Week beginning 30th June 2025

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

Well done for everyone with their enthusiastic approach to their transition morning. Some children can find today tricky, but as always Year 5 handled the situation with grace and positivity. Well done all.

Important dates and messages:

Worship theme:

Relationship With “Beyond”

Curriculum.

In English, we are going to be looking at diary entries linking to a popular animal advert. 

In maths we are going to be looking at decimals. 

In geography we will be comparing the New Forest and Amazon Rainforest and discussing deforestation.

In PSHE  we will be looking at protecting the environment. 

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.”