Welcome to Class 5P

Your class teacher is Ms Powell.

Welcome back to the Summer Term! 

Please remember PE days are on Mondays and Tuesdays. Please wear PE kit on these days. 

Please remember to send children in with a small snack and a water bottle. Also, appropriate clothing to match the weather. Homework – TTR, Spelling Shed, Maths Shed. Also, please remember children should be reading for at least 20 minutes a day, at home. 

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This half term is another busy one!

English Writing – We will be studying the book ‘Hidden Figures’ by Margot Lee Shetterley. Hidden Figures explores the biographies of three African American women who worked as computers to solve problems for engineers and others at NASA. For the first years of their careers, the workplace was segregated and women were kept in the background as human computers.

The children will have the opportunity to: write a persuasive letter, order key events chronologically and identify relevant and key information through research.

English Reading Skellig David Almond - Echo reading, reading to a partner, vocabulary through inference, reading comprehension, retrieval and summarising.

Writing: Persuasive letter and biography – based on Hidden Figures

Maths – Shape, Position and Direction and Decimals

Please continue to support your children with learning/securing their times table knowledge through Times Table Rockstars.

Science - Living things and their habitats including life cycles and animal and plant reproduction

Geography – Where does our energy come from? What is renewable energy and why is it important. How is energy generated. What are the benefits of solar panels?

R.E. Why do some people believe in God and some people not? Exploring the idea of God both psychologically and theologically to offer reasons why some people may choose to believe or not believe in God.

DT – Pop-up book – create a functional pop-up storybook design, using lever, sliders, layers and spacers to create paper-based mechanisms.

French – Clothes

PSHE – Health and Wellbeing

Music – Compositions for the festival of colour – to know that a vocal composition is a piece of music created only using voices.

Lots of fun learning ahead so please make sure
you are in school every day and ready to learn!

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