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Welcome to Year 5!
Meet the Staff!
Miss I Burgon - Year Five class teacher
Mrs A Golding - Teaching Assistant
Please note that our PE days for this half term is Tuesday Remember to come to school already changed into your PE kit on your PE days. Swimming will begin on Tuesday 22nd, don't forget to bring your swimming kit with you to school on that day! Other swimming days are: 29th April and 6th, 13th and 20th May.
Our Topic this Term is Amazon Rainforest
Homework: A homework sheet will be given out at the start of term. One piece per week to be completed until the end of term.
In Literacy, the children will read a range of texts based around our Rainforest topic
The texts that we will be studying are ‘One Plastic Bag and ‘The Explorer’.
Our first book tells the true story of how one woman in Africa began a movement to recycle the plastic bags that were polluting her community. In Isatou Ceesay's village was becoming cluttered up with discarded plastic bags, causing problems for animals and attracting disease-bearing insects.
The second book, Explorer, tells the story of four children and one pilot, that crash land in the Amazon rainforest. At first, they must try and survive alone as the pilot died during the crash. After a long time of trying to survive alone they find a map… this map takes down the river on a raft, then they discover a ruined city, with a man that won’t tell them his name, so he is just the explorer. This man has secret which they will soon discover.
We will use the texts to develop our reading and writing skills.
We are covering the following skills in Numeracy this term:
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Shape Understand and use degrees Classify angles Estimate angles Measure angles up to 180° Draw lines and angles accurately Calculate angles around a point Calculate angles on a straight line Lengths and angles in shapes Regular and irregular polygons 3-D shapes Position and direction Read and plot coordinates Problem solving with coordinates Translation Translation with coordinates Lines of symmetry Reflection in horizontal and vertical lines
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It is ESSENTIAL that your child fluently knows their times tables both division facts and multiplication and have quick recall on these. This is ongoing homework for them and is vital to their progress this year - they should have their x tables rockstars password and every Friday whoever is the highest in their challenge group will be rewarded and they will be celebrated in class. If you do not have it then please email me.
We are very excited to be starting work on our new values system when we come back in school in January. Each week we have a new value – 12 in total. Our first value will be Respect. The children will have an assembly Monday morning about how to show and give respect to others both in school and at home! We will be expecting this to be demonstrated to all members of our Coppice community, it is important that even when we move onto a new value, the old one isn’t lost.
Our new core values will now form the basis of our ambassador passports (these have now been renamed – core value passports and the children can achieve their bronze, silver and gold awards throughout the year for each core value. We will of course keep you informed about how your child is getting on with this throughout the year.
Each week Mrs Seaton will sent out a Newsletter that will reflect the value we are working on so that it can also be supported at home. We look forward to seeing our children bright and early ready to embrace the new weekly challenges!
Reading: 
Reading as much as possible will really help your child’s progress at school. For their learning passport they must have read three times a week all term. It is very important that they understand what they are reading a few minutes spent asking questions about what has been read helps children to develop comprehension skills which are vital to their education. We also have a competition running in school each week. The number of times each child in the class each week is added up and the class that has read the most receives a prize in our Star Assembly on a Friday morning.
Key Dates
21st April – Bank Holiday Monday – School closed for the children.
22nd April– Back to school
29th April– Cross country competition after school.
5th May– Bank Holiday Monday – school closed for the children
23rd May– Last day of term
2nd June - Back to school
16th June - INSET day
18th June - Photograph Day
23rd June - Ancient Egyptian day
18th July - Sports Day
23rd July - Final day of the academic year!