This week, the children made a great start to their time in year 5, listening carefully and getting settled into daily routines quickly.

Next week, we have our first full week of the year so here are a few messages in order to get the children into good routines as soon as possible.

Uniform - please label all pieces of uniform as soon as possible so that any items the children misplace throughout the year have a better chance of making their way back to you. We try our best to make sure the children look after their clothes but there are many jumpers and coats left around the school each day so labelling them is a great idea. 

P.E. kit - again please label all items. P.E. kits should be sent into school on Monday and the children should bring them home to you on Friday. It's always good to have a change of clothes in school in case of emergency.

Home reading - both classes will have their login details for boomreader by the end of the day tomorrow. Please take 5 minutes to download the app and link it to your child so that you can log their home reading easily throughout the year. The children will receive a dojo every day they log an entry onto boomreader - this can be their school library book (which should be coming home with them every night) or a book of their own.

Spellings - the children now have their first set of spellings to learn - please spend a little time each day practising with them. Their first test will be on Monday 15th September and then tests will be every Monday after that.

Times tables - please spend a little time each night practising times table questions with the children. They will come home have a range of strategies they have been taught at school including singing, chanting and learning their table facts by rote. 

Next week:

In English, we will continue learning about brochures before planning ideas for our very own persuasive brochure.

In guided reading, we will start answering questions based around our new text, Percy Jackson - Lightning Thief.

In maths, we will continue learning about place value.

In history, we will continue our topic on Ancient Greece, looking at different sources of evidence and what they tell us about life in the past.

In P.E., we will start two new units this week, tag rugby and fitness.

In science, we will start looking at the properties of materials and how we can test these.

In computing, we will look at how computers are linked together to form systems.

In PSHE, we will look at how we are citizens of our country.

In Spanish, we will start a new unit of work looking at pets.

In Art, we will start our new unit of work by looking at line drawings.