Lostock Gralam C of E Primary School
Skylarks WB 26.9.22
Date: 22nd Sep 2022 @ 8:20am
Hello everyone and welcome to Skylarks weekly blog! ?
What a great week we have had in Skylarks Class. I am particularly impressed with the effort the children have put into their writing this week!
Next week (W.B. 26.09.22)
Thursday 29th September 2022 – Y5 Forest Schools – The children in Skylarks Class will be taking part in forest schools on this day (morning). Please send your child to school in old, comfortable clothes; trainers and a waterproof coat. The children may also bring wellies in a plastic bag if they have them (weather permitting). Children should also bring their uniform and school shoes which they will get changed into should they get wet or muddy during our forest school morning.
In our English lessons next week, we will read more of our book ‘Queen of the Falls’. We will be focusing on writing in role as we write letter to Annie Edson Taylor as one of her friends. We will also analyse the different viewpoints that people held of Annie, including her friend and her manager.
In our shared reading lessons, we will be reading about the inspirational women in our text ‘Goodnight Stories for Rebel Girls’. We will continue to focus on drawing inferences and justifying our answers with evidence.
In maths we will continue to focus on the place value of numbers to 1,000,000. We will be learning how to partition, order and compare these numbers. We will also continue to consolidate our knowledge of the four operations through daily 4-a-day activities.
In science we will be learning about thermal insulators and conductors. We will be learning how to analyse a set of results to write a conclusion.
In RE we will be thinking about the Sermon on the Mount. We will read ‘Salt and Light’ from Matthew 5:13-15 and explain how these verses help people to follow Jesus today.
During our topic day we will continue to look at our Year 5 theme of ‘Identity’. We will be learning about the counties of the UK, using maps and atlases to locate both Cheshire and Northwich.
Our PE days for the first Autumn term will be Thursday (Cricket) and Friday with Mr Ault 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.
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 8 of their maths book to be returned by Friday 30th September. This homework is looking at place value.
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 30th September will continue to focus on words with the silent letter b:
climb, subtle, bomb, lamb, doubted, plumber, crumbling, numbing
Please remember that if you have any questions or queries, do not hesitate to get in contact ?
Miss Beattie x