Lostock Gralam C of E Primary School
Skylarks WB 8.11.21
Date: 4th Nov 2021 @ 7:55am
Hello everyone and welcome back to Skylarks weekly blog ?
I hope you all had a restful and enjoyable half term. Skylarks have come back with such enthusiasm and have had a fantastic few days of learning!
Reminders:
- Lion Salt Works Trip – Skylarks Class will visit the Lion Salt Works on Tuesday 9th November 2021. Please give your consent and pay using school gateway. Children should come to school in their full uniform (including a waterproof coat) and bring their packed lunch with them in a named plastic bag.
- 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. 8.11.21)
In our English lessons next week, we will continue to explore our new book ‘The Lost Happy Endings’ by Carol Ann Duffy and Jane Ray. We will be recapping our learning on expanded noun phrases and will use these to help us write a short 100-word story about the main character Jub, as well as a character description of the witch.
In our reading lessons next week, we will explore our new shared reading text ‘Hansel and Gretel’ by Neil Gaiman and Lorenzo Mattotti. We will be focussing on vocabulary and will evaluate the author’s choice of language, including the use of figurative language.
In maths we will be moving onto our new topic looking at graphs and tables. We will begin by learning how to interpret tables, before moving on to look at more complex two-way tables. We will also continue to consolidate our knowledge of the four operations through daily 4-a-day activities.
In RE we will continue our learning on our new topic on ‘incarnation’. We recap the different titles given to Jesus at Christmas time that we learnt about last week, before digging deeper into the title ‘Emmanuel’. We will discuss and research what this title means and present our findings in a pic-collage using our IT skills.
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 14 and 15 of their maths book to be returned by Friday 12th November. This homework is looking mental addition and subtraction, as well as using rounding to check answers.
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 12th November will focus on words containing the suffix -able:
understandable, breakable, suitable, enjoyable, noticeable, changeable, adorable, reliable, enviable, bearable
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