Summer 1 – Week 1 – 25th April 2022
Summer 1 – Week 1 – 25th April 2022
We hope you had a wonderful Easter break.
Welcome back to school beginning our last term in Year 5.
Our first themed weeks are focussing on …
Here are the objectives for the week ahead.
PE days are still Tuesday and Thursday.
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- To find the whole when the size of a unit fraction is known.
- To find a unit fraction when the size of a non-unit fraction is known.
- To find the whole when the size of a non-unit fraction is known.
- To find the unit fraction when the size of the non-unit fraction is known.
- To use representations to describe and compare two fractions.
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- To develop knowledge of word class (prepositions and determiners).
- To engage in book talk.
- To plot a character’s emotions.
- Short writing: To respond to a text through letter writing.
- To engage in book talk.
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To consolidate last term’s Spanish vocabulary.
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To use fair tests and observations to explore how to separate materials.
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To explore the new topic – Relationships (Assembly).
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- To develop chronological understanding about Benin.
- To build an overview of world history.
- To investigate and interpret the past I.
- To investigate and interpret the past II.
Enjoy your last Sunday in April.
Your Year 5 Team.
Week beginning 25th April 2022
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Our learning this week…
English
At Howard Primary School we have adopted Read Write Inc Phonics.
RWI is a method of learning centred round letter sounds and phonics, and we use it to aid children in their reading and writing. Read Write Inc., developed by Ruth Miskin, provides a structured and systematic approach to teaching literacy. It is used by more than a quarter of the UK’s primary schools and is designed to create fluent readers, confident speakers and willing writers.
Using RWI, the children learn to read effortlessly so that they can put all their energy into comprehending what they read. It also allows them to spell effortlessly so that they can put all their energy into composing what they write.
When using RWI to read the children will:
- Learn 44 sounds and the corresponding letter/letter groups using simple picture prompts
- Learn to read words using Fred Talk
- Read lively stories featuring words they have learnt to sound out
- Show that they comprehend the stories by answering questions.
Five key principles underpin the teaching in all Read Write Inc. sessions:
Purpose – know the purpose of every activity and share it with the children, so they know the one thing they should be thinking about
Participation – ensure every child participates throughout the lesson. Partnership work is fundamental to learning
Praise – ensure children are praised for effort and learning, not ability
Pace – teach at an effective pace and devote every moment to teaching and learning
Passion – be passionate about teaching so children can be engaged emotionally.
https://home.oxfordowl.co.uk/reading/reading-schemes-oxford-levels/read-write-inc-phonics-guide/
Hold a sentence is an activity that encourages children to remember a whole sentence while focusing on spelling and punctuation.
Build a sentence is to give children the opportunity to create their own sentence to that shows the meaning of a word and edit a sentence allows the children to critique a sentence using their knowledge of spelling punctuation and grammar. Children complete a longer piece of independent writing, which gives them the opportunity to show off their creativity and to practice their spelling, grammar and punctuation.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXOJUPNVnLc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjHqJQ8sxs4
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Power of Reading
English
At Howard Primary School we have adopted The Power of Reading scheme for literacy. Our literacy work will be based on a core text. The core text will be revealed at the end of the week.
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Maths – Multiplication
We will recap the 2/5 and 10 times tables.
We will look at the patterns associated with the twos, fives and ten times tables.
The children will then use their knowledge of their times tables to solve multiplication problems.
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Science
Our topic this term is animals, including humans.
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Geography
This term we are learning about WEATHER AROUND THE WORLD. We want the children to know:
- the location of the Equator, the North Pole and the South Pole;
- the location of hot and cold areas of the world in relation to the Equator and the North and South Poles;
- that the weather is different to the UK weather in different parts of the world;
- there are 4 climate zones – cold polar, warm, tropical and temperate – roughly where these are and the weather in each.
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PE
Please remember to send your child to school in their PE kit on their PE days.
Westminster – Monday & Thursday
Hungerford – Monday & Thursday
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Music
We are learning about pitch in music.
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RE
We will focus on Hinduism.
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RHE – Relationship and Health Education
Jigsaw has two aims for all children:
- To build their capacity for learning
- To equip them for life
Jigsaw brings together PSHE Education, emotional literacy, mindfulness, social skills and spiritual development. The topic this term is ‘Relationships. This topic will cover different families; keeping safe; solving conflict; secrets, trust and appreciation.
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Reading
When reading with your child at home ask them questions related to their book.
Questions to ask before you read
- Can you look at the pictures and predict what you think will happen in this book?
- What makes you think that?
- What characters do you think might be in our story?
- Do you think there will be a problem in this story? Why or why not?
- Does the topic/story relate to you or your family? How?
Questions to ask during the reading
- What do you think will happen next?
- What can you tell me about the story so far?
- Can you predict how the story will end?
- Why do you think the character did _______?
- What would you have done if you were the character?
