Welcome

A warm welcome from the adults working across Beech and Elm this year. They are Mrs Cody, Mr Chapman, Mrs Reynolds, Mrs Ansell and Mr Beavis. Please don't hesitate to contact us if you would like to discuss anything regarding your child.

Reminders

Please ensure all uniform is named including PE kits.

Your child needs to bring in a drink bottle everyday to ensure they stay hydrated.

PE 

Outdoor PE is on a Wednesday.

Indoor PE is on a Thursday.

Your child needs to come into school on both days in full PE kit. Please ensure this is inline with our uniform policy which can be found under 'Parent Information'.

Homework

For Autumn 1, children will be required to complete a task from the "Moving On Up" document. 

These will be as follows:

10.09.21   Page 13 Writing a Story Challenge

17.09.21   Page 12 Create - short burst writing activities

24.09.21    Page 16 Investigate spelling - homophones

01.10.21    Pages 7 and 8 Navigate - reading comprehension about Sharks

08.10.21    Page 9 Song Lyrics Comprehension

15.10.21   Page 15 Origami Story writing

22.10.21   Page 19 Create a spelling word search

Please send work into school by Wednesday of the following week.

If your child wishes to complete additional activities, please send these into school as we would like to acknowledge their efforts.

Many thanks, 

Year 5

Weekly update

This week, we have solved problems involving fractions - including addition, subtraction equivalent fractions and fractions of a amounts.  In English, we have been looking at widening the variety of sentence openers we use.  The work done by Jane Goodall has guided our science this week.  As a result, we created posters to raise awareness about the plight of endangered chimpanzees in Africa.