Welcome to Olive Class
Welcome back Olive Class! I hope you have all had a wonderful Easter holiday and that you are ready for some really exciting learning this term.
During the Summer term, our project question is, 'What did the Greeks do for us?'. During this project the children will learn about the Greeks through History, art, music and dance. In particular, we will focus on Greek architecture. The children will also be designing and making Greek musical instrumnets as part of their home learning
Parthenon
We have created our own animations based on the Greek Myth ‘Thesus and the Minotaur’.
English
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This half term we will be focusing on non-fiction writing. We will use Wallace and Gromit's inventions to enhance learning, along with teaching the skills that are needed for the children to independently write their own explanation texts.
The children will continue to learn a range of grammar skills which they can apply to their independent writing. Use this website at home to help your child with their grammar skills.
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/english-games/7-11-years/spelling-and-grammar
The children will have a big push on spellings this term. Use this website to help your child at home.
Maths
We will be working on volume in summer one. The children will learn to understand the volume of solids, find the volume, convert units of volume and finally we will end on solving problems involving volume.
Click on the link below to find thousands of problems for your children to solve at home.
http://nrich.maths.org/frontpage
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.
Project
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During the Summer term the learning will be as follows:
Project-The Greeks
Please use the following links to explore more:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/z87tn39
http://www.primaryhomeworkhelp.co.uk/greece/today.html
Science-Living Things and Their Habitats
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zgssgk7
Computing-3D Animation
PE-Ball games and Dance
RE- Judaism
PHSE-Heathy Eating
Useful Information
PE sessions are on a Wednesday and Friday each week. Please ensure that full PE kits are in school every week.
Times tables to be done each school night ( 5 nights per week) and record books signed.
Homework will go out on a Friday and it is to be returned on the following Friday, giving the children 1 week to complete it. This homework should take no longer than 30 minutes.
Reading records to be signed each time you read or log onto Reading Plus. Please make sure that these are in school every Friday. Remember in Year 5, children are expected to read every day.
Please support your child by ensuring they complete all their homework tasks.
Additional Information
As well as their set homework, also help your child by encouraging them to use Reading Plus at home, TT Rockstars, Purple Mash and any of the other websites listed below to help enchance their learning.
Reading Plus
https://student.readingplus.com/seereader/api/sec/fail
TT Rockstars
Purple Mash
https://www.purplemash.com/sch/dallam
Spelling Training
https://www.spellingtraining.com/
Times Table Games
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button