Author: year5

Week 4 – Monday 29th January 2018

Homework Due Thursday 1st February.

2 x 20 minute sessions on Reading Plus 

1 x 20 minute session on Times Table Rock-stars.

Thank you to everyone who has successfully managed to log onto Reading Plus at home.  

A letter was sent home last week with details of how to log on, along with your child’s username and password. Please let me know if you are having any problems. This is a great resource, which will really help your child’s fluency and comprehension.

It is expected that your child will access Reading Plus at least twice weekly.

Welldone to Maple class who won the battle of the bands on Times Table Rockstars.

This week Roxy P was awarded the title of the quickest responder!!  Who will be next to achieve recognition of their hardwork?

Maple Awards

Well-done to Frankie S for being awarded Star of the Week and to Tommy A and Frankie S for showing ‘Perseverance’ and being nominated for our ‘Class Value Award.

Willow Awards

Week 4 – Monday 20th November

Road Safety Week

To help keep you safer on the roads all children will have the chance this term to take a ‘Road safety skill tests’.  Children will have the opportunity to take the test at bronze, silver or gold.  

More information about this will follow shortly, but in the meantime why not brush up on road safety awareness by reading Tales of the Road .

 

Mathletics competition

How many points can you collect this week? You can earn points for completing activities linked to your learning in class (Place value, the 4 operations and fractions) or by playing against ‘the  world’. Good luck.

 Homework – Week 3 Homework

Due Wednesday 22nd November

Week 3

Please can you collect newspapers from home and bring them into school. We need a variety of newspapers and magazines for an art project as our topic this term is ‘Making The News’.

Thanks for your continued support.

Year 5 team.

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To draw attention to the theme ‘all different, all equal’ we would the children on Tuesday 14th October to come into school in full school uniform wearing odd socks.

Thanks for your continued support.

Year 5 team.

A massive congratulations to everyone in Year 5 that took part in the Cross Country Competition at Dymchurch Primary School last week. All children had to run a distance of 1600m and showed great determination and perseverance. Unfortunately we just missed out on getting a medal. Well done again, you should all be proud of yourselves 🙂

 

 

 

Thanks for your continued support.

Year 5 Team.

Please login to Oxford Owl to access free reading books online.

You will have a login stuck at the front of your child’s reading record.

Willow:

Username: yr5_willow
Password: willow123

Thanks,

Year 5 team.

Mathletics should now be up and running again.

Pupil logins have been stuck in your child’s homework diary on the back page.

This is a great resource to support your child at home.

You can access Mathletics on a computer, laptop and a tablet.

Each week we will be adding new tasks and we will be checking to see who our Mathletics champions of Year 5 are!

http://uk.mathletics.com/

If you have any issues or questions please speak to your class teacher.

Thanks for your continued support.

Year 5 team.

As preparation for our next topic unit Making The News (Term 2) could we kindly ask you to collect as many examples of local and national newspapers, as well as consumer and interest magazines (appropriate to the age of your child).

Thanks for your continued support.

Year 5 team.

Well done to everyone that is reading and recording on their bookmarks for Buster’s Book club. Who can take the KS2 trophy this week,Willow or Maple?

Just a polite reminder that you should be reading a minimum of 4 times a week at home.

We celebrated World Space Week in Science this week.

In groups we chose a planet that we wanted to research and created a persuasive argument why our chosen planet should be chosen next for human exploration. We then presented our findings to the class and selected the most persuasive argument as the winner.

Thanks for your continued support.

Year 5 team.