Welcome to Year 5

This term, our Christian Value is:   Friendship 

This term, our Topic is:   Save Our Planet! 

Our class:

Your teacher is: Mrs Foy

Your teaching assistants are:  

                                                                  Miss Lloyd (am/pm)

                                                                  Miss Weatherley (Fridays) 

Our learning this week:

Maths

This week, we consolidated our learning of position and direction and have moved onto learning about decimals and how to successfully add and subtract them. Please do encourage children at home to go through properties of shape, testing their understanding of names, vertices, edges and faces. I have uploaded some posters to support this on the homework tab. 

English

This week, children wrote persuasive letters to Mrs Bourner. The letters were written to benefit the school community and playground environmentally. Children put forward some fantastic ideas and suggestions for how we could improve our school to help the cause of tackling climate change. 

Topic 

This week, children learnt all about King Charles III 'The Green King', The Terra Carta and the work King Charles has done to be considered an environmental leader.

Reading

We completed completed targeted comprehension questions this week.

We read another two chapters of Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, as part of our early morning work. 

RE

This week, children created and designed their own Pilgrimages! 

PE

We began choreographing our dance for the Lion King production this week! 

Spellings for 13/06/25:

convenience

correspond

criticise

curiosity

desperate

determined

dictionary

disastrous

embarrass

environment