18 Sep 2015

Year 5 Update Wk 5

Important Dates

Monday 21st September– Dress Casual Day for Day of Peace
Tuesday 22nd September – Mid-autumn Festival Market Stall at school…children can bring some money to spend
Thursday 24th & Friday 25th September – Staff Training Days : school closed
Monday 28th September – Public holiday : school closed
Wednesday 30th September – Dress casual day : please bring money to support Community Chest
Thursday 1st October – Public holiday : school closed
Friday 2nd October – ESF Staff Training Day : school closed
Tuesday 6th October & Thursday 8th October : 3-Way Conferences (students need to attend) – you will need to sign up via The Gateway.

Please note that school will be closed on the following dates:

Thursday 24th September
Friday 25th September
Monday 28th September
Thursday 1st October
Friday 2nd October

5Y change of class assembly date- Our assembly will now be on Friday 26th February 2016.

Well done to 5P for putting together a fantastic assembly displaying the important message all about ‘Respect’ it is clear you have all been working very hard. Year 5 have been busy applying their knowledge of modern narrative texts to their own writing and have started to create their own stories which include mindful behaviour. Within our unit of inquiry we have discussed different strategies which would help us to resolve difficult or stressful situations. We were able to apply what we learned about being mindful with Tim Conroy Stocker.

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

Over the next few weeks we will be creating a social skills tool belt to help the children address a variety of social situations. They will also complete their final assessments and reflections.

Strand Maths: To help consolidate the children’s understanding of how to accurately measure angles we will be applying our skills through construction and diagrams of a variety of polyhedrons.

Number Maths: The children will be consolidating and assessed on the concepts within place value over the next two weeks.

Year 5 will continue to write and edit their own modern narratives. These will be shared and discussed with peers.

5Y: Keisha Buckland – for creating an original quadrilateral robot as part of her homework task

5P: Stacey Lau: for growing in confidence and hard working attitude.

5A: Katie Adams – for writing a piece of narrative text using excellent punctuated dialogue.

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:

1) This week’s homework is to re- watch the videos from 5P’s assembly:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=632CHpeHYZE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PT-HBl2TVtI
Discuss and reflect with an adult in order to complete the table.

2) Design a logo for our Y5 camp caps!

Information to be included: