Miss Milovanovic, Mr Chambers, Miss Watt and Mrs Corke welcome you to our class and to our web page! Have a look around and please contact one of the team if you have any questions. 

Thursday - Forest School

Friday - PE (wear your kit to school). Learning log due and sent out every other week.  

Our Curriculum

TOPIC - Space Odyssey

READING 

This half term, we will be reading the fiction text THE JAMIE DRAKE EQUATION by Christopher Edge. 

A cosmic adventure for anyone who's ever looked at the stars

Rocket launches, zero gravity and flying through space like a superhero! Jamie Drake’s dad is orbiting the Earth in the International Space Station and Jamie ought to think it’s cool but he just really misses him… Hanging out at his local observatory, Jamie picks up a strange signal on his phone. It looks like alien life might be getting closer to home. But space is a dangerous place and when his dad’s mission goes wrong, can Jamie prove that he’s a hero too?

 In reading lessons we will be focusing on our VIPERS skills: vocabulary, inference, prediction, explanation, retrieval and summary.

We expect children to read at home at least three times per week and reading records to be filled in. 

WRITING

In writing this half term, our writing will be linked to our learning. We will cover these genres:

1. A narrative based on the Disney short film, La Luna.
2. An informal letter inspired by our class book, The Jamie Drake Equation.
3. Space poetry inspired by Pie Corbett's Six Ways To Look At The Moon.

Below are the year 5/6 statutory spellings:

Maths

This year, we will be continuing our Power Maths scheme which focuses on reasoning and looking at questions in different ways.  

This half term's focus will be Multiplication, Division, and Fractions.

We expect the children to use Times Table Rockstars at least twice weekly but please see Miss Milovanovic if you would like any further help.

Homework

•  Reading at home at least 3 times per week.
• Times Tables Rockstars at least twice per week. 
• Learning Log tasks are given out every two weeks.

Learning Logs are available to view on Class Dojo.

PE Kits

Year 5 have PE on a  afternoon Friday in Spring 2. They will need to wear:
 

- a plain white t-shirt
- plain black tracksuit bottoms or black PE shorts (no leggings please)
- a plain black jumper or tracksuit top 
- trainers

No logos or names on their tops, jumpers or bottoms please.

If you do not have a plain black jumper, children can wear their school jumpers as an alternative.