Lostock Gralam C of E Primary School
Skylarks WB 1.5.23
Date: 28th Apr 2023 @ 2:04pm
Hello everyone and welcome back to Skylarks weekly blog! ?
Next week (W.B. 01.05.23)
Reminder: Monday 1st May is a bank holiday. School is closed on this day and will reopen on Tuesday 2nd May.
On Friday 5th May, we are celebrating the King's coronation. We are all going to be coming into school wearing red, white and blue or just red or just white or just blue is fine, we don't have to have all three. Mrs Macey is making a gorgeous picnic that we will all eat together on the field, or your child is welcome to bring their own packed lunch from home. The head students have held a competition to design the biscuit and they will choose the winners with Mrs Macey. We will be having a service in church led by Vicar Andrew and throughout the day the children will take part in activities to both celebrate the coronation help the children really understand the events of the weekend.
In our English lessons next week, we will continue to read more of ‘Malala’s Magic Pencil’ by Malala Yousafzai. We will be focussing on the job of fronted adverbials within the text and applying these ourselves in a diary entry in role as Malala.
In shared reading we will continue to read our text ‘Exploring Space’. We will be focussing on ‘Drawing Inferences’ and language choice. We will look at how the author’s language choice contributes to the meaning.
In maths we will be focussing on ordering and comparing decimals, as well as rounding to the nearest whole number. We will also consolidate our understanding of the four operations through daily 4-a-day activities.
In History and Geography, we will continue with our whole school topic on ‘Home’. We will be looking at the statistics of where refuges travel from and to, before locating these countries on a world map.
In Art we will continue to explore sketching techniques further and look at how to draw bodies in proportion.
Our PE day for the Spring Term will be a Wednesday so your child should come to school in their PE kit on this day. Please remember PE kits should either be school kits or plain black/blue.
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, please do let Mr Beswick or myself know so that we can offer them support in school.
The children should complete page 38 of their maths homework book to be returned by Friday 5th May 2023. This homework is looking at converting between fractions and decimals.
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 5th May will be the next 10 words in the Year 5/6 statutory word list:
muscle, necessary, neighbour, nuisance, occupy, occur, opportunity, parliament, persuade, physical
Please remember that if you have any questions or queries, do not hesitate to get in contact ?
Miss Beattie x