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Immanuel and St. Andrew CE Primary School
Year 5 Class BulletinTerm 6 June 2011
Dear Parents / Carers,
Our final term together has arrived. I would like to use this
letter to thank you all foryour support throughout the school year.
I have enjoyed my time in year five and it hasbeen a great welcome
to Immanuel & St. Andrews. We will be having our final
assessmentsnext week. This is a real opportunity to show off their
knowledge and understanding forthe year, so please encourage them
to go to bed early and to be well rested for school. InSeptember
you will be thinking about their transistion to secondary school.
Please try andattend the special meeting being held of you on
Thursday 23rd June. This will also be anopportunity for you to meet
Ms Pike who will be teaching the children from September.
There be lots of events in this final term so please read the
dates diary carefully.
If you have any questions, queries or concerns, please come in
and speak to me in theplayground before school. You can also email
me on;
[email protected].
Topics this termKnowledge and understanding of the
world(Science, History and Geography)
We will complete our World War two topicfocusing on how the war
ended and theeffects of war, relating it to the events in theworld
around them. We will try and createan Anderson Shelter in the
classroom plusgrow our own fruit and vegetables to see
how effective the Grow your campaign was.We will also make
biscuits using a recipefrom the 1940s.
Creative developmentWe will look at a range of artists and
usetheir styles to inspire the childrens owncreations. We will
study the Spanish painterPicasso and Japanese paper art
creatingsymbols of peace.
RE
During this unit we will study the idea ofpeace and how to be
peaceful people. We willalso look at how Jesus described the role
ofpeacemakers.
ICT:We will be looking at the programme
Fronter and learning how to downloadwork onto it. The children
will beencouraged to use it at home as well.
PPA
On Thursdays, Mrs Hoare will be in class for thewhole afternoon
teaching Year Five Science.
Important NotesHomework
All homework will be set onThursday and will be due backon
Tuesday, unless thechildren are otherwiseinformed. The children
need to be
encouraged to use their Homework
diaries. Please check theirhomework and sign the diarieswhen it
is completed.
Spellings will be given out withthe homework on Thursday andthey
will be tested on Thursday.They will need to bring in theirspelling
book on Thursdays. Anumber of books have gonemissing. Please let me
know if anew one is needed.
Reading BooksEach Wednesday children will have theopportunity to
choose a book from theschool library. Please encourage thechildren
to return the books on time.They will also receive a new book from
the
school reading scheme on aFriday. It isvery important that
children bring theirbooks and book bags to school on a
dailybasis.Could I also encourage you to listen to
your child read and question them aboutthe text at home?
PEMondays and Wednesdays.
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Dates for your DiariesYear 6 School Journey: 13th JuneMaths
Olympiad (selected pupils): 16th
June
Assessment Week: 20th June
Reading Week:20
th
JuneKite Day: 28th June
Attendance & Punctuality Celebration
(By invite only):29th June
Sports Day/ Parents Evening: 6th July
Year 6 Play (pm): 14th July
Leavers Service (Immanuel & St.
Andrews church): 17th July
Arts Festival: 18th July
Last Day of term: 20th July 1.30
finish.
Numeracy
In numeracy, we continue to encourage all of thechildren to
learn all of their timestables. We wi llcontinue to develop skills
in the following areas.: The children will solve one and two
step problems involving wholenumbers and decimals and any ofthe
four operations.
They will solve simple problemsinvolving fractions. They will
decidewhat calculations to do and choosethe method of calculation
that theythink is most appropriate for thecalculations
involved.
The children will multiply anddivide whole numbers and
decimalsby 10, 100 and 1000, describing the
effects. They round whole numbers to the
nearest 10, 100 or 1000 and decimalsto the nearest whole number,
and usethis to find approximate answers tocalculations.
Children will use division andmultiplication to find fractions
ofquantities.
Children will be given opportunity topractice verbal and non
verbal testsin preparation for secondary school
tests.
Literacy:
In Literacy we will be developing the following
skills in writing myths and legends:
We will identify what is meant bymyths and legends.
We will compare different versionsof the same story.
The children will use role play todevelop knowledge of
characters.
They will create a comic strip basedon part of the Robin Hood
legendand will develop the dialogue andnarrative through
challengingword choices.
The children will be encouraged toshow a range of sentences
including complex sentences whenwriting.
The children will also develop theirskills of editing and
improvingtheir work through peer andteacher assessment.
The children will listen to andread different myths
beforedeveloping a myth of their own.
They will also make and producetheir own stories and poems
forpublishing in a class book.
Year Five demonstrated that theyunderstood how quilts were used
duringthe slave trade to pass on secretdirections. They designed
their ownsecret directions and then created theirown patchwork
quilt. The result was
stunning!Well done year Five.
