Bikeability

What a super start to our busy term! Well done to everyone who complete the Bikeability Level 2 course this week!

Communication Letter Summer Term 2018

Friday 27^th April 2018

Dear Parents/ Carers of Year 5 Pupils,

Welcome back! We hope you are well rested and ready for an action-packed term! We have already started this busy term with a fantastic week of ‘Bikeability Training’.

Summer Term Curriculum

Here is an outline of some of the areas of learning that we will be covering in class this term. 

Maths	Measure (time, volume, distance, perimeter and area) Geometry (angles, reflections and translations, 3D shapes) Roman Numerals Problem solving
English	Biographies and Autobiographies Play scripts Narrative Poetry SPaG
Science	Living things and their habitats Life Cycles
R.E.	Why is the Torah so important to Jewish people? What matters most to Humanists and Christians?
Computing	Spreadsheets
P.E.	Gymnastics Rounders and Cricket Swimming (after half term)
Topic (History, geog, art, D.T.)	Mysterious Remains Enterprise

How you can help at home

Homework – Please note change of day

Year 5 children will continue to have one Current Affairs homework weekly. However, as a change from last term, we will ask for it to be handed in on Tuesdays. The children will also receive a set of maths facts to learn every week. These will be tested on Fridays. In addition, the children will continue to learn a spelling rule each week. They will receive a list of spellings that follow this rule every Monday and will need to learn these for a weekly spelling test on a Friday.

Please find attached to this letter the half termly spellings the children need to learn at home (and what they scored when tested on these spellings recently). These will not be taught in lessons and will be tested at the end of the half term. Thank you for your support with this – it makes a big difference. If your child has any trouble with homework, all they need do is come and ask us (where possible before the due date).  It is also appreciated if you could help encourage children to take responsibility for their own homework.

Reading

Please continue to read regularly with your child. It is so important as children become more fluent with their reading that they understand what they have read. Please ask them questions about the characters and plot to check their understanding and encourage them to express their own opinions about a story/book. Please also encourage them to read aloud with appropriate intonation and expression, paying careful attention to punctuation marks used by the author.

Planners

Please could you check your child’s planner at the end of each week and sign the bottom of the page. Your child should take responsibility for asking you to check and sign it. The children will record their weekly spelling, times tables and maths facts tests scores in their planners. We will collect the homework planners each Friday.

P.E

The children will have a P.E. session on Tuesday and Thursday afternoons. Sometimes our timetable has to change so P.E. kit should be in school each day please. It would be useful for the children to have both outdoor trainers and plimsolls (or clean trainers) as part of their kit so that we can use both the hall and outdoors.

Planners and reading books

Please have these in school each day. Thank you.

Enterprise Project

We are hoping to run an enterprise project later this term. More details to follow.

Trip to Compton Verney

We are looking forward to our rescheduled trip to Compton Verney on Wednesday 2^nd May.

Please don’t hesitate to come and see us if you have any questions.

Yours sincerely,

Mrs Michelle Parkin and Mrs Marika Hortop