Lostock Gralam C of E Primary School
Skylarks WB 22.5.23
Date: 18th May 2023 @ 2:45pm
Hello everyone and welcome back to Skylarks weekly blog! ?
Next week (W.B. 22.05.23)
In our English lessons next week, we will use our plans the model text to write our own autobiographies about Malala Yousafzai. We will focus on using the feature and mastery keys we have been focusing on this half term, including using a wide range of conjunctions, brackets to indicate parenthesis and adverbials of time and place.
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. We will also draw inferences about people’s thoughts and feelings based on evidence from the text.
In maths we will be focussing on find the area of shapes, including rectangles and compound shapes. 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 using our learning on Malala Yousafzai in English to explore further her journey out of Pakistan: where she travelled from/to, the reasons why and what it was like for her being a refugee.
In Science we will begin our new topic on Earth and Space by thinking about what we already know and what we would like to find out.
In Art we will be applying all of the sketching skills we have acquired this half term in a final piece of artwork based on our ‘Home’ topic.
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 40 of their maths homework book to be returned by Friday 26th May 2023. This homework is looking at rounding 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 26th May will be the next 10 words from the Y5/6 statutory word list:
Prejudice, privilege, profession, programme, pronunciation, queue, recognise, recommend, relevant, rhyme
Please remember that if you have any questions or queries, do not hesitate to get in contact ?
Miss Beattie x