Term 3

Immanuel and St. Andrew CE Primary School Year 5 Class Bulletin

January 2012

Dear Parents / Carers, Happy New Year! I hope you enjoyed the holidays. Welcome back to a new term and year. Thank you for all of your support and help in the first two terms. Below are some details about what the children will be learning during Term 3. We now have our Virtual Learning Environment up and running. Please go to www.fronter.com/lambeth and login using your childs USO and password. All homework and spellings will be posted up there, as well as photographs, games and other information. If you have any questions, queries or concerns, please come in and speak to me in the playground before school. You can also email me on; nwehbe@immanuelschoollambeth.org.uk Miss Natasha Wehbe Topics this term
Knowledge and understanding of the world
(History and Geography)

Important Notes
Homework

This term the whole school will be focusing on the Olympics. In Year 5 we will create a timeline that shows the past 10 Olympics, as well as other significant years. The timeline will show the dates and venues and important figures and events that took place. We will also study the 2012 Olympic sites and design and create a brochure giving information on locations, timings and events. Art: The children will design and sculpt clay pots using the methods of slabbing and coil. When the pots are dry, the children will paint designs on them relating to an Olympic sport.
RE

Homework will continue to be set on Thursday and will be due back on Tuesday, unless the children are otherwise informed. Please check your childs homework and sign their homework diary when it is completed. Spellings will be given out on a Monday and the children will be tested on a Friday. Reading Books The children will continue to be given a new book from the school reading scheme on a Friday. It is very important that children bring their books and book bags to school on a daily basis. Could I also encourage you to listen to your child read and question them about the text at home?

During this unit we will be learning about the Muslim faith. We will find out what Muslims believe and the impact it has on their lives. We will look at similarities and differences between the Muslim and the Christian faith.
ICT:

The children will publish their brochures using images from websites and importing maps. We will also create interactive brochures on fronter using hyperlinks, embedding videos and sound clips.

Outdoor PE Netball Monday afternoons Indoor PE Gymnastics Wednesday afternoons Kit required: navy shorts/tracksuit bottoms and pale blue t-shirt.

PPA OnTuesdays, Mrs Hoare will continue to be in class for the whole afternoon teaching Year Five Science.

Numeracy
In numeracy, we continue to encourage all of the children to learn all of their times tables. We will continue to develop skills in the following areas.

Literacy:
Our first unit is Poetic Style. We will be focusing on the following skills:

Written methods: addition and subtraction of decimals Ordering, partitioning and rounding numbers and decimals to 2 places Solving one- and two-step word problems involving numbers, money or measures Mental methods and recall: sums, differences, doubles and halves of decimals Factors, common multiples Patterns, relationships and properties of numbers and shapes Representing a problem using calculations or diagrams Visualising 3-D and 2-D shapes Properties of 3-D and 2-D shapes Nets of solids Using a calculator

As a class and in groups, children hear, read and study in depth a range of poems from two significant writers, Pie Corbett and Valerie Bloom. They will explore some of the many elements and features of these poems which together constitute the writer's distinctive style, including language effects, pattern and form, subjects, themes and meaning. The children will be encouraged to respond to and perform the poems in a variety of ways. The children will write their own free verse poems, inspired by those they have read, and borrowing, melding and adapting elements and features from these in order to begin to develop a style of their own.

Year 5 Timetable for Term 3

8:50-9.25 Lesson 1: 9:25 10:00 Lesson 2: 10:00 10:40 10:40 11:15 Lesson 3: 11:15 12:00 Lesson 4: 12:00 12:30 12:25 1:25 Lesson 5: 1:30 2:30 Lesson 6: 2:30 3:30

Mon

Literacy

10.4011.00 Assembly 11.1011.15 Playtime 10.4011.00 Assembly 11.00-11.15 Playtime 10.4011.00 Assembly

Numeracy

Topic (Geography)

Outdoor PE

Class Registration & Guided Reading

Tues

Literacy

Numeracy

Science (Mrs Hoare) Lunchtime

Wed

Literacy

11.0011.15 Playtime 10.40-11.00 Assembly 11.0011:15 Playtime 10.40-11.00 Assembly 11.00 11.15 Playtime

Numeracy

Spanish + RE

Indoor PE

Thurs

Literacy

Numeracy

PSHCE

Topic (History)

Literacy/Extended Writing

Numeracy

Handwriting

Topic (Art)

Fri