Lostock Gralam C of E Primary School
Skylarks
Date: 29th Sep 2022 @ 12:46pm
Hello everyone and welcome to Skylarks weekly blog! ?
Another fantastic week of learning in Skylarks Class. The children thoroughly enjoyed our forest school session this morning which you can see photos of on twitter.
Next week (W.B. 03.10.22)
In our English lessons next week, we will read more of our book ‘Queen of the Falls’. We will be focusing on writing recounts in the form of a newspaper and a first-person account. We will discuss the tone and vocabulary used in each and will also continue to focus on using adverbials to express time, place and feeling.
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 round numbers to the nearest 100,000; 10,000; 1,000; 100 and 10. We will also continue to consolidate our knowledge of the four operations through daily 4-a-day activities.
In science we will be working collaboratively to plan an investigation to answer the following question: Which container will help to keep my lunch the coldest?
In RE we will continue to think about the Sermon on the Mount and the key messages we can learn from these verses.
During our topic day we will continue to look at our Year 5 theme of ‘Identity’. We will be learning how to read and write 6 figure grid references to locate human and physical features in our school ground and then 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 9 of their maths book to be returned by Friday 7th October. 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 7th October will be the first 10 words from the Year 5/6 statutory word list:
accommodate, accompany, according, achieve, aggressive, amateur, ancient, apparent, appreciate, attached
These words are more difficult than previous spellings which follow a specific spelling rule. If your child is struggling to learn all of the words, please encourage them to choose 5 or 6 to focus on.
Please remember that if you have any questions or queries, do not hesitate to get in contact ?
Miss Beattie x