Welcome to London Bridge Class
Class Teacher: Miss S. Winser (Howard’s Curriculum Lead)
Teaching Assistant: Mrs R. Verma
Homework:
Handed out on Fridays,
Returned by Wednesday,
Please remember that homework is an important building stone in the child’s learning and development. The children will receive Dojo-Points for completed homework as well as particularly outstanding contributions.
Daily Reading:
To help further develop the children’s reading and academic development, please support and encourage the children to read daily for at least 10 minutes. This daily reading should then be recorded (title + pages) in the Learning Diary. We would kindly ask parents to sign/initial the record.
The children will receive Dojo-Points for daily reading.
Recommended reading books for Year 5:
Best Books for Year 5 | Ages 9-10 | BooksForTopics
Expertly selected books for 9 and 10 year old children (lovereading4kids.co.uk)
Reading Activities:
Once the children have completed reading a book, they then choose an activity related to the book (e.g. book-review, letter to the author, sequel, character profile, alternative cover etc.). This activity is completed in the child’s Reading Journal. Our wonderful teaching assistants will then check, feedback and record the completion of these activities.
The children will receive multiple Dojo-Points to reward exceptional work.
PE:
Our current P.E. days are Tuesday and Wednesday with Miss Handley.
Over the coming, slightly shorter week, we will be …
Maths: Revising multiplying 4- by 2-digit numbers & dividing 4- by 1-digit numbers without and with remainder,
English: Identifying features of a good biography as well as imitating and editing a biography of the great inventor Thomas Edison,
ICT: Continuing to design our Memory-Game on Scratch,
Art: Continuing with our Paste-Resist work,
RE: Creating a story-board of Holy Week.
Keep the spirit up, the relaxing break is coming closer and closer.
To revise the timestables, follow the links below:
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/7-11-years/times-tables
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Maths:
Over the next few weeks, we shall be revisiting our calculation strategies. This week’s focus is specifically aimed at multiplication and division. We shall specifically be looking at: multiples and factors; prime numbers, calculating mentally based on known facts; and multiplying 4 digits by 1 digits.
English:
We shall be finishing our unit on characterisation. We shall be rewriting a scene from The Boy in the Girls’ Bathroom where the children will be describing their invented character’s first meeting with Carla, the counsellor.
Spag: Word Classes
I can use various devices to develop a character through actions and dialogue.
I can use my targets to improve my narration.
I can use peer-feedback to edit and improve my narration.
I can identify the features of a biography.
I can analyse the structure of a biography and identify what makes a good biography.
French:
We shall be continuing our animal unit, specifically looking at how to describe our own pets.
PE:
Your children will have taken a letter home on Thursday 22nd February, detailing which swimming group that they are in. Below is a reminder of the key dates and swimming kit that they will need.
Group A Tuesday 27th February-Tuesday 27th March
Group B Tuesday 17th April-Tuesday 22nd May (No swimming on the 15th May)
Group C Tuesday 5th June – Tuesday 3rd July
Please can you make sure that they bring a swimming costume (preferably NOT a bikini for girls and NOT long shorts for boys), towel and, if they have long hair, a swimming hat all in a bag that can be easily identifiable. Children will be taught how to swim by 2 qualified swimming instructors including a teacher from Whitgift school and no prior knowledge of how to swim is needed. Children will be assessed the first week and then put into suitable groups with no child entering the deep end unless they can swim a length unaided. A trained lifeguard will also be present.
Children who are not going swimming during this time will still have a PE lesson. All children will continue to have their Thursday PE lesson.
Computing:
We shall be continuing to create a memory game, using Scratch.
Music:
We shall be continuing our Soundstart lessons with Mr Regan.
RE:
We shall begin to look at Holy Week, in preparation for Easter.
Art:
We shall be designing a class tablecloth, representing Greek patterns, using the paste resist process. We shall be creating two drafts as well as evaluating good examples of work.