Term 4 Curriculum Map

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Book Week 2019

Well done to everyone who dressed up as a book character. What a great day! Check out some of our costumes below.

 

 

On Thursday (wk1) both classes took part in their last Hockey coaching session.

A huge thank you to John from the Shepway Sports Trust who made the sessions fun and active 🙂

This term our PE focus is on Gymnastics and Netball.

Tri-Golf – Week 3

We are timetabled for some exciting sporting opportunities such as Tri-Golf and American Football taster sessions!  Watch this space for more information.

Your child will need to keep their full PE KIT in school at all times. 

 

Ancient Greek – building replicas of Ancient Greek Temples.

As part of our super start for this topic we explored and designed Ancient Greek buildings such as the Parthenon and Temple of Poseidon.

We focused on the structure and design of Greek temples and used junk modelling to replicate them.

After construction, we carefully selected the colours, painted and decorated our buildings.

This term we will be learning all about Ancient Greece.

Thank you to those of you who have brought in junk modelling materials for us to start creating replicas of Ancient Greek Temples.

www.bbc.com/bitesize/topics/z87tn39

 

Week 4 : Well done to Daniel (Willow Class) who was awarded Star of the week for showing perseverance and super effort in all areas. 

Week 3 : Well done to Angel P (Maple Class) who was awarded Star of the week for great effort with her English.

Week 2 : Well done to… (Willow Class) who was awarded Star of the week for …

Week 1 : Well done to Piper (Maple Class) who was awarded Star of the week for her hard work and perseverance in English.

SPAG

Spelling

Click here for this unit’s word bank : Unit5

Unit_6

 

Welcome to Term 4 

On Thursday both classes took part in their last Hockey coaching session.

A huge thank you to John from the Shepway Sports Trust who made the sessions fun and active 🙂

This term our PE focus is on Gymnastics and Netball.

We are also timetabled for some exciting sporting opportunities such as Tri-Golf and American Football taster sessions!  Watch this space for more information.  Your child will need to keep their full PE KIT in school at all times. 

This term we will be learning all about Ancient Greece.

Thank you to those of you who have brought in junk modelling materials for us to start creating replicas of Ancient Greek Temples.

www.bbc.com/bitesize/topics/z87tn39

 

Week 1 Well done to Piper (Maple Class) who was awarded Star of the week for her hard work and perseverance in English. 

 

 

 

SPAG

Spelling

This week we have been looking at the prefix inter-.

Click here for this unit’s word bank : Unit5

 

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Welcome to week 3

Hello, our spelling focus for week 3 and 4 is on adding the prefix auto-.

Unit 3

 Week 3 Term 3 was awarded to ????? (Maple).

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Welcome to week 2

Hello, our spelling focus for week 2 and 3 is on words ending in zhuh spelt -sure.

Unit 2

Homework – Due Wednesday 23rd January

Week2_Homework

 Week 2 Term 3 was awarded to Ellie May (Willow).

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Welcome to week 1

Spelling

Our spelling focus for week 1 and 2 is on adding the prefix mis- and revising un-, in-, dis-.

Your child will be formally tested every Wednesday. Please encourage you child to learn these words.

 

Unit 1

 Week 1 Term 3 was awarded to Harry D for his excellent effort in Topic.  

Harry worked hard to produce a non-chronological report all about Antarctica. 

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Happy New Year  and welcome to Term 3

Year 5_curriculum map Term 3

Spelling Focus

This week our spelling focus is on adding the prefix mis- and revising un-, in-, dis-.

Wk1_Unit1 Here is a word bank of the spellings we will be revising and learning in class.

 

ClassDojo

They are still a few parents who are not connected to ClassDojo.  We have both issued invitations today.  Please let us know if you have any problems connecting.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Book Lists

Hello, a few parents, at parents evening, asked about books we would recommend for their child to read.

The link below is to a great site, which regularly publishes book reviews and recommendation lists. 🙂

www.booktrust.org.uk/books-and-reading/our-recommendations

 

 Friday 7th December: Congratulations to Harry D’A  of Maple Class for being awarded ‘Star of the Week’ for his excellent effort and hard work in Maths. 

 

Spelling lists

Every day we revise and learn spellings.  These spellings are taken in the first instance, from the Year 3/4 and Year 5/6 spelling lists (National Curriculum).  The lists were given out at parents evening but in case they have been misplaced you can download them from here.  Daily revision of these spelling will really help your child reach age expected standards.

Word-list-5-and-6

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 Friday 8th November : Congratulations to Angel P of Maple Class for being awarded ‘Star of the Week’ for her excellent effort and attitude towards her learning. 

Please remember to record your reading on your bookmark or your reading log.

