Year 5 - Giraffe & Kangaroo class

Welcome to Year 5

Mrs Burdett teaches Kangaroo Class with support from Mrs Hall

Mr Warren teaches Giraffe Class. with support from Mrs Proctor

Mrs Vearncombe and Mr Loraine support across both classes.

Teachers can be contacted on the following email addresses

jburdett@eastoverschool.co.uk

pwarren@eastoverschool.co.uk

What's happening this term

English - Our second unit, leading up to Christmas, has us exploring one of our class texts - Anglo Saxon Boy. We will infer some information about some of the characters before looking at the events of the Battle of Hastings to produce a newspaper report

Maths - This term will be focused heavily on times tables and division. We will use these operations to solve problems involving fractions.

Science - We explore our understanding of the properties of materials. This will involve carrying out a number of practical experiments to do with insulation as well as reversible and irreversible changes.

Geography - Our second unit has us jumping back to the Dark Ages. Looking at life as an Anglo Saxon, the importance of the Sutton Hoo and Staffordshire Hoard discoveries before a visit from a viking.

RE - We will explore Christianity and what it means to be a Christian.

ICT - We will using scratch coding to create an algorithm to count in Roman Numerals and numbers simultaneously

Art - We will be exploring what is typography and applying this to creating our own styles of typography before we apply them to a map of our creation.

Accelerated Reader

Reading in years 3-6

At the beginning of every new school year(in Key Stage Two) your child will complete a reading assessment called 'The Star Reading Test'. STAR Reading is a computerised reading assessment.

Questions continually adjust to your child’s responses. If the child’s response is correct, the difficulty level is increased. If the child misses a question, the difficulty level is reduced. The test uses multiple-choice questions and takes approximately 20 minutes. Your child will re-test on The Star Reading Test every half term.

The Star Reading Test will give your child a ZPD (Zone of proximal development) The ZPD is the range of books that will challenge a child without causing frustration or loss of motivation.

Your child then picks a book at his/her own level and reads it at his/her own pace. They can choose any book within the range and read through the levels at their own pace. When finished, your child takes a short quiz on the computer – passing the quiz is an indication that your child has understood what has been read.

Homework

Children in Y3- Y6 have the following homework each night. Please record in the children’s yellow books that all the tasks have been completed. If your child wishes to do more homework or spend longer on each task, or complete their own tasks afterwards, this would be excellent! Please note, additional tasks linked to other subjects may be sent out by class teachers.

10 minutes of TT Rockstars or Doodle practice for those with a log in

10 minutes of spelling practice

If you have any problems, please ask!

Important websites

TTRockstars

Accelerated Reading Quizzing

Emile Spellings

Year 5 - Giraffe & Kangaroo class

Anglo Saxon / Viking Day

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