Year 5 Summer 1 Term

Welcome Back! We hope you had a restful Easter break.

This half term we are going to be very busy. Our key focus will be to inspire and empower our children, so that they strive to reach their goals and dreams! Our English lessons will be focused on The Paperbag Prince, by Colin Thompson. This book offers important messages about wasteful cultures, hope and optimism. Linked to our English work, in Geography we will be looking at the world and ask where our power and food come from. Children will have the chance to consider how their actions impact on others around the world, and consider changes they could make.  In Science, children will focus their skills using a range of enquires showing their understanding of fair testing. They will have the opportunity to compare and group together everyday materials based on their properties while working together in scientific teams.

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Key Reminders:

• Robin Wood payment link is still available. If you have not been able to access this, please let us know.
• This half term, the children will need to bring their full P.E kit on a WEDNESDAY for their PE sessions. It is helpful if kits remain in school throughout the week in case we need to reschedule and for after school clubs.

Weekly reminders:

• English and Maths homework will be set via Century on Mondays and will be available for a week.
• Spellings are tested on Friday.
• Number Sense timestable tests will take place every day.
• Each day, your child should come to school and come home with their reading book and a library book. They can change these in school as soon as they have been read. Please do encourage them to read regularly and listen to them to read out loud wherever possible.
• Children should also be maintaining their speed and accuracy with their times tables knowledge - Times Tables Rockstars is available for this purpose.

As always, if you have any questions or concerns at any time, please do not hesitate to contact myself or Mrs Whitehurst.

Mrs Abbass & Mrs Whitehurst.