Positive Parrots (Year 5)

Spring 1 Newsletter

Welcome back!

 We hope that you all had a wonderful Christmas break and are ready for another jam-packed term! 

 This new term brings with it a new and exciting topic for the children: Blue Planet. We will start by naming and labelling the continents and oceans (learn through song) and look at how much of the world’s surface is covered by water. We will learn about how ocean currents affect the UK’s climate and take a dive into the Mariana Trench (the deepest place on earth) where we will study its physical features.  To end this unit, we will take a look at environmental issues which threaten our oceans in terms of global warming and plastic pollution.  The children will all be provided with a knowledge organiser at the beginning of this topic.  This summarises all of the facts that the children should be able to recall at the end of the unit of work.  A copy of this has already been posted on Class Dojo (as part of the holiday homework).

 Reading
Some children in Positive Parrots have achieved their Bronze certificate and reading wrist band already and are on their way to gaining their silver certificate! Thank you so much for all of the parents/carers at home who have supported this.  We would appreciate your continued support with this reading challenge as we move into this half term too. 

 Targets

 READING

 
SCIENCE 

 Homework
Your child will receive homework every Friday to be handed in the following Wednesday. 
Weekly homework will be as follows: 

 Spellings will still continue to be handed out on a Friday to be tested the following Friday.  The expectation is that children will get 5 or 6 correct every week. 

 Water Bottles & PE Kit
Children are encouraged to bring drinks bottles to school with water so they can have a drink in class.

 This half term, indoor PE will continue to be on a Wednesday afternoon and outdoor PE on a Thursday afternoon. Please ensure your child has appropriate kit in school on these days either wearing their house team t-shirt or a plain t-shirt (no football kits).  Long hair must be tied back and earrings should be removed. Children also need to come to school in trainers or bring a pair or trainers with them-winter boots are not suitable for PE.

 If you have any questions or if there is anything we can do to help then please do not hesitate to ask.

Online Safety

This half term’s online content will focus on Privacy and Security online. We will learn about understanding what the term secure password means and how to create one. How our information may be shared with others and understanding what app permissions are.

 Key Dates for the Diary

 8.1.24 – Back to school

6.2.24 – Safer Internet Day

8.2.24 – Young Voices

16.2.24 – Break up for half term

18.3.24-class assembly (pm)

 *Some dates may be subject to change and further dates may be added.

 Miss Ireland, Miss Stewart, Mrs Armstrong and Mr Minton.

Curriculum Web and Topic Knowledge Organisers for this half term

Please take a look at the wonderful things we will be learning about this half term. 

Autumn 2 Newsletter

Welcome to Autumn 2 and the fun run up to Christmas.  We hope that everybody has had a restful half term holiday and are now ready for another great term in Year 5.

 Our topic this term opens with a re-enactment of the battle of Edington between King Alfred the Great and the Danes.  After studying just how ‘great’ King Alfred was, we will move into our much anticipated topic of the Vicious Vikings.  During this unit, we will explore whether the Vikings were really just vicious raiders and take a peek at their home life and settlements, how they learnt a living and their beliefs.

It has been fantastic to already see how many children are working hard with their reading challenge and we have some children who have read consistently to an adult every week since the beginning of Autumn 1 – Bravo! To help us to continue to develop the children’s reading skills, we would like to remind you to try and hear your child read for at least 15 minutes, 3-4 times a week and sign their reading record.  This can be their class book or a book from their Lexiled reading list, which can be found by logging into Reading Pro. As a reward for reading regularly, each child earns points towards their Reading bands and certificates.   You can do it Positive Parrots.   

 Targets:

Reading

Science

Homework:

 Your child will receive homework every Friday to be handed in the following Wednesday. 

Spellings will be handed out on a Friday to be tested the following Friday.  The expectation is that they will get 5 or 6 correct every week.  You can also find spelling overviews for all the groups for Autumn 2 on Class dojo. Children who hand in their spelling sheet before Wednesday earn 5 minutes extra playtime.

Online Safety:

 This half term’s E-safety content will focus on Online Reputation. The children will search for information about a specified individual online and summarise the information found. Within this unit, we will discuss that the information found may not be accurate and understand that people may make judgements against others on the information that they find.

Water Bottles & PE Kit:

 Children are encouraged to bring drinks bottles to school with water so they can have a drink in class.

This half term, indoor PE will be on a Wednesday afternoon and outdoor on a Thursday afternoon. Please ensure your child has appropriate kit in school on these days this should ideally be their house t-shirt. Please note football shirts/kits are not allowed for PE sessions.   Long hair must be tied back and earrings should be removed or taped.

 Dairy Dates

Wb 27^th Nov Assessment Week and Big Write on location visit

1.12.23 Christmas Fair

8.12.23 Christmas Panto in school

13.12.23 Christmas dinner

15.12.23 Christmas stalls

Ks2 Christmas party 20.12.23

18.3.2024 Y5 Class Assembly

 If you have any questions or if there is anything we can do to help, then please do not hesitate to ask.

 Miss Ireland, Miss Stewart, Mr Minton, Mrs Armstrong and Miss Newbould.

Curriculum Web and Topic Knowledge Organisers for this half term

Please take a look at the wonderful things we will be learning about this half term.