Year 5: Satellite Class
Class teacher: Mrs Thomas / Mrs Browning
Class teaching assistant: Miss Hughes
Satellite class
Welcome to Satellite class! Here you will find our newsletters, photos of our topic work and any important information about our class. Satellite class is taught by Mrs Browning on a Monday and Mrs Thomas on Tuesday to Friday. Please pop back here (as well as having a look at our class photos tab) to see what we have been getting up to during the year.
During this term, we will be looking at preservation, hygiene and food preparation, through our new topic of 'Food Glorious Food'. As well as preparing a delicious meal, we will also be conducting a scientific experiment and looking at various techniques to cut food safely. Within PSHE, we will be further developing our understanding of relationships, changes in our body during puberty and how babies are made.
Maths
In maths this term, our main focus is shape, geometry and angles. Pupils will be required to apply and show the formal methods of all operations with increasing confidence. One day a week, the lesson focus will be on reasoning questions and mental arithmetic (10 in 10s).
English
In guided reading, our learning is based around the book "Song of a Dolphin Boy" by Elizabeth Laird. This will also inspire our writing, where we will be recapping and practising previous skills, such as: compound sentences, ISPACE sentence starters, subordinating conjunctions, relative clauses and paragraphing. We will explore these skills through a range of different texts, including character descriptions and instruction writing.
Important Class Information:
PE Days: Mondays and Tuesdays. Children need to come to school wearing their PE kit.
Reading Books: reading books will be changed on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays.
Homework: A homework grid for this term is attached below.
Reading: Please continue to listen to your child read daily, even for 10 minutes, and encourage them to complete the reading task in the reading journal. Books should be changed regularly. Comprehension texts will continue to be set for the children to complete regularly on Rockerbox at home.
Times Tables: It is important all pupils are learning (and continue to practice) the timetables up to the 12 times table. These should be known by the end of year 4 but it is essential that the children continue to practice and recall these facts.
Regular practise on Times Tables Rock Stars (TTRS) helps pupils to retain knowledge and helps them to utilise these facts in other mathematical learning. Please encourage your child to log in regularly - even if only for a few minutes each time.
Useful websites for times table practise:
Thank you for your continued support. Please don't hesitate to contact us if you have any queries.
Key Dates:
June 4th- Homework due
June 6th- Year 5/6 cricket
June 5th- Wellbeing day
June 11th- Whole school photo
June 18th- Team Superstars
June 18th- Science fayre (YR5)
July 7th - Homework due
July 8th- Sports day
July 9th- Whole school trip
July 16th- YR6 fete
July 18th- Last day