Home – School link: March & April 2015
We hope that you found our last newsletter beneficial in knowing what your child would
be covering in class. Please remember that this may be subject to change.
World Around Us
We have been working on our topic called ‘It’s a
Disaster’. This includes looking at natural disasters
that happen in our world. We have finished learning
about the Titanic and we are now focusing natural
disasters like earthquakes, floods, hurricanes and
tsunamis.
After Easter. our summer term topic is called ‘River
of Life’.
This will include a case study on the River Nile,
looking at the positive aspects of flooding.
Numeracy and Mathematics.
We are covering the following
areas in class and they should be
supported by your child’s
homework.
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Compass points
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Angles
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2D shapes
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Perimeter
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Area
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Decimals
We are continuing to focus on multiplication and
division tables. It is extremely important that your
child learns his or her tables every night to ensure
that they achieve success in their written
calculations.
We are continuing our PIN (Parental Involvement in
Numeracy) We hope you are enjoying playing the
games together at home. It is important to play the
games regularly to reinforce mathematical skills.
The Arts
Language and Literacy
A major focus this term will be the types of words
we use in the English language. In these two months
we will look mainly at:

conjunctions
As we have covered nouns, pronouns, verbs, adverbs
and adjectives in in Year 5 already we will be
encouraging pupils to include these in their individual
writing and would ask you to do the same with work
at home.
As we have just celebrated World Book Day (5th
March), please continue to encourage your child to
read both their class novel and library book. Don’t
forget to ask them questions about new books,
events and characters.
During March, our class novel is ‘Bill’s New Frock,’ a
lot of our Literacy lessons will be linked to this
novel.
Linguistic Phonics
All the pupils in year 5 are working hard on their
linguistic phonics.
Each week spellings will continue to be linguistic
phonics based or topic related (cued spellings)
Personal Development and
Mutual Understanding
We are continuing our new PATHS programme.
Children are learning to talk about their feelings
and how to deal with them.
The children are very excited about who is going to
be ‘Pupil of the Day.’
Important Notes and Dates
(Music, Drama, Art and Design)
With St Patricks Day, Mothers Day and Easter
coming up, we will be linking our Art and Design to
these traditional calendar days.
The children are continuing to enjoy their weekly
Musical Pathways Lessons.
5th March: World Book Day
17th March: St Patrick’s Day: No school
27th March: Half day (Easter Holidays)
13th April: Term 3 commences.
Our new school website will soon be going LIVE!
Home – School link: March & April 2015
We hope that you found our last newsletter beneficial in knowing what your child would
be covering in class. Please remember that this may be subject to change.