Welcome to Year 5!

Your teachers are:

Mrs Chappell:     carolinechappell@stratton.cornwall.sch.uk 

Miss Barriball:    hannahbarriball@stratton.cornwall.sch.uk

Year 5 Weekly Update

• Friday 20th March - Red Nose Day (Comic Relief)
• Monday 30th March - Easter cake bake (Staff and Y3 - Aspen and Hawthorn)
• Tuesday 31st March - KS2 project day
• 2nd April - last day
• 3rd April - 20th April - Easter holidays

It has been a great week in Year 5, with many children demonstrating wonderful adaptability in response to changes in teaching staff. Well done to everyone for their positive attitudes and resilience.

In their writing lessons, children completed typing up their balanced arguments exploring the pros and cons of artificial intelligence. We are looking forward to reading them.  Our new book, Robot Girl, as inspired some excellent pieces of writing, including effective use of subordination to develop ideas. The children also had to hunt down information (hidden for a while) in their long-term memory to recall how to punctuate dialogue accurately—an area where they performed well, despite the many rules to remember.

In maths, we focused on rounding decimals to whole numbers and to one decimal place. This is a concept that would benefit from some additional practice at home, and any support you can offer would be greatly appreciated. Later in the week, we began exploring percentages, and I have been very impressed with the children's engagement and understanding so far.

In history, we delved into some of the strange, fascinating, and rather gruesome 'cures' for the bubonic plague during the 17th century. I encourage you to ask your child about what they learned—they are sure to have some interesting (and perhaps surprising) details to share!

Athlete visit Tuesday 17th March - We have Ariyanna McGee, a British athlete, coming to visit our school to talk about her career and do a small workshop with as many classes as possible. Sponsorship forms were handed to the children to help raise money to support this event and raise money for school PE resources. These need to be returned with any donations by Tuesday 10th March. Additionally, you can donation some money towards it here:

https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/stratton-primary-schoolfundraiser

Have a wonderful weekend.
 

Mrs Chappell and Mrs Drew aka Miss Barriball

HOMEWORK

Reading:
Please can your child read 5 times a week, preferably out loud. They have a reading log which will be checked every Friday morning. Please ensure their reading book comes in every day.

Maths:
We are asking everyone to complete 10 Garage sessions per week and 5 Soundchecks (15 minutes). Pupils can then play games of their choice once this is complete.

Spelling:
Teachers will check the Spelling Shed online logs every Friday. This assignment involves them playing 10 spelling games (there are 10 questions per game) linked to their learning in school. If you encounter any difficulties, please let us know as soon as possible.

Important messages/information:

SPARE SHOES:
Please put spare trainers in your child’s bag. In the event of rain, wet play and PE are result in wet, damp shoes. Thank you.