Welcome to Year 5- Morpurgo Class

Year 5's day begins with Maths Club in the Year 5 classroom, starting promptly at 8.20am. You can enter through the Year 5 outside door entrance. I would like all Year 5 to attend so please encourage your child to come.

White Rose '1 Minute Maths' is a fantastic way for the children to build greater number confidence and fluency. It’s all about targeted practice in engaging, one-minute chunks! I would like all Year 5 to have a go with this at home. It can be downloaded as an app on a device or accessed through the website (link below).

You can use this page of the website to find out about Year 5's weekly timetable (see below), what we have been learning about during the current term and find out what each week's homework is (which will be given out every Friday and needs to be returned the following Thursday).

Reading books should be in school everyday. They will be checked everyday and the Homework will be checked on a Friday.

The link for AR website is below. The children can take a end of book quiz at home if they like. Their score will be updated on the AR website.

Wednesday will be Yr 5's PE day, so please ensure that all children come to school with trainers, a tracksuit (if the weather is colder) and if possible earrings removed. Please ensure long hair is tied back.

If you have any questions or concerns, please do not hesitate to come and talk to us. We will be happy to help.

We are looking forward to an exciting year together!

Mrs Davison and Ms Miles 

Welcome back to term 2

Our topic this term is 'Antarctica'. We have begun our learning by looking at a focus text based on The Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition between 1914-1917 where Sir Ernest Shackleton and his crew attempted to make the first land crossing of the Antarctic continent.

We are learning this alongside some other interesting topics in RE, art, science and computing, please see the medium term plans attached for more information. 

I am setting a class challenge to make their own icebergs at home. If you fancy a fun challenge, please click the link below and try out the iceberg experiment. If you can, please feel free to take photographs and send them in for the class to see on our learning wall.

https://onlypassionatecuriosity.com/instant-ice-science-experiment-for-kids/

Some reminders:

• PE is on a Monday afternoon. As the weather is colder, please send in appropriate trousers and jumpers (inc trainers)
• Children must attend school in the correct school uniform.
• Children should read 5 times a week for 20 minutes each time and record this in the reading record books.
• Homework is given on a Friday and due back the following Thursday.

If you have any questions or concerns, please feel free to talk to me at the end of the school day. There is a member of staff to relay messages at the door in the mornings. 

Thank you,

Mrs Hill and Mrs Thurlow

Term 5

Welcome to term five! We hope everybody had a wonderful break and are ready for a great term ahead. In English we're exploring a new text called 'Goodnight Mister Tom' by Michelle Magorian, which is a novel set in World War 2. The children are also studying this topic in History which helps bridge their learning between the two subjects.

We began unpacking this novel by focusing on the life experiences of an evacuee child during the War. As a result, we also did role-play which was an opportunity for the children to put themselves in their shoes and understand what each child would have gone through during that time. We learnt about the identity tags that they used to carry with them and how they had to pack their belongings in a small suitcase or a pillowcase if they were poor.

During the week, we took these experiences and transformed them into a diary entry written in the role of an evacuee child. The challenge was also to use expanded noun phrases in this piece of writing. Take a look at some of the examples of year 5's work: