Lostock Gralam C of E Primary School
Skylarks WB 15.11.21
Date: 11th Nov 2021 @ 7:39am
Hello everyone and welcome back to Skylarks weekly blog ?
We have had another super week of learning in Skylarks Class. The children represented our school so wonderfully during our visit to the Lion Salt Works and learnt an abundance of new knowledge. I’m sure you have heard all about our trip from your child, but you can also see lots of photos from the day on our school Twitter @LostockGralamPr
Reminders:
- Christmas Play Costumes - Our class will perform a party scene dance so your child will need to wear party clothes (e.g. a colourful t-shirt and jeans/legging, a dress, sparkly shoes, etc.). Please do not go out and buy anything new for our performance, any type of party wear your child already owns will be perfect. We would like these costumes to be in school for Monday 29th November 2021.
Next Week (W.B. 15.11.21)
In our English lessons next week, we will continue to explore our book ‘The Lost Happy Endings’ by Carol Ann Duffy and Jane Ray. We will be focusing most of our learning around building characterisation. We will look at how difference language devices (e.g. similes, alliteration, metaphors) and speech can help to develop our characters within stories. We will also look at using figurative language devices in a winter poem.
In our reading lessons next week, we will continue to explore our shared reading text ‘Hansel and Gretel’ by Neil Gaiman and Lorenzo Mattotti. We will be focussing on identifying the themes and conventions in the story. We will be discussing the reoccurring themes and the ‘must-have’ characteristics of this type of story.
In maths we will be looking at line graphs. We will begin by learning how to read line graphs, before moving on to drawing our own. We will also continue to consolidate our knowledge of the four operations through daily 4-a-day activities.
In science, the children will investigate which processes are most effective for separating materials. We will use filtering, sieving, evaporating and magnetic attraction to separate different mixtures and solutions. This will link nicely to our work carried out at the Lion Salt Works on Tuesday.
During our topic day, we will use our learning from the Lion Salt Works to help us produce an information leaflet about the process of pumping brine and extracting salt, the importance of the salt works and the effect the salt industry had on Northwich.
Our PE days for the Autumn will continue to be Thursday (Swimming) and Friday (Athletics) so your child should come to school in their PE kit on these days. Please remember PE kits should either be school kits or plain black/blue. On Thursday your child will also need to have their swimming costume and towel in a plastic bag.
Homework
In year 5 the children will be set a weekly maths homework that they should complete and mark at home using the answers in the back of the homework book.
If your child is finding the homework tricky, Mrs Hulse and I will ensure that supervision is provided on a Wednesday lunchtime for your child to ask any questions or receive some support to complete their homework.
The children should complete pages 48 and 49 of their maths book to be returned by Friday 19th November. This homework is looking finding the perimeter of shapes.
Please also encourage your child to read for 20 minutes each evening and practice their spellings/times tables. The following websites are both great for times tables practice:
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button
Our spellings for the quiz on Friday 19th November will continue to focus on words containing the suffix -able:
adaptable, predictable, knowledgeable, beatable, comfortable, reasonable, available, fashionable, miserable, believable
Please encourage your child to learn the root word before adding the -able suffix.
Please remember that if you have any questions or queries, do not hesitate to get in contact ?
Miss Beattie x