Immanuel and St.

Andrew CE Primary School

Year 5 Class Bulletin
Term 5 2nd May 2011.

Dear Parents / Carers,

Welcome to Term 5. The year seems to be flying by rapidly and we can look forward to summer and the range of outdoor
activities that come with it! I would like to say thank you for all the effort put into the Easter homework. Please come into
the classroom and look at the creative ideas generated by you and your children.
Punctuality and attendance continue to improve and 18 children last term managed either 100 % attendance and or
punctuality. We have now finished our swimming lessons and all of the children managed to show some improvement in their
swimming skills or confidence in the water.
We have welcomed a range of new reading books into our classroom and the children are very enthusiastic about them. Mrs
Blakemore is in the process of organising a loan system, so that we know which books have been loaned. Once we have that
up and running, the children will begin to bring home our new books.
If you have any questions, queries or concerns, please come in and speak to me in the playground before school. You can
also email me on;
tlabinjo@immanuelschoollambeth.org.uk.
Ms T. Labinjo
Topics this term Important Notes
Knowledge and understanding of the world: World Homework
War Two continued. All homework will be set on Thursday and will be
(History and Geography) due back on Tuesday, unless the children are
Children will be learning about the leaders, key events and otherwise informed.
dates of the war. They will find out about the causes of The children should continue to use their homework
evacuation and explore the experiences and feelings of diaries. Please check their homework and sign the
evacuees from a wide range of information sources. They will diaries when it is completed.
Spellings will be given out with the homework on
also examine a range of sources to find out about the impact
Thursday and they will be tested the following
of rationing on the way of life of people living in England during
Thursday. They will need to bring in their green
WWII and consider how the war generally affected people’s
spelling book on Thursdays.
everyday lives. They will examine how the local area was
Reading Books
affected by the war, find out about the treatment of Jewish
Every Wednesday children will have the opportunity
people during the war.
to choose a book from the school library. Please
Science- Earth, sun and moon continued and Gases around
encourage the children to return the books on time.
us. They will also receive a new book from the school
The children will recognise that it is daylight in reading scheme on a Friday. It is very important
the part of the Earth facing the Sun, that the that children bring their books and book bags to
Moon orbits the Earth and identify patterns in school on a daily basis.
secondary data about sunrise and sunset. The Could I also encourage you to listen to your child read
children will learn that gases are a material and and question them about the text at home?
can be distinguished from solids and liquids by PE
their properties. They will also learn about the Outdoor P.E Tennis: Monday
uses of some important gases and where gases are Outdoor P.E Athletics: Wednesday
found.
Creative Development
(Art, Design and Technology)
The children will be involved in a special Olympic
project on some afternoons run by a specialist and
supported by Ms Davies
RE –
.
We will look at some of the parables and what Kit required: navy shorts/tracksuit bottoms, pale
they taught His listeners, and what they teach us blue t-shirt and trainers.
today.
 Dates for your Diaries

Hand bells Concert: 4th May

Class Trip to Imperial War Museum: Monday 9th May
Staff Run: Wednesday 18th May
(Race for Life)
Last day of Term: Friday 27th May
.

Science/ Music:
Designing and making
musical instruments.

Numeracy Literacy:
• The children will solve one and two step
In Literacy we will be developing skills in
problems involving whole numbers and
film Narrative:
decimals and any of the four operations.
• They will be able to solve simple
• We will watch the film The Piano by
problems involving fractions.
Aidan Gibbons. We will use key points
• They should be able to use a calculator
in the film to discuss features and
to find fractions of quantities and
themes.
measures. Sometimes this will involve a
• We will also explore approaches made
decimal answer that they have to
by the film-maker to create moods,
interpret.
pace and viewpoint.
• The children will record their steps and
• We will also use a reading journal to
results to share with others. For
record opinions of the narrative. The
example, they choose four different
children will work as part of a group to
digits, such as 7, 4, 3 and 2, to form
use drama strategies to explore
numbers and generate products. They
characters in depth.
experiment with 247 ! 3, 7! 24, 43 ! 7 !
• They will think of questions to ask the
2, and so on, to identify how to make the
main characters and work in role to
largest even product or the product
explore more complex emotional
closest to 500.
issues.
• They record and adjust their products in
• They will also demonstrate their
the light of their findings. They then
growing understanding of characters
explore the effect of using other digits,
to write a short conversation at a key
including a zero, some cases where two
point in the film using the conventions
digits are the same and examples that
of speech punctuation.
include decimals.
• The children will write their own
version of The Piano, organising writing
• This term the children will begin to look
into paragraphs.
at and use non verbal reasoning papers.

We will continue with our class story.

I am a cloud, I can blow anywhere by Jonathan &