Year 5 News

 

 

Have your children told you about our first Golden assembly?  Grace, Wesley, Molly, Callum, Amelia and Tear all got a special mention, Eric won the first Golden Star award and Boyd won a book in the reading raffle.  On top of all that, Year 5 are the first winners of the transition award!  The children are most excited about being able to sit on the benches in assembly next week.  Can we be good role models when moving around school again next week?  We are working hard to stay on the Golden Door too and enjoy Golden Time.  23 children had 100% attendance this week.  Let's see if we can beat that next week and win our first golden star for attendance.  We had only 14 children in the reading raffle.  Please encourage your child to read over the weekend and each evening so that we can increase our chances next week.

 

 

The children did a much better job with their spellings this week. Nearly everyone improved their score from last week and Gracie, Molly, Grace, Eric, Millie, Alfie and Callum were all super spellers.  Next week there will be some more homophones to learn.  Please help your children to learn which spelling is for which definition so that they can be super spellers next Friday.

 

Our English homework this week focusses on modal verbs which is something we have been working on in school.  We have learnt about so much in maths this week that the homework involves several different activities, some trickier than others.  Please help your child to have a go at the first part of this sheet.  Some children may want to complete the rest of the sheet too. There is also a new game to play on Abacus Active Learn, Bubble Burst.  And don't forget that Times Tables Rock Stars is always waiting for players.  Blake, Grace and Lily won places at the Rock Stars disco on Monday for the fastest time, the most frequent player and the most improved time.  Look out for a battle which could start at any time!

 

 

Thanks to Molly, Stan and Eric for returning their completed moon diaries.  They really helped with our work on the phases of the moon this week.  Ask your child if they can name the phase next time they notice the moon in the sky.  They can find some animations to help with this and other space concepts at http://www.childrensuniversity.manchester.ac.uk/learning-activities/science/the-earth-and-beyond/introduction/

 

I hope you have received your parent teacher interview appointments.  I still have some appointments left if you would like to come and discuss your child's progress at school on Tuesday or Wednesday next week.