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.
It's going to be a busy term once again with a trip to The International Space Centre to look forward to later in the term. We will launch into our second main topic of the year: Watch This Space, with an Amaze Day in the first week. Primarily a science-based topic, involving scientific invesigations as well as looking at history and how primary sources have evoloved and changed over time. We will also be looking at deforestation in Geography and debugging with computers.
Maths
In maths this term, our main focus is addition and subtraction, where we will be solving -step problems in contexts, deciding which operation and methods to use and why. Using estimation (rounding) and the inverse to check our calculations. Also we will be using column subtraction for two numbers with more than 4, 5 and 6-digits when (exchanging) red alerts are required in multiple columns and use column addition and subtraction to add and subtract decimal numbers with 1, 2, or 3 decimal places.
English
In guided reading, our learning is based around the book "The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind" by William Kamkwamba.
In writing, we will be learning and practising 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 independent writing and setting descriptions.
Competitions: There is information below about the art competition being run by the Rotary Club which is a great opportunity for your child to challenge their creativity. All entries to be handed to Mrs Gainsford before or on the morning of the closing date please.
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. 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:
Back to school – 3rd November
Rotary Art competition- 11th November
Space centre trip (Leicester)- 27th November
Christmas jumper day- 1st December
Christmas fayre- 4th December
Year 5 Homework Due - 15th December
KS2 performance- 17th December
Break up for Christmas – 19th December