Unique Butterflies (Year 5)

Autumn 1 Newsletter

Welcome back to a new academic year!

A warm welcome from the Year 5 team - Miss Ireland, Mrs Smith, Mrs Armstrong and Mrs Bartley.  We hope that you all had a great summer holiday and the children are raring to go and keen to start Year 5.  We are sure that this year will be a positive one filled with lots of learning and fun.

We kick start this year with a new topic based on the groovy Greeks!  In this topic, we will be exploring when the ancient Greek civilisation began and ended and look at the main time periods it can be split into.  We will then study the similarities and differences between key city states (Athens and Sparta) and the significance of Alexander the Great and his development of the ancient Greek empire.  To conclude this unit of work, we will learn all about the legacies left behind by the ancient Greeks, for example, democracy and the Olympics to name but a few.

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 times a week and make a note in 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. 

Reading Challenge

The reading challenge in Year 5 is to read 200 times at home! The milestones are:

Bronze 50 reads, Silver 120 reads, Gold 200 reads. Children will be given a 200 square record. When your child has read at home please initial one square and write a comment in their reading record. The reading challenge will be stamped every Wednesday when scores are recorded. Children will be awarded with a certificate during celebration assembly!  You can do it Unique Butterflies!

Targets:

 Reading

Science

Homework: 

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

Spellings:

Spellings will be handed out on a Friday to the children (paper copies) and a spelling shed activity will be set online. These spellings will be tested the following Friday.  The expectation is all children will get 5 or 6 out of 6 correct every week.  Spelling Overviews for the term, will also be posted on class Dojo at the beginning of each term.

Coming soon, will be a copy of the words that children need to spell correctly in Years 5 & 6.  Some of these will be sent home for the spelling tests, but you may want to work through them with your child as they will need to use them in their writing during UKS2.

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, outdoor PE will be on a Tuesday afternoon and indoor on a Wednesday afternoon. Please ensure your child comes to school in their PE kit on these days (plain coloured house top).  Long hair must be tied back and earrings should be removed.

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

Mrs Smith and Miss Ireland

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.