Falcon Class Newsletter Term ThreeTopic News

This term’s topic is called How we organise ourselves! The central inquiry of this topic is based around the question How do marketplaces work? The children will identify what a market is and explore famous marketplaces around the world. They will see local markets in action and explore what makes products successful before designing their own product and holding their own market stall in the town centre at the end of term.

Key dates:

Falcon Class Market – Tuesday 12th February. End of term – Thursday 14th February 2019Staff Development Day – Friday 15th February.

Key skills in Maths:Multiplication and division focussing on Prime Numbers, Square numbers, cube numbers and how to multiply and divide by 10, 100 and 1000. Understanding area and perimeter.

Key skills in English: Using a wider variety of sentence openers, checking sentences for grammatical accuracy and using modal verbs.

There will be a focus on non-fiction writing this term including writing letters, emails, non-chronological reports

P.E. kit: plain white T-shirt blue P.E shorts trainers for all activities navy blue sweatshirt and tracksuit

bottoms (important during the winter months)

PE – Monday and Friday afternoon.

Homework 15 minutes daily reading is expected from all year 5 children.

Children should be reading a range of good quality fiction and non-fiction texts. Please support your child by reading with them, asking them questions about what they are reading and discussing the texts with them.

After reading, children are expected to write a few sentences about what they have read that day in their homework book. Spellings are sent home weekly and, as of this term will be uploaded to Google Classroom.

The children are to practise these words using any strategy that works for them.

They are then to use EACH word in a sentence to demonstrate they know the meaning of the word and can use it in context.

We continue to use Times Table Rockstars this year and would like the children, as part of their homework, to log-in and play it at least twice a week.

The children are expected to practise their times tables at home weekly even if they cannot access Times Table Rockstars.

The children must complete at least 3 topic based challenges from the puzzle grid over the term. The puzzle grid is on Google Classroom and the class webpage.