Year 5 Update Wk 16
- Tuesday 13th December – UOI 2 Reports on The Gateway
- Tuesday 13th December – end of term 12pm finish…..MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL!!!
- Tuesday 3rd January – start of Term 2
- Thursday 26th January – China Day at BHS and last day before Chinese New Year
- Friday 27th Jan – Mon 6th Feb – Chinese New Year Break
- Friday 31st March – end of Term 2, 12pm finish
Mrs McKinnon would like to thank you all for being such wonderful, support and caring partners in your children’s education. Mrs Craig will be in 5M after the holidays and we wish her well.
Central Idea:
People’s actions can impact our water resources
Lines of Inquiry:
How water changes (change)
Responsibilities regarding water (responsibility)
Distribution, availability of, and access to, usable water (connection)
Building on from the work covered this week the children will be investigating filtration and will be challenged with filtering/cleaning dirty water. The children will be encouraged to make links between the natural filtration of water in the water cycle and man made ways to clean water.
An inquiry into:
- Efficient Mental strategies that can be used to solve addition and subtraction of decimal fractions
- Efficient Written strategies that can be used to solve addition and subtraction decimal fractions
- Rules for patterns to predict future terms
Model addition and subtraction of decimal fractions up to hundredths
Solve addition problems (including real life and word) involving decimals in the form of money and measurement
Solve subtraction problems (including real life and word) involving decimals in the form of money and measurement
Use estimation and rounding to check the reasonableness of answers to calculations
Our reading focus will be on synthesising information from different texts and also how to successfully combine new and existing knowledge in an effective way. Children will be building knowledge of the purpose and function of non chronological reports and all the different forms they can come in.
Well done to our Golden book winners this week
Please continue to read over the holidays.
Important Reminder – School Snacks and Lunches
At Beacon Hill School have a number of children who are allergic to nuts. When preparing snacks and lunches for your children please avoid using nut products like Nutella and peanut butter. We thank you for your cooperation.
