Welcome back to school! We hope that everyone has had a lovely summer break and we can't wait for the year ahead with our new Year 5 class. This year, Year 5 will be taught by Mrs Craven (Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday) and Mr Scott-Scarth (Thursday and Friday). The class will be supported during the week by Miss Price and Mrs Jones.

You can keep up to date with our school and class updates on Facebook, Weduc and on here. We are always here to help and if you wish to speak to us then please either call the office and we will give you a call back, send a message via Weduc or you can speak to us in person at hometime. 

Important Information:

Our School Golden Rules

• Be respectful
• Be ready
• Be safe

Snack

The cost of snack remains the same at £1 per week (20p per day). This gets your child toast everyday of the week at break time. If your child prefers to bring snack from home this has to be a healthy option (please refer to our Healthy Eating Policy). Fresh fruit is available to the children everyday at break time, free of charge. 

PE

PE will be on Wednesday afternoons and the children will come to school wearing thier PE kits and trainers. 

Your child's PE kit should include: -

• Blue T-shirt (Can be purchased form the school office)
• Black shorts or plain black/dark jogging bottoms in winter
• Trainers (for outside PE)
• Black pumps (for indoor PE)
• School jumper or Cardigan in the colder month

Homework

Homework will go home on a Wednesday and be returned to us completed on the following Wednesday. Please encourage and help your child to complete and retrun their homework.  They will recieve dojo points for completing and returning it on time. 

Reading

Children are expected to read at home a minimum of 4 times a week so that they can achieve their reading certificates. This needs to be logged in their Reading Record which then needs to be brought into school to be checked. Children will recieve dojo points for bringing thier reading record in each day and for for each time that they read.

Dojo Points

Children will continue to receive dojos this year. They will receive positive and negative dojos. Your child will receive positive dojo's for good behaviour, wearing correct uniform and being on time amongst many other things! However, your child may also receive negative dojo's for poor behaviour, being late and incorrect uniform. Each day their dojo's will be banked. Once they reach 100 in their bank they will be able to choose a prize!

If your child has 90% or over positive dojo's, they will have earnt themselves enrichment tim. However,  if your child has 90% or negative dojo's they will go to reflection time with Mrs Seager and Mrs Scott-Scarth. Reflection time is a quiet , thinking time where they can discuss with an adult where they recived neagtive dojo's that week and how they are going to improve the following week.

School Uniform

Just a reminder to our parents, children should wear their full school uniform daily unless stated otherwise. School Uniform should include: -

• School Jumper or Cardigan
• White Shirt/polo shirt
• Tie (colour based on which house your child is in)
• Black/Grey Trousers or skirt
• School Dress
• ALL Black Shoes

Our Curriculum:

MATHS: As a school this year, we are all continuing to follow 'Power Maths' which is a mastery approach to teaching maths.  Our Maths topics this term will be place value, addition and subtraction, multiplication and division and fractions. 

ENGLISH-  This term, we will begin by studying ' Queen of the Falls' by Chris Van Allsburg which is a true story about Annie Taylor - the first person to cross the Niagara Falls in a barrell. In the second half term we will study ' Lost Happy Endings' by Carol Ann Duffy. This is a fantastic and magical tale. Using both of these texts the children will cover grammar elements aswell as producing a wide range of writing for different purposes. 

SCIENCE: Our first science topic this term is Forces in which the children will learn about gravity, friction, air and water resistance aswell as carry out engaging and inspiring investigations. 

GEOGRAPHY: This term our Geography topic is 'Amazing North America' and the children will be learning all about the different countries in North America, locating them on a map, identifying human and physical features and comparing them to their local area. 

COMPUTING

In Autumn 1 the children will be learning about Computer Systems and Networks and then in Autumn 2 they explore Creating Video. 

JIGSAW

In Jigsaw, our first topic is Being Me in my World followed by Celebrating Differences

 Remember to check out our weekly class news on Facebook published every Monday, to find out what we will be learning about each week in school!

Example of our Weekly Newsletter