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.
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Welcome back! We hope that you have had an enjoyable and relaxing break.
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Maths:
We shall be looking at the formal methods of multiplication and division. IT IS ESSENTIAL that your children are confident with their times tables knowledge. Please encourage them to learn them at home to help them with their calculations in class.
English:
We shall be tying our English unit to our new class text, Room 13 by Robert Swindells. Over the next week, we shall be taking part in hot seating activities to build character profiles as well as planning our own innovation dream sequence – based on the first chapter of the book. We shall also be focusing on fronted adverbials and relative clauses in our grammar activities.
French:
We shall be looking at the topic of food in our french session.
PE:
Due to hall time allocations last half term, we shall be continuing our gymnastics sessions on Tuesdays and starting Basketball on Thursdays.
PSHE:
We shall be continuing our Apple’s Friends programme as well as discussing New Year’s Resolutions.
Music:
Soundstart shall restart on Wednesday 10th January.
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6th February – Mrs Stout is in to stamp your Croydon University passports.
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Below is a list of questions that you could be asking your children when reading with them at home. We do encourage our children to read at home for at least 20 mins a day. Please take this time to share your child’s book and help us to encourage a love for reading.
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Maths:
We shall be assessing perimeter, area and conversion of metric units.
English:
We shall be continuing our new unit of poetry. We will be learning and performing a rage of poems in small groups.
Reading:
We shall be trying to finish reading our class novel, George’s Secret Key to the Universe. We shall also be writing our own book reviews, based on what our favourite reading book has been during the Autumn Term.
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Monday 18th December – Carol Concert – St Andrews Church – Years 3/4/5 – 2:15pm
Tuesday 19th December-Class Parties are in the afternoon. Please look out for a letter that your child will be taking home over the next few days.
Wednesday 20th December-Last day of term!!
Please remember that we return to school on the 3rd January 2018.