- How would you have felt if you were the character? (use different characters)
- As I read____________, it made me picture________ in my head. What pictures do you see in your head?
- As you read, what are you wondering about?
- Can you put what you’ve just read in your own words?
Questions to ask after reading
- Can you remember the title?
- In your opinion, was it a good title for this book? Why or why not?
- Were your predictions about the story correct?
- If there was a problem, did it get solved?
- What happened because of the problem?
- Why do you think the author wrote this book?
- What is the most important point the author is trying to make in his writing?
- What was your favourite part of the story?
- If you could change one thing in the story, what would it be?
- Can you retell the story in order?
- If you were __________, how would you have felt?
- What is the most interesting situation in the story?
- Is there a character in the story like you? How are you alike?
Why did you like this book?
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Mathletics
A big well done to all the children completing their Mathletics. We are so proud. Please continue to complete your activities on Mathletics.
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Star of the week
Hungerford
Westminster
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Week beginning 25th April 2022
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- Drop off your child at 8.45am. Please ensure your child is in school on time as they will start an Early Morning Activity as soon as they arrive. Please note that if your child is late into school, they miss out on essential learning experiences.
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SUMMER TERM 1 TOPIC: Amazing Animals
THIS WEEK’S LEARNING
LITERACY: Literacy this term will focus on developing the children’s ability to:
- blend to read with accuracy and fluency.
- demonstrate understanding of what they have read by answering questions about the texts they read
- use their phonic knowledge to spell and write words phonetically
- to begin to spell some high frequency words correctly eg. the, my, he, she, we, said,
- create and write their own ideas as sentences which can be read by themselves and others
Focus Book: Brown Bear, Brown Bear by Bill Martin Jr and Eric Carle. This term we will explore several books by the author and illustrator Eric Carle.
MATHS:
- discuss and practise strategies for counting larger sets that can or cannot be moved
- count things that cannot be seen – actions and periods of time
- make or represent their own collections of larger amounts.
- practise counting on from a given number
UW: To develop an understanding of different types of animals and to sort them by groups eg. pets, wild animals, farm animals, etc. This Monday, the children will join Key Stage 1 for a special assembly about the significance of Stephen Lawrence Day
RHE: Relationships: To identify some of the jobs I do in my family and how I feel like I belong
PE: Indoor and Outdoor Team Games: Using equipment safely, sending and receiving equipment.
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Week Beginning 25th April
Welcome Back to a new half term.
This week our learning will be as follows;
- In mathematics we will conclude our work on fractions. We will convert between mixed number and improper fractions.
- In English we will begin a new unit of work based on the Lost Happy Ending by Carol Ann Duffy and Jane Ray. We will read the book and respond to illustrations. We will also do a short piece of creative writing based on one of the illustrations in the book.
- In science we will learn about invertebrates.
- Our blocked foundation subject will be music. We will follow a unit of work based on our Ancient Egypt topic focussing on pitch.
Millennium Class will swim on Tuesday and do PE on Wednesday. Southwark Class will do PE on Wednesday and Thursday.
This term parents have been asked to collect their children from the playground (behind the dining hall).
Is water important for our mental health?
Week commencing 25th April
Well done to everyone for all your hard work over the Spring Term. It is time for a well deserved break!
Thank you for your amazing generosity, Year 3 have raised over £100 for The Wildlife Trust and will be able to sponsor 3 animals! (More to come about that after Easter!) The children had an amazing time with the animals and were extremely brave with the snakes! 
A big thank you also to Shae Bunnies for donating their time for our children to a wonderful Easter treat!
Here’s what we will be learning when we return:
English- We will be beginning a new text, Lob by Linda Newbery. We will be practising using expanded noun phrases, responding to illustrations from the book, practising reading for performance and having a go at some poetry writing.
Reading- We will be looking at an extract from The Tiny Seed by Eric Carle, focusing on the use and meaning of key vocabulary, reading for prosody (reading fluency) and discussing key ideas from the text.
We will be beginning to send home reading books on Monday, Wednesday and Friday for those children who have not already chosen them. Reading diaries should be brought to school each day.
Maths- We will be learning about parallel and perpendicular lines in polygons, composing and decomposing polygons and drawing polygons, drawing compound shapes with perpendicular and parallel lines, extending lines and drawing shapes with given properties.
If your child would like to practise their learning at home, there are lots of free games which they can use, including Daily 10 from Topmarks or Hit the Button
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/daily10
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button
PE- We will be continuing to work on ball skills and also learning some of the rules and skills of netball.
History- We will be investigating daily life in Ancient Egypt, the importance of farming and beginning to learn about mummification.
Science- We will be continuing a new topic about rocks and soils, comparing and grouping together different rocks according to their properties.
RHE- We are going to begin to consider what makes healthy relationships.
Homework- We will post homework on Google Classroom each week. We have added tasks to Mathletics. Additionally, the children will have access to Language Angels to practise their new vocabulary in Spanish. We hope to give your child access to TTRockstars also this week, a fun way to practise times tables.
