Year 5

WELCOME TO YEAR 5

Welcome to Year 5!

In Autumn 1 our topic will be Ancient Egypt.  As a year group we will be having a workshop in school on the Tuesday 8^th October. This will give the pupils an excellent opportunity to gain first-hand experience of handling Ancient Egyptian artefacts and learning more about everyday life.

In other subjects...

Literacy - Writing of mystery stories, grammar- identifying and using different sentence structures.

Maths - Place Value - rounding numbers to the nearest 10,100,1000, comparing and ordering numbers, negative numbers and Roman numerals

Science- Forces and Space

Art - colour mixing, drawing, ,making cartouches and masks

RE - Expressions of Faith

PE

Dates for PE are Wednesday and Thursday.

On Wednesday 18^th September we will also be starting our swimming lessons which will be held at Riddings Pool. The children will have a wonderful opportunity of undertaking an intense course. They will take place twice a week, every Wednesday and Friday for five weeks.

Gardening Club - Throughout the term, children will also get the chance to take part in Gardening club.

Homework

Times table and spelling tests will take place on a Friday. Reading records will also be checked on a Friday with the expectation that pupils to have their reading diaries signed on a least two separate occasions.

 All tests can be found in the children’s homework books. Optional homework on Ancient Egypt can also be found in homework books.

Many Thanks  

Mr I  Snowden Mrs J Watson