English

This week, the children have learnt the story of Beowulf and retold it in their own words. They have also created an information leaflet about Canterbury Cathedral. Using the knowledge they have learnt, they created a persuasive leaflet to encourage children to visit the cathedral. The focus was using modal verbs to persuade. In PAG this week, the children were learning about colons and how they are used in writing. Next term, we will be starting our new class text, Who Let the Gods Out which links to our topic of Gods and Mortals.

Maths

This week, the children have completed the first week of angles. They have classified angles, measured angles and calculated them. Next term, we will be continuing our angles learning and introduce percentages.

Thematic 

This week, the children have been learning about Buddhism in RE. The children have learnt about the eightfold path and the four Noble Truths. On Wednesday, the children visited a local church, St Peters in Thanet. They participated in a treasure hunt to find key features of the church. We discussed how many of the features could also be found in Canterbury Cathedral. Next term, we will start the term with PSHE, with a focus on kindness.

Sir Link Alot

This week, year 5 are recapping level 3 key words.

 

Speaker Competition

This year’s topic:  

 We would like you to think of a new subject that you would like to be taught in your school and persuade your head of school to introduce it.

Use your imagination, this subject could be as wild and as wonderful as you like!

You’ll then need to focus on the art of persuasion to convince your head of school to introduce this new subject at your school!

Key dates:

• Over the half term write the speech. Information can be found on the blogs.

• Practice at home in front of people.

• Class heats are the week beginning Monday 24^th February and will take place in the children’s classrooms.

• Week beginning Monday 3^rd March - Year group heat where 16 children will compete and 4 will be selected to move forwards.

• Thursday 13^th March (PM) - The year group winners will compete across the school by performing their speeches once more. Parents of these children will be invited to this heat.

• Friday 28^th March – The Upton winners will perform their speech once more and go with Miss Scarr to Royal Harbour where they will compete against the winners from Chilton Primary School and Ramsgate Arts Primary School. 

The Speaker is a wonderful opportunity for all children to get involved in and develop their oracy skills which are essential life skills.

Key Dates 

 Thursday 6^th March- World Book Day

Wednesday 12^th March- STEM day

Wednesday 19^th March- Parent engage session 2.40pm

Friday 21^st March- Comic relief 80’s theme

Wednesday 26^th March- Year 5 WOW day and book look

Monday 31^st March- Parents evening

Tuesday 1^st April- Parents evening

Homework

- Please read with your child at least 3 times a week.

- All children have been given a ZPD to help them identify the correct books for their reading level. Once your child has read their book, they will need to complete a quiz on it before getting a new one. These quizzes can be done either in school or at home on Accelerated Reader using the log-in codes found in their reading records.

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- Children should be playing TTRS at least 3 times a week to build their confidence and fluency with time-tables knowledge.

- Mathletics homework has also been set for the children to complete by next Friday.

- Please see the homework menu attached for our thematic homework. This can be completed in the homework book provided if you wish.

Have a great half term!

The Year 5 team