Autumn Term 1 2024

Curriculum

This term, our topic is 'Rainforest Rescue' linking to our geography topic 'A Study of Sherwood Forest and the Amazon', where we make comparisons of two forests in very different geographical locations. In English, we will be writing a diary, a persuasive letter, a non-chronological report and poetry. To enhance our fantastic topic and our writing, we will be reading our class text, 'The Explorer' by Katherine Rundell. For mathematics, we will begin with the fundamentals of number by exploring place value up to 1,000,000. We will then investigate and begin to understand what a negative number is, before applying our new knowledge to addition and subtraction.

PE 

We ask that parents ensure their child's PE kit is in school all week and sent home, as required, for washing
through the term and at the end of a half term. A reminder that as the weather gets colder, we
ask that parents send their child with a warm jumper and jogging bottoms for outdoor PE sessions.

Mr Akiens' class have PE on a Tuesday and a Friday.
Mr Preece's class have PE on a Tuesday and a Thursday.

Homework

All homework is set on a Monday and will be due the following Monday.

The children have homework set weekly, in either English or Maths - Year 5 complete most of their English and maths homework tasks online.

We also encourage the children to read three times weekly, as part of our Regular Readers competition.

Spellings are also given out weekly, on a Monday, and will be tested on the following Monday; the spelling rule linked to the weekly spellings is taught by the class teacher.

The children also need to play on TTRS each week as part of their homework.