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.
Maths – This week in maths, we shall be learning the following:
* I can calculate the area of compound shapes (Recap).
* I can estimate and approximate area (Continue & finish).
* I can identify different 2D shapes and describe their properties (Recap Y4).
English – We shall be starting our new unit, diary writing. This week we shall be identifying the key features, editing an existing diary and then planning and writing a diary entry based on Sports Day.
PE – It is sports day this Thursday. Any child travelling with the school must arrive promptly and in their PE kit.
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.
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Sports Day – 6th June
Maths – This week in maths, we shall be learning the following:
perimeter of shapes, calculating missing lengths and the area of irregular/compound shapes.
English – We shall be finishing off our biography unit by choosing an ‘inspirational woman’ to focus on. In our SPAG sessions we shall be looking at uplevelling our writing. As with our previous learning through this unit, Cannon Street Class will be taught by Miss Blackford and London Bridge Class will be taught by Mr Grundey.
Computing – We shall be finishing up typing and designing our travel brochures.
PE -There is swimming this week.
RE –We shall starting our new unit with Mrs Forde, Judaism.
French – We shall be continuing to look at the unit of clothes!
Science – Continuing with forces, we shall be looking at air resistance.
Music – Soundstart lessons will return this week.
Reading – We have started our new class text, Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll this week.
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End of half term – 24th May
Children return to school on 4th June 2019.