Dates for your Diaries

Heroes Breakfast for male role models: 8.00 12th January

Dress up as Heroes Day (fundraising): 12th January
Ice Skating Trip: 21st January
Writing Week: 24th January
KS2 Swimming Gala (By invite only): 4th February
Parents Evening: 16th February: 3.00 -7.00 (school will close at 2.45)
Drama Week: 14th February
Theatre Trip and last day of term: 18th February
Term 4 and Maths Week start on 28th February.

Attendance and Punctuality continues to be a big issue in our class. Year 5 had the lowest attendance and
punctuality percentage in the school. The school target is 100% in attendance and punctuality. 6 children
achieved this target so far. Congratulations to: Gbemi, Morgan, Abigail, Boris, Darin and Kieran!
Please encourage children to be in school on time. It can be embarrassing for them to come into the
classroom late and they can miss an important part of their education. All the children who achieve the
school target of 100% attendance and punctuality will be invited to a special end of Year Summer Ball

Requests:
Please send in scrap pieces of fabric for our patchwork quilts.
Can we also have empty packaging for our musical instruments?
Thank you.

Numeracy Literacy:
In numeracy, we continue to encourage all of the children In Literacy we will be developing the following
to learn all of their times tables. We will continue to skills in persuasive writing:
develop skills in the following areas.
•
The children will read and evaluate letters, for
• Written methods: addition and subtraction
example from newspapers or magazines, intended to
of decimals
inform, protest, complain, persuade, considering (i)
how they are set out, and (ii) how language is used.
• Ordering, partitioning and rounding numbers
and decimals to 2 places
The children will select and evaluate a range of
texts, in print or other media, for persuasiveness,
• Solving one- and two-step word problems
clarity, quality of information; collect and
involving numbers, money or measures
investigate use of persuasive devices.

• Mental methods and recall: sums,

We will encourage the children to draft and write
differences, doubles and halves of decimals
individual, group or class letters for real purposes,
• Factors, common multiples
edit and present to finished state.

• Patterns, relationships and properties of

They will construct an argument in note form or full
numbers and shapes
text to persuade others of a point of view and
present the case to the class or a group and
• Representing a problem using calculations or evaluate its effectiveness.
diagrams
The children will understand how writing can be
• Visualising 3-D and 2-D shapes adapted for different audiences and purposes.
• Properties of 3-D and 2-D shapes
• Nets of solids We are continuing with our class story:
I am a cloud, I can blow anywhere by Jonathan &
• Using a calculator Shirley Tulloch.