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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Maths – We shall be continuing our unit of fractions. This week, our learning objectives are:
- I can multiply unit-fractions by integers.
- I can multiply non-unit fractions by integers.
- I can multiply mixed numbers by integers.
- I can find fractions of an amount.
English – We shall be starting our new topic, Travel Brochures. We will be identifying key features and persuasive language.
Science – We shall be looking at comparing life cycles.
Computing – We shall be practising our coding skills using Hour of Code this week.
Reading – We shall be continuing our new class novel, Room 13 by Robert Swindells. Thanks to the Friends of Howard for our lovely class sets of books so that we can all read along! 
PE – We have swimming on Tuesdays and our PE session on Thursdays.
French – We shall be continuing to look at the weather.
Music lessons will be taught by our Soundstart teacher, Mr Regan.
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7th March – World Book Day
21st & 27th March – Spring term parents’ evening
[dropshadowbox align=”none” effect=”lifted-both” width=”auto” height=”” background_color=”#ffffff” border_width=”15″ border_color=”#e59dfa” ]What are we learning this week?[/dropshadowbox]
Maths – We shall be continuing our unit of fractions. This week, our learning objectives are:
I can subtract fractions with related denominators.
I can subtract mixed number fraction.
English – We shall writing an independent warning dream.
Science – We shall be looking at comparing life cycles.
Computing – We shall be practising our coding skills using Hour of Code this week.
Reading – We shall be starting our new class novel, Room 13 by Robert Swindells. Thanks to the Friends of Howard for our lovely class sets of books so that we can all read along! We shall also be writing a book review on Wonder.
PE – We have swimming on Tuesdays and our PE session on Thursdays.
[dropshadowbox align=”none” effect=”lifted-both” width=”auto” height=”” background_color=”#ffffff” border_width=”15″ border_color=”#befa9d” ]Key dates.[/dropshadowbox]
21st & 27th March – Spring term parents’ evening