Year 5 Learning Letter
Friday 30 th January 2015
DATES FOR THE DIARY
Fri 30th Jan - KS2 Disco (5.45pm-6.45pm)
MATHS LEARNING NEXT WEEK:
Thurs 12th Feb - Home Learning Showcase
operations of number, with a focus on mental
YEAR 5 NEWS AND MESSAGES
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Don’t forget that tonight’s disco for KS2 will
be from 5.45pm-6.45pm in the school hall.
Your child will need collecting at the end of
the event.
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communicate through Skype and blogging. We
will then arrange a date before Easter to take
part in an outdoor learning event together.
Friday 28th March is the deadline for final
Arethusa payments. Please contact the school
office if you have any further questions.
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strategies and formal written methods.
Our key vocabulary will include: addition,
subtraction multiplication, division, inverse operation,
problem solving, reasoning and mathematical proof,
E.g. I know that 358 + 247 = 605 because...
605 - 247 = 358
The children have finally been paired with a
buddy from Haseltine. The initial plan is to
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Next week, we will be returning to the four
If you haven’t already done so, please take a
moment to take part in our online survey
about children bringing in sweets for
If you browse around the school’s website, you will
be able to find our calculation policy, and a copy of
the Year 5 curriculum. In addition to this, our Maths
Zone offers links to great maths websites, videos of
key strategies being taught; practice times table
activities and much more...
Mathletics should be completed by Fri 6th Feb.
NEXT WEEK’S TOPIC - ‘Medical Marvels’
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the effects of water and nutrients on our
birthdays. You can find the link on our
body. We will also study in greater detail the
website. Thank you.
human life cycle.
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submitted by others.
The children will conclude their study of explanation
www.kidblog.org/mrmcarthur5m/
text features, and will then produce a ‘Hot Write’
SPELLING FOCUS NEXT WEEK:
We will be continuing our focus on silent letters
within words, e.g. doubt, island, lamb, thistle etc.
We have also been exploring the silent ‘p’ at the
beginning of some words, e.g. psychopath,
psychology and pneumonia.
In ICT, the children are continuing to post
their own blogs and comment on those
LITERACY LEARNING NEXT WEEK:
explaining the life cycle of a particular creature.
In Topic, the children will be learning about
www.kidblog.org/mraldridge5a/
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The PSHE share box will be with:
5A - RAUL
Have a great weekend,
The Year 5 Team.
5M - JOSH