This leaflet contains curriculum information for the coming term. Please support your child where you can. If you would like more information please get in touch.

Many thanks,

Miss Evans, Miss Heeks,

Mrs Downward & Mr Bond

Key Dates for the diary

Monday 20th– Friday 24th February—Half term holiday

27h February—Training day—school closed to children

Tuesday 21^st March – Year 5  Inspire Afternoon

Homework will be given out on a Friday, on Mirodo to be completed throughout the following week.
The pupils will receive every week:

A piece of English homework
A piece of Maths homework

It is also important that you hear your child read on a regular basis, ideally this would be for a minimum of 10 minutes a day. Please record when you have heard your child read in their reading record book.
Children will also have weekly spelling tests. They wil have between 8 and 10 new words to learn each week and tests take place on Fridays.. The spellings will be posted on the class DOJO pages

Topic

The Ancient Egyptians

Civilisation, Communication and Inventions

Reading

Our key texts are going to be:

Who Let the Gods Out?

Writing

The writing genres we are going to study are:

Explanation texts
Persuasion
Balanced Argument

Maths

Our Maths topics are going to :

Multiplication and Division
Fractions, Decimals and Percentages
Perimeter and Area

LOTC

Learning Outside the Classroom

Orienteering Tasks in Maths, English
and Topic
Talk for Writing

Science

Changing Materials
Earth and Space

Cross-Curricular

Art — Clay work
Music — Flute/Brass lessons
RE — Sikhism and Christianity
PE – Gymnastics
History — Hieroglyphics, mummification, social hierarchy
Geography — River Nile
Computing — Scratch Music