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• Welcome to Year 5
• UKS2 Christmas Video 2021
• Learning Journey Summer 1
• Newsletter Summer 1
• Project Homework

     Welcome to Year 5

Mrs Williams

and

Miss Williams

To get in contact with the class please email:

sycamore@whitbyheath.cheshire.sch.uk

Summer 1

Our enquiry question this half term is

 How can we reduce climate change to save our future? 

This is a Geography based unit in which we explore climate zones and the biomes across our planet and explore the impact of global warming. 

 In Science

Our topic will be Animals, including humans with a focus on life cycles 

Our English text is ' The Hunter' by  Paul Geraghty and our Guided Redaing text

is 'African Tales, a Barefoot Collection' by Gcina Mhlophe .

PE days

During Summer term PE will be on Mondays (indoor lesson) and Thursdays (outdoor lesson).

Please come in your PE kit on these days and ensure you are wearing the correct kit:

Black pumps for indoor lessons

Trainers for outdoor lessons

A plain white T-shirt

Plain black shorts

A plain black, blue or grey tracksuit

PE school fleeces

SeeSaw

Seesaw is our new virtual classroom, we will be using it in school and at home. Teachers are able to set work, mark, leave comments and make announcments about school on here. All parents need to give permission for children to use the app.

We will be using this app to set English based homework every week and Maths homework on alternative weeks with Mathletics. 

Reading

- Reading at home should be done as frequently as possible. Children should bring their reading book and reading record to school every day and take them home each night. We are aiming for 5 a week and children will receive team points based on how many times they read at home in a week. 

-Bug Club is an exciting online reading resource with interesting books and reading activities. Your child knows their password and how to use the different resources on there.

Maths

- Mathletics is updated regularly with tasks. Children know their login username and passwords but can check with me. They should login and complete their assigned tasks before progressing on to Live Mathletics...let's see how many points we can get! Click on the logo to go there now!

Times Tables rockstar- A fantastic app/ website that lets us battle each other and test our times table knowledge, each child has been given their own individual login and can play individual games and try to beat their score or challenege others from all over the world in a safe environment. This has had a positive impact on our times table knowledge in school. The children will be tested on their times tables knowledge each Monday and Wednesday.