Year 5: Kamkwamba
Class teacher: Mrs Thomas / Mrs Browning
Class teaching assistant: Miss Hughes
Kamkwamba class
Welcome to Kamkwamba class! Here you will find our newsletters, photos of our topic work and any important information about our class. Our class is taught by Mrs Thomas Monday to Thursday and Mrs Browning on a 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.
Our topic this term
This term's topic is Need for Speed, where we will be covering lots of areas of the curriculum. In DT we will be designing, building and evaluating. We will be looking at science (friction and forces), as well as lots of team-building exercises. We will study healthy foods and fitness, all in aid of supporting our final product. Within computing, we will look at programming skills and use spreadsheets to budget for resources and even use a green screen to advertise our work.
Maths
In maths this term, we will be turning our attention to properties of shape, statistics and revising our work on the four operations from earlier in the year. As well as this, we will continue to consolidate written methods, solving problems in different contexts: deciding which operation and methods to use and why and also using estimation (rounding) and the inverse to check our calculations.
English
In writing, we will be developing our description skills, focusing on punctuation and grammar rules and looking at our class text 'Varmints'.
Important Class Information:
PE Days: Tuesdays and Thursdays. 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.
Times Tables: It is important all pupils are learning (and continue to practise) 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:
Friday 5th June - Wear green for Mental Health Day.
Saturday 6th June - FOBS duck racing event on the Village green.
Monday 8th June- Girls year 5/6 cricket tournament
Tuesday 23rd June - Parent Open Morning.
Thursday 25th June- Art workshop
Wednesday 1st July - Sports Day
Thursday 2nd July- Multi skills event
Monday 6th July (1:45PM) - Go Kart Grand Prix
Friday 10th July - Reports out
Monday 13th July - Class Swap Morning
Friday 17th July– Break up at 2pm