Quest have requested that it would be best if children came in P.E. kits tomorrow!
Hope you are all excited for the trip this Wednesday!!
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Treat Day
Puffin class have successfully filled their marble jar, and will be having a treat afternoon on Tuesday 17th July 2018.
For the treat they have decided to:
- Come in own clothes!
- Watch a DVD
- Bring board games / a toy
- Bring electronics as long as it doesn’t use 3G or 4G connections
Please note that anything brought into school will be the responsibility of the pupil who has brought it in and please could it be clearly labelled!
Well done Puffins on working together to fill your jar!
Secondary Transfer Meeting
If you were unable to attend the Secondary Transfer meeting, which was held on Family Evening at Selsdon, I have attached the PowerPoint.
Homework Summer 2 Week 6
Summer 2 Week 6 – due in Wednesday 18th July 2018
Reading: You should be reading every day. Remember your comments should be detailed. Remember each day you can try to write a different comment.
For example:
Monday – Prediction
What do you think will happening in the next paragraph? Why?
How do you think the story will end why?
What will the character choose to do next? Why do you think this?
Tuesday – Comparing and Contrasting
Can you compare one character to another?
How does the character change throughout the text?
What is the most important section in this book and why?
What genre would you say this book is? Why?
Wednesday – Vocabulary
What is the definition of the word and explain how this word is used in the text?
Choose a word and find synonyms and antonyms for it?
What words describe the character? The setting? The atmosphere?
Thursday – Retrieval
Where and when is the story set? How do you know?
Why did the character make the choice they did?
What does the main character thinking of the other characters? How do you know?
What might the main character be thinking and why?
Friday – The Text
How does the text make you feel? Why?
What atmosphere does the author create and why?
Who would you recommend the book to and why?
Weekend- Your choice of comment!
Spellings: We have learnt words with silent letters this week. You must practise these spellings in your reading diary in the look, cover, write and check section. Please use this (Week beginning 9th July) to help you remember your spellings.
Advice Advise
Device Devise
Licence License
Practice Practise
Prophecy Prophesy
Mental Maths:
Underneath the look, cover, write section, there is a mental math box. For homework this week we would like you focus on a specific times table. (Practise this more than once in the mental math section.) This could also be the division facts of a times table.
You may also write about the successes you have had in learning this year!
Homework Summer 2 Week 5
Summer 2 Week 5 – due in Wednesday 11th June 2018
Reading: You should be reading every day. Remember your comments should be detailed. Remember each day you can try to write a different comment.
For example:
Monday – Prediction
What do you think will happening in the next paragraph? Why?
How do you think the story will end why?
What will the character choose to do next? Why do you think this?
Tuesday – Comparing and Contrasting
Can you compare one character to another?
How does the character change throughout the text?
What is the most important section in this book and why?
What genre would you say this book is? Why?
Wednesday – Vocabulary
What is the definition of the word and explain how this word is used in the text?
Choose a word and find synonyms and antonyms for it?
What words describe the character? The setting? The atmosphere?
Thursday – Retrieval
Where and when is the story set? How do you know?
Why did the character make the choice they did?
What does the main character thinking of the other characters? How do you know?
What might the main character be thinking and why?
Friday – The Text
How does the text make you feel? Why?
What atmosphere does the author create and why?
Who would you recommend the book to and why?
Weekend- Your choice of comment!
Spellings: We have learnt words with silent letters this week. You must practise these spellings in your reading diary in the look, cover, write and check section. Please use this (Week beginning 9th July) to help you remember your spellings.
Bought Fought
Thought Brought
Rough Tough
Enough Cough
Though Although
Mental Maths:
Underneath the look, cover, write section, there is a mental math box. For homework this week we would like you focus on a specific times table. (Practise this more than once in the mental math section.) This could also be the division facts of a times table.
Year 5 – Transition meeting, 5pm Wednesday 11th July
During the family evening, there will be representatives from different High Schools in the hall from 4:00pm – 5:00pm to share information about their schools with Year 5 parents.
At 5:00pm there will be a short presentation informing parents of what they need to do to apply for a High School place for next year.
Croydon haven’t yet published the admission packs for next year, but the old ones can be found here with details of the local secondary schools.
Homework Summer 2 Week 4
Summer 2 Week 4 – due in Wednesday 4th June 2018
Reading: You should be reading every day. Remember your comments should be detailed. Remember each day you can try to write a different comment.
For example:
Monday – Prediction
What do you think will happening in the next paragraph? Why?
How do you think the story will end why?
What will the character choose to do next? Why do you think this?
Tuesday – Comparing and Contrasting
Can you compare one character to another?
How does the character change throughout the text?
What is the most important section in this book and why?
What genre would you say this book is? Why?
Wednesday – Vocabulary
What is the definition of the word and explain how this word is used in the text?
Choose a word and find synonyms and antonyms for it?
What words describe the character? The setting? The atmosphere?
Thursday – Retrieval
Where and when is the story set? How do you know?
Why did the character make the choice they did?
What does the main character thinking of the other characters? How do you know?
What might the main character be thinking and why?
Friday – The Text
How does the text make you feel? Why?
What atmosphere does the author create and why?
Who would you recommend the book to and why?
Weekend- Your choice of comment!
Spellings: We have learnt words with silent letters this week. You must practise these spellings in your reading diary in the look, cover, write and check section. Please use this (Week beginning 25th June) to help you remember your spellings.
Possible Possibly
Horrible Horribly
Terrible Terribly
Visible Visibly
Incredible Incredibly
Mental Maths:
Underneath the look, cover, write section, there is a mental math box. For homework this week we would like you focus on a specific times table. (Practise this more than once in the mental math section.) This could also be the division facts of a times table.
OPTIONAL!
Do you want to be Head Boy or Girl?
If so, please begin to think about what you want to say to the class!
In each class we will be holding a lesson where you can speak to your classmates on why they should vote for you. Each class will then vote and the two children who receive the most votes in each Year 5 class will then speak in front of the school. As a school they will then vote for the tow children they wish to be Head Boy and Girl in Year 6.
Investigation insulation!
Year 5 have learnt what the scientific term – insulation – means. It is the process of keeping heat, sound, or electricity for dispersing from the original source. For example a thermos is used to keep a drink warm when it is cool and freezing outside. The thermos provides insulation and keeps the drink warm. Similarly, the insulation in an ice chest keeps your drinks and food cool when you are having a picnic and the weather is hot.
Year 5 investigated which material would be the best insulator to keep water warm!
What have you discovered from the experiment and what would you do next time and why?
Fantastic Flags
Year 5 have been learning how flags show how we belong to a community, organisation or nation. Flags are national symbols. Every country has got a specific flag as a national symbol. Year 5 learnt that the colours chosen and symbols all have meaning to them. For example, the circle of the sun symbolises unity and energy and the colour yellow stands for happiness and energy. From this understanding, year 5 began to draft a flag that represented them!
What are the most common symbols on flags?
What do the colours on the flags mean?
Locating, Locating, Locating.
In order to develop children’s map-reading skills, the children were set a variety of challenges to become more confident at using an atlas. They initially worked in pairs to challenge each other to find a given country and then had to identify the countries that share a border with it!
What strategies have you learnt to aid your map-reading skills?
