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.
What are we learning this week?
Maths –
* I can convert between different units of measurements (kilo): kg <-> g; km <-> m.
* I can convert between different units of measurements (milli): mg <-> g; ml <-> l.
* I can convert between different metric and imperial units of measurement.
* I can convert between different units of time.
English –
We shall be: identifying and evaluating key features of a persuasive text, editing and uplevelling an existing text, and, finally, we shall be researching, planning and beginning to write our own persuasive text.
Music – It is our Soundstart concert this week. Please come and see us perform on Wednesday afternoon – a flier was emailed out with further details by Mrs Hughes.
Art – We shall be continuing to look at landscape art and sketching our own design for painting.
Geography – We shall be looking at what rivers are used for.
History – We shall be looking at the key differences between Surrey Street market through history.
Key dates –
12th July – Trip to Sevenoaks Nature Reserve – please make sure you have paid on Parentpay and handed in your slip to your class teacher.
Maths – This week in maths, we shall be learning the following:
* I can estimate and approximate area (Continue & finish).
* I can identify different 2D shapes and describe their properties (Recap Y4).
* I can measure angles in degrees using a protractor (multiples of 10).
* I can precisely measure angles using a protractor.
* I can accurately draw lines and angles using geometrical tools.
* I can calculate angles on a straight line.
English/History – We shall be continuing our diary writing unit. This week we shall be taking a cross-curricular approach (History) with our writing. We shall be comparing eduction in the Victorian times to modern times. We shall then be building a character profile of a victorian child and then write a diary entry.
PE – Swimming continues this week and on Thursdays we shall be taking part in developing our Tennis skills.
French – We shall be continuing to look at the unit of clothes!
Music – Soundstart lessons will continue this week.
Reading – We shall be continuing with our class text, Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll this week. We shall be basing our comprehension sessions around our class text.
Geography – We shall be starting our new topic, Rivers!
Art – We shall be looking at our new unit, landscape artists.