 

HOME LEARNING FOR TERM 2: Term2_homework

TTRS UPDATE:

Our current leaders are still Kyra (Maple) and Samuel (Willow), with an astounding average speed of 1.33 and 0.96 seconds to answer a question correctly.

Can anyone knock them off the top spot? 

 

 

Welcome to Term 2 

 

We hope you have a great holiday and look forward to seeing you all back in term 2.

 

Congratulations to Maple class for winning Buster Book Club.

An astounding amount of minutes were recorded with nearly everyone reading for at least 20 minutes.

I hope you all enjoy your swimming vouchers!

Congratulations to Maddison in Maple class for being awarded this week’s ‘Star of the Week’. 

 

So many Year 5 children were awarded certificates for their efforts with Times Table Rock Stars.  Our current leaders are Kyra (Maple) and Samuel (Willow), with an astounding average speed of 1.11 and 0.96 seconds to answer a question correctly.

Can anyone knock them off the top spot? 

 

 

Just a reminder that this term’s home learning can be found by clicking on the link below.

Due 15th October 2018.

Homework_Term_1

Hello and Welcome 🙂 

Hello and welcome to the Year 5 web pages for Willow and Maple.  On these pages you will find information about what is going on in our classrooms and your child’s learning.

 

Congratulations to Daisy in Willow class for being awarded this week’s ‘Star of the Week’.  

 

 

This term’s home learning can be found by clicking on the link below.

Homework_Term_1

Welcome back!

We have had a busy start to the new term, may we take this opportunity to wish you a Happy New Year and all the best for 2018.

Our school value this term is

We have a short, yet fun packed term ahead of us, the children have already demonstrated perseverance by learning their T4W text for this term.

They have learnt (with actions) the text for facts about the T Rex, this forms part of our literacy and our IPC topic. The text is here if you want to support your child. They will be able to tell you the first two paragraphs.

The children went to tell Abacus Nursery children all about the T Rex this term…. photos coming soon!

We have changed our home-learning format, you should have all received a home learning grid on Friday and resources to help you, please choose one activity each week, if you need help just let the class teacher know. Here is a copy of the grid.

 

 

 

The children have enjoyed their last week of term. The children had great fun performing the Nativity to all the parents! We have also been busy making Christmas cards, decorating Christmas biscuits for our Christmas parties and making hats for our Christmas dinner.

We hope you have a fantastic Christmas and a Happy New Year

From The Year 1 Team

The children had great fun at the KS1 Christmas Disco last Friday. They looked gorgeous in their party outfits, and definitely taught the teachers and staff some new dance moves…

We are very proud of our Year 1 fishermen who won these trophies for catching a Bass and Cod in a local competition.

As you can tell they were really excited to tell the children all about their win!

We wrote our letters to Santa, telling him about what we have done this year to ensure we are on the ‘nice list’ and asking for a present. We then went to Sandra and bought our stamps to stick on our letters. Finally we went to the post office and posted our letters.

In literacy we watched this video looking at what happens to our letters after we’ve posted them. The children then wrote instructions about how to post your letter and a recount about the journey our letters go on.

This week we began reading the Christmas Jolly-Postman.

One of the characters inside the story is Humpty Dumpty, who we had to send a card to because he was in hospital.. again. Miss Durham lead an exciting experiment that enabled the children to use what they’ve learnt about material properties this term to test which would be the best material to stop Humpty from getting hurt again. The children had to then test their materials and explain why it worked – or in most cases didn’t!

 

 

 

Well, what a week we have had!

Our topic this term has been ‘A Day in the life’ and this week we explored this topic in relation to jobs that people have. We were lucky enough to visit La Vinci. Lehel’s dad kindly invited both Badgers and Otters class to visit his restaurant. He told us all about the job he does, how he has to continue to learn and train and do tests on H&S, then he told us about how he shops for the ingredients, prepares them and finally makes the pizzas. All the children loved making their own pizzas – and enjoyed eating them even more 🙂

If that wasn’t enough we were also lucky enough to have a visit from New Romney Fire Brigade.

They bought in the fire engine and explained in detail all the equipment they had, and how they used it. They let the children hold some items and we were even allowed to go into the cab too! Thank you so much, we had such a great afternoon. The children then did some lovely writing about their experience.

This week we looked at 3D shapes, we hunted around the school to find shapes and created our own using lots of different methods!

The children showed lots of perseverance as they tried to make cubes and cuboids out of play-doh and spaghetti.

We have some exciting new things to introduce this term!

Who will be the most improved times table rockstar and have their picture up in the hall AND wear the rockstar dress up in school?

Finally, I will see you on Friday at the school Christmas fair!

Many thanks for your ongoing support,

Miss Sisk and Mrs Hall.