Mrs Smith & Mrs Lawry

Key Dates

PE Days are Tuesdays and Thursdays (for the first two weeks until swimming starts)

7^th September - Meet the Teacher @ 2.45pm

16^th September - Swimming starts for 6 weeks

Home Learning

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: Have a look at the Year 5 & 6 Statutory Word List at the bottom of this page.  Do you know the meaning of them all?  Which can you already spell? Select up to 10 that you are going to try and use in your writing this term and practise spelling them.

Maths: Play games that test your mental arithmetic - this could be online or board games.  You could even use a pack of cards to help you practise adding several numbers together in your head, or to practise your times tables.

Picture News

Our Picture News Assemblies will start next week, but for now, have a look at this poster celebrating the life of Dolly Parton.  What impact do you think she has had?  What can we learn from her legacy?

Class Reader

On Monday we will start our new Literacy Unit where we will be learning how to write in role as a character from the story.  I wonder what book it will be?...

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A taste of our learning

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!