Welcome to Olive Class
During the Autumn term, our learning question will be, 'How did people from the past shape the world we know today?'. The children will have a History focus this term in which they will learn about Roman life. The children have the opportunity to discuss real issues such as slavery, law and punishment and justice.
Some of the questions the children want to find out about are:
How powerful were the Roman military?
How did the Romans get their name?
Did the Romans have beds to sleep in or did they sleep outside?
How long did the Romans rule for?
The children will also be going to Chester on Monday 10th September to have a first hand experience of what life was really like in Roman times as well as be a Roman solider for the day.
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Click on the image above to find out more about the Romans.
Useful Information
PE sessions are on a Tuesday and Wednesday each week. Please ensure that full PE kits are in school every week.
Spelling lists go home every other Monday, ready for a spelling test every other Friday.
Mad about Maths challenges are updated biweekly.
Homework will go out on a Monday and it is to be returned on the following Friday, giving the children 2 weeks to complete it.
Reading logs are checked each day. Please make sure that these are in school every day. Remember in Year 5, children are expected to read every day!
Please support your child by ensuring they complete all their homework tasks and hand them in on Fridays.
Trip to Chester!
The children in Olive Class will leave school at 9am on Monday 10th September and take a coach to Chester. Please ensure your child has a coat and sensible shoes for the day as we will be outside for a big part of the day. Photos to come....
English
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This half term we will be focusing on Narratrives. We will use the book, 'There is a boy in the girl's bathroom', to enhance learning, along with teaching the skills that are needed for the children to independently write their own narratives
The children will continue to learn a range of grammar skills. This half term they will focus on relative clauses, conjunctions, inverted commas and expanded noun phrases.
Maths
We will be working on plave value and addition.
The children will be learning about how to read, write and partition numbers to one million. As well as learning how to add whole numbers and decimal numbers.
They will then be applying these skills to more complex problems.
Click on the link below to find thousands of problems for your children to solve at home.
Also we will improve our speed and fluency with mental maths. Remember to choose a challenge from your maths passport to practise every week to help improve your mental maths skills.
Here are some links for games to help improve your mental maths skills.
Push the Button - times tables, doubles and halves and number bonds.
Loop Cards - addition and subtraction facts, doubles and halves and times tables.
Woodlands Junior - lots of different maths games to improve your mental maths.
Topic
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During the Autumn term, our learning question will be, 'How did people from the past shape the world we know today?'. The children will have a History focus this term in which they will learn about Roman life. The children have the opportunity to discuss real issues such as slavery, law and punishment and justice.
Some of the questions the children want to find out about are:
How powerful were the Roman military?
How did the Romans get their name?
Did the Romans have beds to sleep in or did they sleep outside?
How long did the Romans rule for?
In Science, the children will be learning about Earth and Space
PE- Rugby
Computing -'Coding'
RE-Hinduism
Spanish-Animals