Class 5

This week, our children have done an excellent job of being mindful of their year 6 neighbours completing their mock SATs in the classroom next door, whilst doing some of their own great learning.

Next week, they will be taking the setting descriptions they have been working hard on, and sharing them with a very special audience: Year 3. They are bound to be impressed - the children have used some thoughtful and often quite eloquent vocabulary choices to describe their chosen forest.

Dates this half term:

Thursday 13th, Monday 17th, Tuesday 18th and Wednesday 19th - Book Fair after school each day

Friday 14th - Occasional Day - School CLOSED

Monday 17th - Open Book Afternoon

Monday 24th-Friday 28th - Year 5 Bikeability

Monday 31st March - Friday 4th April - Creative Arts Week

Friday 4th April - Easter Service 10am

Break up for Easter Holidays at 1:30pm

All the best,

Miss Newman

Mrs. Eder

Miss Walters

Mrs. Robinson

Our children on World Book Day

Home learning: set 13th March, due 18th March (Spelling test: 20th March).

Home Learning to be handed in on Tuesday 18^th March 2025
This week the children have been set an activity named “Calculating perimeter” on MyMaths. It is not our intention for home learning to cause unnecessary anxiety in the household, therefore if there any concerns, please ensure you speak to the teacher in advance of the Tuesday deadline to ensure we can put the necessary support in place.
Weekly expectations
Times tables	Reading
Please ensure your child practises their times tables daily on TTRS. This only needs to be for 5/ 10 minutes per day but daily practice is proven to lead to greater fluency.	Please ensure your child has read a minimum of 5 times and logged it into their reading record. Reading is the key to them accessing the full curriculum and they will struggle with further learning without the necessary practice.
Spellings- these will be tested on Thursdays. Please ensure they have been practised prior to this. Please complete activities on Spelling Shed, using the login in the reading record.
Group A spellings	Group B spellings
build	ancient
describe	amateur
imagine	awkward
library	criticise
natural	equipment
ordinary	excellent
promise	foreign
recent	pronunciation
suppose	symbol
weight	yacht
Reminders
PE is now on Wednesdays and Thursdays.
Happy learning! Miss Newman, Mrs Eder, Mrs Walters and Mrs Robinson

Home learning: set 6th March, due Tuesday 11th March (spelling test Thursday 13th March).

Home Learning to be handed in on Tuesday 11^th March 2025
This week the children have been set an activity named “Volume and Capacity” on MyMaths. It is not our intention for home learning to cause unnecessary anxiety in the household, therefore if there any concerns, please ensure you speak to the teacher in advance of the Tuesday deadline to ensure we can put the necessary support in place.
Weekly expectations
Times tables	Reading
Please ensure your child practises their times tables daily on TTRS. This only needs to be for 5/ 10 minutes per day but daily practice is proven to lead to greater fluency.	Please ensure your child has read a minimum of 5 times and logged it into their reading record. Reading is the key to them accessing the full curriculum and they will struggle with further learning without the necessary practice.
Spellings- these will be tested on Thursdays. Please ensure they have been practised prior to this. Please complete activities on Spelling Shed, using the login in the reading record.
Group A spellings	Group B spellings
great	ascend
main	autumn
grown	build
missed	disciple
meet	doubt
grate	island
mane	lamb
groan	receipt
mist	solemn
meat	thistle
Reminders
PE is now on Wednesdays and Thursdays.
Happy learning! Miss Newman, Mrs Eder, Mrs Walters and Mrs Robinson

Spelling strategies:

Practising regularly throughout the week, not just once
Spotting groups of letters that are common to each word, and focusing on the bits that are different (eg if we are learning '-sion' words we can memorise these letters, then look at the initial letters in words such as confusion and illusion)
Thinking of 'hooks' that can help them remember particular spellings - perhaps something they think it sounds like, or a funny way of saying it.
The 'look, cover, write, check' technique where children try to write out the words correctly from memory and then compare them to the original
Asking someone to test them, and then going back to re-learn the words they got wrong.

Please remember that these strategies will all complement the use of the Spelling Shed web site, where learning games are set to support the spellings every week.