this term, using our key vocabulary and sticky knowledge. 

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:

• Project overview and Project homework - please find links to the relevant information below.
• MyMaths - we will be setting 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. 
• Reading books - we would like to remind everyone to have a reading book in school - this can be a school or home book. We would like all children to be able to share recommendations and reviews of what we have read recently. We are displaying books that we've read in the classroom to get children talking about the stories they love and to 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 be drawing a raffle to win a trip to Costa. You have to be in it to win it! There are activities in the reading records that can be completed at home for fun! 

Reading:

This term we are reading 'Who Let the Gods out' by Maz Evans, and we are using the following Designation Reader sentence stems to start our answers. We are focusing on a different skill each lesson, covering 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 and using more discreet learning techniques and applying the use of 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.”