4 Sep 2015

Year 5 Update Wk 3

Friday, 11th September – PTA Bowling Event 7:00pm

*Wednesday, 16th September – Guest Speaker Mr Tim Conroy-Stocker (ESF Ed. Psychologist)

Friday, 18th September – 5P Class Assembly 9:00am

Thursdays the 17th Sept, 8th, 15th & 29th Oct. – Swimming

*Please note that our guest speaker, Mr Conroy-Stocker will be coming in to visit the year 5’s on the 16th of September and not this Wednesday, due to some last minute scheduling changes.

To Do

Return signed swimming permission slips
Purchase PTA Bowling tickets if you’d like to come for some fun next Friday.
Fruity Friday – Next Friday the 11th will be our first ‘Fruity Friday’ where we have encouraged the students to bring in a fruit for snack. There will not be fruit sold on the day.

Thanks to all the parents who came for the meet the teacher evening on Tuesday. It was lovely to see you! If you couldn’t attend the evening, the presentations will soon be available on the school website. If you could please complete the home school profile and return it to school at your closest convenience, we’d appreciate it.

Transdisciplinary Theme: Who We Are

Central Idea: Developing skills may help us to learn about ourselves and help us to interact better with others.

Lines of Inquiry:

Mindful attention and its impact
The relationship between our sense, bodies and the way we think
Ways to apply mindful behaviours

We will continue to discuss and build the skills we need within different situations when interacting with others. We will touch upon the sense and how our bodies react in different situations. Through different drama activities and various mindful strategies we will focus on developing these skills.

decimal place value

Strand Maths: In order to identify, describe, classify and visualise the properties of quadrilaterals and triangles, we will practise using protractors to measure and draw angles.

Number Maths:

Mrs Pickering: Continue rounding whole and decimal numbers. Apply knowledge of place value to rename numbers to 1 000 000.

Ms Younie: To apply place value knowledge to tens of thousand numbers and begin to order negative numbers as well as identify everyday contexts.

Mrs Angell: Continue to recognise, model and order negative numbers and decimal fractions to hundredths or beyond.

Mr Pheasant: Continuing to identify numbers past a million, to partition those numbers accurately and moving onto recognising, modelling and ordering negative numbers and decimal fractions to hundredths or beyond.

We are continuing to identify and understand the different features of narrative texts. The children will begin to apply their knowledge to their own writing of parts of stories e.g. character descriptions, setting the scene, effective openings.

5A – Sabrina John: For settling into year 5 life with optimism and determination.

5Y – Lauren Stanion: For always being a polite and well mannered student towards staff and her classmates.

5P – Lawrence Kei: For sharing his intelligent thoughts and ideas during class discussions.

SLT Award – Michelle Lee 5A: For making sure that everyone felt welcoma and had a friend at breaktime – From Mr Pheasant

SLT Award – Sabrina John 5A: For always following instructions, first time, in PMP – From Mrs McLaughlin

As your children are now in the upper school, they are expected to be completing 30-45 minutes of homework each night. This will be made up of: approx 15-20 minutes reading with an adult, 10-15 spelling work, and their weekly assigned task.

This week’s homework:

Use the sheets and guide to make coloured quadrilaterals. Stick the shapes onto the black card to create a robot. Additional features can be added but must be quadrilateral shapes.