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 – Revising the formal methods of multiplication and division.
English – We shall be starting our new unit, warning stories, based on our new class read – Room 13!
Science – We shall be revising our key facts from our Space topic.
Computing – We shall be looking at Online Safety, specifically the symptoms of video game addiction. We shall also be looking at how to build a Space animation on Scratch.
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. 
History – We shall be finishing off our innovation of Pandora’s box – with a modern twist!
PE – We have PE lessons on Tuesdays and Thursday. Please make sure your child has some tracksuit bottoms/leggings as we shall be going outside on Thursdays.
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31st January – Trip to Polka Theatre.
What are we learning this week?
Maths – Learning all about square and cube numbers!
English – Continuing to use a picture stimulus as a writing prompt for our new unit. We shall be using the 5 senses and figurative language to build tension to a mystery story. We shall also be looking at the different types of tenses.
Science – We shall be revising our key facts from our Space topic.
Computing – We shall be looking at Online Safety, specifically the symptoms of video game addiction.
Reading – We are hoping to finish our class novel, Wonder, within the next two weeks.
History – We shall be writing an innovation of Pandora’s Box, set in modern times.
PE – We have PE lessons on Tuesdays and Thursday. Please make sure your child has some tracksuit bottoms/leggings as we shall be going outside on Thursdays.
Key dates –
31st January – Trip to Polka Theatre. Please make sure that you have paid and returned the permission slip by 11th January.