autumn y5 2011

Welcome back Y5!

Autumn term 2 2010

RMS Titanic

Can you find out how many of the passengers and crew survived the disaster?

This half term we will be basing our learning around the famous RMS Titanic. This is a brand new topic for year 5 and we are very excited about it.

Can you use the internet to find out the names of any of the passengers and information about them?

We will be investigating how the Titanic was built, who sailed her, the crew and of course the disastrous voyage!

Magical maths!…

We were really pleased with the homework that year 5 produced on the E-zone last half term.

Literacy homework will still be sent out on a Friday to be returned Wednesday.

Numeracy homework will also be sent out on a Friday to be returned Wednesday.

In addition to maths and literacy homework we will be asking children to do a ‘Creative Curriculum Project’ This is a free choice project that you can be working on all half term. Last half term we had some amazing WW2 projects. We are excited to see what you all think of this half term

Creative curriculum projects: Due for presentation on/before Monday 10th December If you have forgotten how to access the E zone there is a reminder on your class whiteboards.

The Monteney year of numeracy has got off to a flying start, we really have all really enjoyed the games and activities in the numeracy area.

This half term we will be learning about the following thing in numeracy: • • • •

Division Fractions Data Handling and Graphs And Coordinates.

Remember there are lots of activities on Education city and the E zone for you to continue with your learning at home!

We really enjoyed studying poetry last half term in our literacy lessons. We had fun with words and chuckled at the poems by Michael Rosen. This half term we will be looking at different non-fiction texts. We will be starting to look at recounts based on ‘Honey I shrunk the Kids’ and the ‘Titanic.’

This half term we will be continuing to develop our French skills.

We have been learning different classroom commands and have been doing our register in French.

This half term we will be focussing on: • Introductions • Talking about myself.

• Dates and numbers.

• Christmas in France • Learning simple French songs and rhymes.

This half term our S.E.A.L theme is ‘getting on and falling out.’ We will be talking about the different ways we can get on with people and ways to avoid falling out. We will try to use these skills both in and out of school.

Our S.E.A.L theme links in well with our Key skill this half term which is ‘Collaboration.’ We will be doing lots of different activities and games that will develop teamwork and collaboration.

P.E. This half term in PE we will be doing: Tag Rugby Gymnastics

IMPORTANT NOTE...

Over the last few weeks we have noticed an increase in the number of children wanting to borrow all or part of a PE kit from children in other classes. This is beginning to become disruptive to other lessons and is unfair on the majority children who do bring and look after their kit. Please make sure that your child has the correct P.E. kit here everyday. This should include a plain white/blue T-shirt, plain black/blue shorts and black pumps.

Children CAN NOT wear the same t-shirt/shoes they wear as their school uniform.

If you wish, your child can have tracksuit bottoms and trainers in their PE kit for these occasions. They do however always need pumps and plain shorts for indoor PE. Due to hall space being used for Christmas rehearsals it is likely that some of our P.E lessons will be outside. Your child can bring joggers and tracksuits jackets, or any other warm clothing for these lessons and can be kept in school with their normal P.E kit.