Osprey Class - Year 5 2024 - 2025
Miss Egerton-Morris
Welcome back to Autumn Term 2024. I hope you had an incredible summer filled with laughter, fun and adventures. I am so excited to start this new term with you and cannot wait for us to learn, explore, and grow together in our wonderful classroom.
English
In our English lessons, we will begin 'FArTHER', a beautiful exploration into the relationship between a father and son. When a father who dreams of flying, goes off to war and doesn't return, his son decides to make his dream come true. With an intriguing mix of realism and fantasy, this book will spark imagination and curiosity.
Maths
In maths, we are excited to continue using Power Maths. This is now fully integrated into our curriculum, strengthening and deeping understanding of curriculum objectives, whilst supporting the children's fluency, problem solving and reasoning skills. This term, we will focus on place value, addition and subtraction, multiplication and division and fractions.
The children will continue to have weekly arithmetic tests on a Monday, and their progress will be recorded in their Home School Journals.
Wider curriculum
In our wider curriculum subjects, we will start by learning through real life experiences in our fieldwork topic in Geography. The term will begin with the children exploring a variety of maps, creating their own field sketch, exploring methods of collecting data and presenting their findings. The children will then progress to formulating their own enquiry question or hypothesis, gathering data, analysing the results and reaching conclusions. In Science, we will be exploring everyday materials, delving into the properties of certain materials and how and why those specific properties make them suitable for particular uses.
Our RE lessons, will be based on the question 'How can following God bring freedom and justice?'. We will also enjoy our weekly Music lessons with Mr Kitcher each Thursday. In PSHE, our topic will be 'Citizenship'.
In French, we will be looking at French transport. In Art and Design, the children will develop their photography skills, through covedring useful artistic concepts in a new context, looking at composition, colour, light, abstract images and underlying messages. Finally, in Computing, the children will explore 'systems and searching' where the children will develop their understanding of computer systems and how information is transferred between systems and devices.
Homework
Homework will be assigned on Tuesdays and due the following Monday. This will be both mathematics and spelling, punctuation and grammar CGP books. Where possible, homework will be closely aligned with topics being covered in class. Practice makes perfect, and these fantastic workbooks have just that. They have a huge range of questions covering all the skills needed to master both mathematics and SPAG.
We strongly recommend that your child continues to practice their times tables on Times Table Rockstars daily to improve their fluency and understanding.
Reading is fundamental for education. We encourage our pupils to read daily at home for at leasy 5 minutes. We believe that daily reading can greatly impact a child's academic achievements. Keeping a record of each reading session in the Home School Journal and bringing it to school daily will help your child track their progress.
We hope that these exciting topics and opportunities will inspire our children and continue to broaden their horizons.
For more information on our curriculum, please visit our Curriculum Page on the website.
Key Information for Autumn Term
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Children should wear full uniform and black school shoes each day.
- Our PE sessions will be on Wednesday and Thursdays. Children are required to come to school in their PE kit.
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Children should bring a water bottle everyday.
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Children do not need to bring pencil cases or other personal items to school.
- Please label all clothing and personal items to avoid the loss of property.
If you have questions or queries please see me at the start or end of the school day, contact me via class dojo or email [email protected]
I really am looking forward to the term ahead with you all and don't forget to follow what goes on in our school on our Class Dojo page!