Year 5 Update Week 8
Tuesdays 15th, 22nd, 29th October, 5th November– Swimming
Friday 18th October – PTA Welcome Bowling Event
Friday 25th October – CPD (School closed)
Monday-Wednesday 28th-30th October – School photos
Tuesday 12th November – Y5 Bake Sale
Friday 15th November – 5H Class Assembly
Tuesday-Friday 19th-22nd November – Y5 Camp
Friday 29th November– Wellbeing Day
Friday 6th December – PTA Disco
Wednesday 11th December – Christmas Concert
Thursday 12th December – Y5 Big Business Market (more info to follow)
Friday 13th December – Last Day of School (noon finish)
Ms Jeves is hosting a Graphic Novel Competition! Click on the link to find out more.
Ritu Hemnani: A Story About Migration
This week, we had the pleasure of a visit from Ritu Hemnani, a HK-based writer, journalist, teacher and voice actor. She shared with us Gope and Meera – A Migration Story and the inspirations behind the story. It was a very meaningful session where we learnt more about the different types of migration and the opportunities and challenges they might bring.
English and Maths
Others
Central Idea
Migration has an impact on people and society.
Lines of Inquiry
- The reasons why people migrate (causation)
- The challenges and opportunities of migration (change)
- The impact of migration on individuals and society (perspective)
Solo Taxonomy – Mr Pheasant
SOLO Taxonomy is a powerful model of learning that is both easy to use and highly effective in advancing and deepening learning across the curriculum. We will be reviewing where we are with our understanding into this unit and generate questions for personal inquiries.
Central Idea
Strategies for whole number computation can apply to fractional and decimal computation.
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
Here are some links to help you!
Central Idea
Accuracy of measurements depends on the situation and precision of the tool.
- How tools and procedures can be used to measure accurately.
- How tools and procedures can be used to solve measurement problems.
- The connection between measurements and other units of maths (conversion)
For the next few weeks we will be looking into connecting the 12 and 24 hour time to timetables, solving problems involving different in time and measuring, estimating and comparing angles.
We are continuing to make sense of what we read by applying our self-monitoring strategies. We are trying to do this when reading in the classroom from book stacks or class libraries, selecting books from the learning centre as well as researching online.
No Golden Book achievers this week due to CPD day.
House Points
- Read the Weekly Update
- Mathletics – continue with the set tasks
- Spelling – each week the children are sent home their 10 personal words that they need to learn for the week. Please, can a parent (or responsible adult) support the children by...testing them (written or oral), getting them to put their words into interesting sentences (written or oral), discussing the meanings of the words, thinking about synonyms and antonyms of that word, discussing words with a similar meaning etc.
- Reading – levelled home readers will be starting to come home soon. The children will be choosing levelled readers based on their own ability and are expected to read each night for at least 20mins at home with a parent. The children need to record their reading in their Reading Journals and parents can you please sign your child’s journal each night. Journals need to be returned to school each morning to be checked and will come home each evening (except Friday). Children may use Big Universe twice a week (only) as their choice of home reading.
- Mandarin Home Learning– All children are encouraged to take a reading book home on the days when they have Mandarin lessons.
Thought of the week
