Week beginning 7th July 2025

Our project for this half-term is "Bournemouth to Brazil".

Well done for such a marvellous week full of smiles and laughter and maybe a bit too much sun?! Well done for handling the heat and keeping your cool whilst we delve into our fantastic new topic. We love learning all about the environment and seeing just how devastating deforestation can be. Obviously, we are all very shocked to see the statistics and have enjoyed learning about what we can do to help! We also loved learning how to get someone into the recovery position if they were ever unconscious and you were waiting for help. 

Important dates and messages:

Worship theme:

Curriculum.

In English, we are going to be continuing looking at diary entries linking to a popular animal advert all about the orangutans and the use of Palm Oil. We will be building up to writing our own diary entry in the character of the young orangutan. 

In maths we are going to be looking at reflection and lines of symmetry and also round off our translation and coordinates learning. 

In computing we will be linking all of our learning together using concept maps about human and physical geography of Bournemouth and Brazil.

In PSHE  we will be looking at our emotions and worries in the build up to moving onto Year 6 and what we can do when we have big feelings. We will also be looking at our Year 5 sex and relationships curriculum on Wednesday. 

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 'Kensuke's Kingdom' by Michael Morpurgo 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.”