Welcome to Year 5 Willow
Mr Whitehead
Teaching Assistant - Mrs Payne (AM)
Welcome
We hope you and your families have enjoyed a lovely February half term break. Lent is a very special time at school as we prepare for Easter. The children will be working towards their Easter Liturgy performance during Holy Week and focussing on a Stations of the Cross display to be displayed for the whole school to see and help their understanding of a stage of Jesus's journey to his crucifixion.
Please don't forget that Twitter is updated regularly, so you'll see lots of learning and experiences taking place on there. Remember, Mr Whitehead can be contacted on info@stjohnsrc.net.
Key Information
PE - change for this half term, PE has moved from Monday to Wednesday.
Wednesdays and Thursdays.
This year, children are to come into school in full school uniform and get changed into their PE kits on their PE days. Please bring full PE kits into school on these days.
Reading Books
We encourage children to read for at least 30 minutes every day. We would appreciate your support in helping them to find some time every day to enjoy a book.
Children will be given a book band reading book and a 'reading for pleasure' book to take home. There will be an opportunity to change these books every Friday.
Homework
Please login into Atom Prime each week: https://atomlearning.com/prime
English and maths will be added every Thursday.
The spellings for this year are below. Children will have spelling lessons in class and activities and quizzes throughout the week. Weekly spellings will be written in purple spelling books and these are to be brought into school each day. We would appreciate your support in reminding children to practice these words at home.
Curriculum for Spring 2
English
Floodlands by Marcus Sedgwick - an introduction to dystopian fiction
Maths
Decimals and Percentages
Perimeter and Area
Statistics
RE
Transformation - a celebration of the spirit's transforming powers.
Science
Living things and their habitats
Geography
North America
Computing
Databases
PE
Gymnastics
Tag Rugby
PHSE:
Healthy Lifestyles and Keeping Safe
Spanish
Family
D&T
Mechanisms - slingshot cars
Art
Perspective - Lowry
Physical Education
It's advisable to bring your PE kit into school and leave it on your peg. However, you will be changing into PE kit on the following days (and not coming into school with it on):