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Year 5
Welcome to Year 5 Michael Morpurgo
Teacher: Mr Bawn Teaching Assistant: Mrs Radecka
Reading Books:
All children have a reading book and a reading record diary that they are encouraged to take home and share with parents and carers. When they have read their book, children are able to change them when they arrive at school each morning. Please sign your name and feel free to write any comment each time you listen to your child read, and also when they have completed their book. Please try and listen to your child read daily at home.
Home Learning:
Home learning is handed out every Wednesday and needs to be handed back in to the class teacher on the following Monday. As part of home learning, year 5 are expected to complete activities and challenges via the Mathletics and Reading Eggs websites. One Reading Egg challenge must be completed per month and Mathletics challenges weekly.
PE
Year 5 have P.E. on Monday morning and Thursday afternoon. Please ensure children have their full kits in school on these days. No jewellery is permitted. After Christmas, the children will have swimming on Friday mornings. Please ensure your child has the correct kit for this. Click on the link below to find out more information about our uniform.
Music with Kingston Music Service (KMS):
This year, the children will be learning how to play the ukuleles, delivered weekly by KMS. This will be starting on Wednesday 19th September at 9:00am. The children have been given forms regarding the ukuleles and taking them home to practice. Please could you ensure your child's forms are completed and returned to school ASAP.
Medium Term Plans
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Look at what we have been learning about.
Egg Drop Activity! Year 5 spent the morning using teamwork skills to create and build a design to go around an egg (with limited resources) that when dropped from 10ft, wouldn't crack the egg!
World War II Artefact Day!
Environmental Art inspired by Andy Goldsworthy
Year 5 had a go at being 'Silent Teachers' whilst learning how to subtract fractions from whole numbers.
Year 5 learning how to play the C and D chord with Mr Reeman
Properties of materials experiment! Year 5 tried mixing a range of different materials, including bicarbonate of soda and peanut butter, with water to see if it would dissolve!
A handful of the fantastic projects created by Year 5 for their new topic, ‘Storms and Shipwrecks!’
During World Book Day, Year 5 enjoyed sharing, and reading, some of their favourite books to Reception.
Year 5 had a fantastic time visiting Wagamama! They learnt how to make smoothies, measure their own ingredients and make/eat their own noodles!
The Rt. Hon. Judge Bawn visited the class this week to listen to a class debate on who was responsible for the sinking of the Titanic. A fantastic debate with reasoning took place.
The Easter Experience at Cornerstone's Hub. The children learnt - through drama and activities - the story of Easter. A fantastic time was had by all, with impeccable behaviour and questioning skills shown by Y5.
Year 5 visit the Oval to watch Surrey CC v. Hampshire CC!
Year 5 projects, and clothing, for our new topic of 'Benin'
The islands created by Year 5 for our class art project linked to the book, Kensuke's Kingdom.
Year 5 welcomed Al Morin, author of the 'Brandon Abroad' series into the class. They had a fantastic time listening to Al, hearing extracts from his latest books and some fun activities based around root words.
Year 5 had a 'classical' time watching the 'K30 Orchestra' at Kingston United Reformed Church. A fantastic range of classical pieces from composers including Chopin, Dvorak and Mendelssohn
Year 4 and 5 jamming with the National Youth Jazz Orchestra (NYJO) at the Rose Theatre
