Welcome to Owls

Class Teacher: Miss Winfield
Learning Support: Miss Purnell

If you’re anything like me, that half term went quickly, but we are back and raring to go

Please remember that expectations are higher again this year and I know the children will more than meet them doing it… ‘’Better than you have to…’’

 In English, we are working towards writing a detailed description to entertain our audiences, writing about the settings and descriptions of biomes and landscapes. We will achieve this by working on our use of figurative language: metaphors; personification; and diacopes (a form of repetition).

We will have a dedicated Reading session each week where we follow the pattern of I read, we read you read, which helps with fluency by re reading the same passages and words. We work to analyse the text and the key information which then leads into comprehension questions surrounding the text to increase our understanding. Children will not be having a reading diary in Year 5 but it is still expected that children are reading independently at home or with an adult.

Our Mathematics learning will move to look at Multiplication and Division. We will learn long multiplication that will allow us to multiply up to 4 digits by 2 digits. This will use our times tables knowledge, as well as our addition understanding too. We will recap our knowledge of short division also and extend this learning into problem solving and word problems We will regularly recall our previous learning on our ‘Flashback Fridays’ and short daily recaps.

Times Table practise is still just as important, and we will still continually do lots of work with this in school but additional practise at home is expected. All children have access to TTRockstars to help with this. 

In our Wider Curriculum we will look at: Materials and their Properties in Science, Fairtrade in Geography, Medieval Britain in History

Spellings will be handed out on a Friday and tested the following Friday. They include a range of spellings across the Primary Curriculum. Please encourage your child to practise these at home.

Additional Maths and English Homework will also be handed out on a Friday. This is to reinforce classroom learning and provide additional practice for mastering the material.

PE will take place on Wednesdays (Gymnastics) and Fridays. Please make sure children come to school in the correct kit on these days – Back bottoms, a white top and their school jumper/cardi.

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