Mrs Smith & Mrs Lawry

Please make sure your child has all the correct equipment they need in their pencil case. 

Most importantly, they need a handwriting pen, a sharp pencil, a ruler and a red pen.

Key Dates

*NEW* PE Days are Wednesday and Thursday

Wednesday 23rd September - Swimming

Please bring ONLY your swimming kit including swimming hat and goggles in a small, named bag.  Due to the tight turnaround with getting back to school, the children do not have time to shower. 

You should also wear your PE kit to school on this day.

Home Learning

Home learning is designed to support and extend the children's learning in class.  Although it isn't compulsory, it will help your child to build good homework habits in preparation for secondary school. 

The deadline for homework is Thursdays and new challenges will be posted on Fridays.

Reading: 20-30 minutes reading daily.  Remember to complete a different Blooms Question every time you finish a book.  Your response should be longer than a sentence and show evidence that you have read the story!

English: Practise spelling words with the letter string -ough.  There is a homework sheet at the bottom of this page, or you can complete the assignment set on Spelling Shed.

Maths: Design a new card game that helps you practise your mental maths.  For bonus house points, write a set of instructions that we can keep in class!

Picture News

Class Reader

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A taste of our learning

Autumn Term Week 3

Introducing our new Swift Parliament!  Congratulations to all who put themselves forward and were voted in.  Disappointingly, we had two positions that weren't filled, so our School Parliament is smaller than it has been previously.  I'm hoping that there will be a bigger uptake on our Play Leader positions when they come up in a few weeks - I know we have lots of budding House Captains in the making...

To support the children in understanding the role, this year all of Year 5 will benefit from the Play Leader training on 14th October. They will then be given an opportunity to apply to become a Play Leader if they think this could be the role for them. More details to follow!

Do you know how old the Earth is?  In Science, we looked at key events in Earth's history and tried to get our heads around how long humans have been on Earth compared to when life first appeared.  In groups, the Swifties had to add key events to a timeline of 5 billion years, with each centimetre representing 10 million years!

Autumn Term Week 2

Our class charters are now complete and can be found at the bottom of this page.  All the votes are also now in for our positions of responsibility so congratulations to all who were successful and a huge well done to everyone who put themselves forward to deliver their speeches.

The 'Meet the Teacher' slides can also be found at the end of this page for any of you who couldn't make the meeting on Monday.

The Swifts have been working really hard in class this week.  In PSHE we met our first People Project person - Harriet Tubman - who was an American abolitionist and equal rights activist.  She was born into slavery but managed to escape through an 'Underground Railroad' which was a network of secret safe houses called stations and kind people who wanted to help enslaved people escape the slave states.  Harriet later became one of the most successful conductors of the Underground Railroad, helping hundreds of enslaved people to freedom.  The Swifts designed a square as part of a Peace Quilt to represent Harriet's life achievements.

Autumn Term Week 1

What a great start to the school year the Swifties have had!  They have come in organised, calm and ready to learn.  This week we have been getting to know each other and embedding our daily routines ready to hit the ground running with our learning next week.  One thing we spent time looking at was our Year 5 Learning Behaviours.  As a class we decided that, in order to reach our full potential in Year 5, we need to be: collaborative, focused, positive, resilient and respectful.  It's definitely going to be a  great year!