Year 5: Satellite Class
Class teacher: Mrs Thomas / Mrs Browning
Class teaching assistant: Miss Hughes
Satellite class
Welcome to Satellite class! Here you will find our newsletters, photos of our topic work and any important information about our class. Satellite class is taught by Mrs Browning on a Monday and Mrs Thomas on Tuesday to Friday. Please pop back here (as well as having a look at our class photos tab) to see what we have been getting up to during the year.
This term:
During this term (Spring 2), Year 5 will be covering lots of different areas of the curriculum. Our learning will all be based around our new topic "Polluted Planet". This topic has a geographical focus looking at pollution, the environment, and partaking in a field study. Using Excel will be our computing focus this term, creating and using formulae to interpret data. A DT project will focus on researching, planning and evaluating packaging to suit a particular purpose; whilst in art we will study the sculptor Robin Wight, before designing and making a sculpture.
Maths
In maths this term our main focus is fractions, decimals and percentages. After this, we will move onto geometry. One day a week, the lesson focus will be on reasoning questions and mental arithmetic (10 in 10s).
English
In English, our learning is based around the book "Song of a Dolphin Boy" by Elizabeth Laird. This will be the inspiration for our writing, as well as our focus text in guided reading. We will be recapping and practising previous skills, such as: compound sentences, ISPACE sentence starters, subordinating conjunctions, relative clauses and paragraphing. We will explore these skills through a range of different diary extracts, working towards writing our own diary extract linked to the book and our topic: Polluted Planet.
Important Class Information:
PE Days: Mondays and Tuesdays. Children need to come to school wearing their PE kit.
Reading Books: reading books will be changed on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays.
Homework: A homework grid for this term is attached below. Comprehension texts will continue to be set for the children to complete regularly on Rockerbox at home.
Reading: Please continue to listen to your child read daily, even for 10 minutes, and encourage them to complete the reading task in the reading journal. Books should be changed regularly.
Times Tables: It is important all pupils are learning (and continue to practice) the timetables up to the 12 times table. These should be known by the end of year 4 but it is essential that the children continue to practice and recall these facts.
Regular practise on Times Tables Rock Stars (TTRS) helps pupils to retain knowledge and helps them to utilise these facts in other mathematical learning. Please encourage your child to log in regularly - even if only for a few minutes each time.
Useful websites for times table practise:
Thank you for your continued support. Please don't hesitate to contact us if you have any queries.
Key Dates:
Monday 24th February - Performance of Treasure Island for the whole school.
Thursday 27th February - Choir trip to Young Voices
Thursday 6th March - World Book Day (wear pj's)
Tuesday 18th March - Parents Evening 3.30-6pm
Thursday 20th March - Parents Evening 5.00-8.00pm
Friday 21st March - INSET Day
W/C Monday 31st March - Last week of clubs
Monday 7th April - Parents Open Afternoon
Friday 11th April - Break up for Easter holidays @ 2pm