Welcome to year 5!

Your teachers are: Mrs Chappell & Miss Metherell

carolinechappell@stratton.cornwall.sch.uk            grace.metherell@stratton.cornwall.sch.uk

Hello and welcome to Year Five!

Playground Snacks

We encourage children to bring a snack for morning playtime to eat in the playground. The children are allowed to bring fruit or vegetables but please give consideration to a snack that is safe and easy to eat while on the move! Every day, under a government scheme, all children in the YR, Y1 and Y2 are provided with a piece of free fruit/vegetable in class.

Year 5 Weekly Update – Week 3 Summer term 16.5.25

Dates

• Next week – Bikeability.  Please let us know if you don’t know when your child is doing this
• 19^th May – Trip to the battle grounds of Stamford Hill
• 20^th May – KS2 sports day
• 26^th- 30^th May – Half term
• 19^th/20^th June – Surf and SUP day – look out for the letter
• 10^th and 11^th July – transition days
• 14^th July – 2 minute beach clean day

Year 5 Weekly Update

Year 5 has had an incredibly busy and unusual week!

On Tuesday, we went on a trip to Budehaven to see ‘Charlie and the Chocolate Factory’, which was absolutely incredible. Then, on Wednesday (as part of Bude Literary Festival), we were fortunate to have a visit from children’s author Patrice Lawrence—do check her out if you haven't already https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrice_Lawrence. The children asked some fantastic questions, and Patrice showed us a really interesting way of generating ideas. Everyone was very impressed to hear that she’s met Jacqueline Wilson and even the King!

This morning, we visited the church, and the children’s behaviour was wonderful throughout. We’re now looking forward to next week’s trip to the battlegrounds of Stamford Hill, KS2 Sports Day, and Bikeability for those who have signed up.

In class, we’ve started a new book about Anne Frank, and I think we’re all feeling relieved that we didn’t experience life as Jewish people during the Second World War. The children are all really curious though and so we said we’d share the link for the Anne Frank museum so here it is https://www.annefrank.org/en/. There is a great interactive part where you can explore her hiding place.  Through her writing, we’ve learnt how to use parenthesis for informal writing, as well as working with coordinates and symmetry in maths. Additionally, we’ve covered a lot of history this week, focusing on the Civil War and using map work to locate Stamford Hill and other local landmarks.

We’re all looking forward to the final week before a lovely, sunny half-term break!  Hope to see you all at the KS2 sports day.  We have got the children all sorted into heats so they know what to expect.  They should all know their team colours too – please let us know if you’re not sure.

As the weather is warming up, don’t forget sun hats and sun screen.

Have a lovely weekend!

Mrs Chappell and Miss Metherell

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.

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 15 garage sessions per week (15 minutes). Pupils can then play games of their choice once this is complete.

Spellings homework:
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. Please ensure that your child has logged in and had a go at accessing some of the games in their assignment. If you encounter any difficulties, please let us know as soon as possible.