PE will take place on Monday and Friday for Blackfriars class and Tuesday and Friday for Waterloo class. Children should come to school in their school PE kits on those days.
Please ensure your child has a water bottle in school each day.
Lastly, if you have any questions or concerns, please speak to a member of staff or email us at the address below;
Year3@howard.croydon.sch.uk
Year 3 Team
We have now got access to Google Classroom again and are starting to upload homework tasks. Children’s logins have not changed but there is a new class code.
Waterloo: 2tu6ksx
Blackfriars: tdsv7fo
Week Beginning 4th April
This is our last week of term. The children have worked hard and are looking forward to a well deserved break.
This week our learning will be as follows;
- In English we will be looking at the poem Jellyfish by Michael Rosen, we will look at the way jellyfish move before planning and writing our own Jellyfish poem.
- In mathematics we will introduce improper fractions.
- In science we will learn about invertebrates.
- In RHE we will think about anxiety.
- Our blocked foundation subject this week will be RE. We will learn about the importance of the Bible for Christians, compare versions of the Easter story in the four gospels and look at Easter signs and symbols.
We will do PE on Wednesday and children should come into school in PE kit on that day. There will be no swimming this week.
It was lovely to see parents last week. It is really nice to be able to do parents evening in person again. We are looking forward to seeing more parents on Wednesday evening. Please speak to your child’s teacher if you have not been able to make an appointment.
Week beginning 4th April 2022
What are we learning this week?
English –
We shall be moving over to a new 10-day cycle approach to the teaching of English in Year 6. The outline is as follows:
In our English lessons, we shall still be using a range of different adaptations to understand the story of Macbeth. In our daily Reading lessons, we shall use supplementary texts. This weeks supplementary texts will be a mixture of Shakespeare’s sonnets and non-fiction texts about: the Tudors, the theatre, newspaper reports about Shakespeare and Shakespeare – himself.
Our English lesson learning objectives this week are:
- To explore a character’s thoughts and motives.
- To identify and evaluate the key features of a play script.
- To up-level a playscript.
- To plan a playscript.
- To write a play script.
- To edit and up-level my writing.
What is our class reading book?
Since we are studying the Shakespeare classic Macbeth, we have decided to read from a collection of Shakespeare short stories, by Andrew Matthews. Each week, the children in Year 6 vote for which two of the Shakespeare short stories that they would like to listen to. Afterwards, we shall be looking to identifying similarities and differences across the collection.
Maths –
- To describe the relationship between two factors (in a ratio context)
- To explain how to use multiplication and division to calculate unknown values (two variables)
- To use multiplication and division to calculate unknown values (three variables)
- To use a ratio grid to calculate unknown values
- To use multiplication to solve correspondence problems
Science –
Continuing with our unit, Living Things and their Habitats, we shall be looking at Classifying Plants and Classifying Micro-organisms.
RE –
It’s RE week, this week. We shall be learning about Holy Week.
RHE –
This term’s unit is called Healthy Me. Our learning objective this week are:
- To understand that some people can be exploited and made to do things that are against the law.
PE –
- To gain possession through tackling.
- Real PE – dynamic balance to agility.
Spring 2 Week 7 – 4th April 2022
Spring 2 – Week 7 – 4th April 2022
Welcome to our last school week this term.
Here are the objectives for the week ahead.
PE days are still Tuesday and Thursday.
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- To explain the relation between finding a fraction of a quantity and multiplying a whole number by a unit fraction.
- To explain the relation between dividing a whole number and multiplying a whole number by a unit fraction.
- To use my knowledge of multiplying a whole number by a unit fraction to solve problems.
- To find a non-unit fraction of a quantity (mental calculation).
- To find a non-unit fraction of a quantity (formal calculation).
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- To engage in book talk.
- To identify the features of a non-chronological report.
- To plan a non-chronological report.
- To write a non-chronological report.
- To edit a non-chronological report.
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- To actively use vocabulary needed in a café/restaurant (role-play).
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- To be able to classify materials based on their ability to conduct electricity (investigation).
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- To know what to do in an emergency.
- To reflect on self image.
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- To understand the Easter story.
- To reflect on the representations of the Easter story through Art.
- To create my own art inspired by the Easter story.
Enjoy your Sunday evening.
Your Year 5 Team.
Week beginning 4th April 2022
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THIS WEEK’S LEARNING
LITERACY:
Focus Book: the Story of Easter
Group Phonics: Check Google Classroom for homework
MATHS:
- To explore properties of 3D shapes
- To compare similarities and differences between 2D and 3D shapes
- To create and explain numerical patterns
UW: To understand the significance of the following religious events: Ramadan for Muslims andeaster for Christians
PE: Gymnastics: to explore travelling movements on feet using large apparatus (avoiding obstacles)
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