Last half term we had lots of fun learning about the Victorians, especially when we got to visit Blists Hill Victorian Town. Here are few photos from our trip.
Homework
This half term the homework will link to our Green Planet topic. This will be another project based homework, similar to last half term about the Victorians. The homework grid will be made available on Google Classroom from Friday 7th March.
We will explain the homework task to the pupils in class sessions this week and remind them of how to access this on Google Classroom.
St David's Day
This week pupils will be taking part in a variety of activities to celebrate St David's Day. Our theme for this year is the dragon. We will be reading the story about how we came to have the Welsh Dragon on our flag. Pupils will be retelling the story to the younger pupils during World Book Day activities. We will also be creating dragon artwork.
World Book Day Thursday 6th March
On Thursday we will be celebrating World Book Day. Pupils will have the opportunity to come to school dressed as their favourite character and bring in a book to share with the younger pupils during our reading buddy sessions. We will also be taking part in a BBC live lesson and completing book activities in class.
P.E
For the first few weeks back there will be some changes to the P.E. timetable due to various other celebrations and events going on in school.
Week beginning 3rd March: Year 5 and 6 will have P.E. on Wednesday only.
Week beginning 10th March: Year 6 P.E. will be on Wednesday. Year 5 P.E. will be on Thursday. No P.E. for either class on Friday.
After this, P.E. days will continue to be on a Wednesday and Friday for Year 6 and a Thursday and Friday for Year 5. No jewellery to be worn and hair tied back please.
Please can pupils ensure they wear school P.E. kit for our Wednesday and Thursday sessions. In our Friday sessions from Friday 21st March onwards we will be starting cross-country running, please can children wear warm, old clothes that they don't mind getting muddy. It would also be helpful if they brought a spare pair of trainers and a carrier bag to take home muddy shoes after the Friday sessions.
Maths
This half term we will be focussing on the following concepts:
Year 5
- Recognise acute and obtuse angles.
- Draw and measure acute angles in multiples of 10 degrees.
- Classifying and recognising different types of triangles.
- Draw squares, rectangles and right-angled triangles accurately.
- Construct solids from given nets.
- Extract and interpret data in a range of tables and charts.
- Represent data using conversion graphs.
- Use mean, median, mode and range to describe a set of data.
Year 6
- Data handling
- Area, perimeter and volume
- Using inverse operations
- Adding, subtracting, multiplying and dividing decimals.
- Fractions, decimals and percentages
Dates for your diary
- Monday 3rd - Wednesday 5th March St David's Day celebrations and activities taking place in classes.
- Thursday 6th March - World Book Day - Dress up as your favourite character and bring your favourite book to school.
- Friday 7th March - Technocamps Robotics Lego sessions
- Monday 10th and Tuesday 11th March - PC Stu will be delivering sessions to Y5 and Y6 pupils
- Friday 14th March - Holi Hindu Festival Day - pupils can dress up in bright colours as we learn about this religious festival
- Wednesday 26th March - Spectrum Consent Workshop with Y6
- Thursday 27th March - Castell Alun Wellbeing day - For Y6 pupils who will be attending Castell Alun in September
Credits:
Created with images by Antony McAulay - "Supporter of Wales" • Chinnapong - "Online education course, E-learning class and e-book digital technology concept with pc computer notebook open in blur school library or classroom background among old stacks of book, textbook" • Robert Herhold - "holi berlin" • Fahkamram - "books and light bulb on greenery background with copy space using as background education concept."