If your child is unable to attend school for an extended period of time, please call the office on 0121 675 3573 and arrange a telephone meeting with Miss Furlong (5F) or Mrs Race (5R) to discuss your child’s learning.
The purpose of this unit is to provide an understanding of key systems in the human body. This will help the children to make lifestyle choices that promote a happy, healthy life.
Exploring space will instil a sense of awe and help the children to understand their place in the universe. Furthermore, this unit provides the children with opportunities to set up their own scientific inquiries focused on gravity and air resistance.
We will focus on the human and physical geography of North and South America. We will explore Brazil in more detail and discuss the importance of the Amazon. We will spend time learning about the Amazon river. By the end, children will be able to label the features of a river.
Children will be focusing on story-writing this half term, taking inspiration from real-life events: namely the destruction of the House of Wisdom by the Mongolian army. Children will practise using commas to show parenthesis and noun phrases to help produce high-quality writing.
Children will be reading ‘Evil Star’ by Anthony Horowitz. We will be using this text, along with a range of non-fiction and poetry, to practise answering a range of retrieval, inference and vocabulary questions.
Children will begin the half-term by finishing our work on fractions, decimals and percentages. We will be learning to find percentage and decimal equivalents of 1/2, 1/4, 1/5, 2/5 and 4/5 along with fractions with a denominator of a multiple of 10 or 25. We will then move on to building children’s existing knowledge of properties of shape.
Physical activity not only improves health, reduces stress and improves concentration, but also promotes correct physical growth and development. Exercise has a positive influence on academic achievement, emotional stability and interaction with others.
5F will be doing PE on a Monday and a Wednesday. Please ensure that your child has their PE kit with them on these days. It would be useful if the children could bring in a pair of gym pumps and a pair of trainers.
5R will be doing PE on a Monday and a Wednesday. Please ensure that your child has their PE kit with them on these days. It would be useful if the children could bring in a pair of gym pumps and a pair of trainers.
You will be expected to record reading in your child’s diary. This is a fantastic resource for the children to use, but also key for parent and teacher communication. Please read with your child, at least 3 times per week and record this in their diary with further comments.
Listening to them read regularly
Asking them questions about what they have read
Encouraging them to keep a diary
Practising spellings
Help them to learn their times tables by using Times Table Rockstars
Exploring educational websites
Good attendance and punctuality is essential to help your child achieve the best they possibly can.
Every week the attendance cup is awarded to the class with the best attendance – hopefully our class can win the cup lots of times this coming term!
We will also be awarded points in the Punctuality League. Let’s see if we can beat last year’s score.
Please ensure children wear the correct school uniform, including black shoes and plain socks. Jewellery must not be worn. Please label all items so that they can be easily reacquainted with children if they are mislaid. This includes the inside of coats, shoes, hats, gloves and scarves.
Children can achieve house points for trying hard with their work!
We aim to teach the children about the benefits of a healthy lifestyle. With this in mind, our fantastic chef provides a range of healthy snacks. Snack for juniors is charged at £0.25 per day.
To pay for your child’s snack, please log in to their Scopay account. Please speak to the office if you do not have your Scopay log in details.
We are committed to providing excellent food that is healthy, tasty, nutritionally balanced and is presented in an attractive way that the children will enjoy. A School Dinner is currently £2.50 per day and order online via Scopay.
Children can achieve reward stamps for trying hard with their behaviour! Every time they collect 50 stamps, they are awarded with a certificate.
You can vsit our school calendar for up to date events.