Welcome to 5T

Our teacher is Mrs Tennant
Our teaching assistants are Mrs Kaur, Mrs Shahzad and Mrs Duberry.

Children need to be reading 5 times per week and their home reading books need to be in school every day.

Swimming is on Monday afternoon and PE is on Thursday morning.

Spellings will be given out on a Friday, please practise these at home. Children have their Doodle Maths logins and should use it daily for 5-10 minutes.

Creative Curriculum – Pharaohs

Can you help your child learn to read and understand the meaning to these topic related words for ‘Pharaohs’.

What Are We Learning?

In English, we will read Oranges in No Man’s Land, asking and answering questions and making predictions. We will be focusing on different spelling, punctuation and grammar skills to write a newspaper report.

In Maths, we will be studying geometry in which we will be looking at facts about angles and shape. We then move onto our position and movement topic looking at translation and reflection.

We will be incorporating Science into our Creative Curriculum topic this half term and learning all about Earth and Space. We will look at the planets and the length of time it takes to orbit the sun. We will be looking at day and night and the job of the Moon.

In PSHE we are learning about ‘Relationships’. We will look at different types of relationships and how to resolve problems in our relationships.

In Latin, we are introducing the language and where the English language comes from.

We will be following Charanga online this half term, looking at Dancing in the Street by Martha and The Vandellas.

In Computing, we will use Purple Mash to ensure that we are keeping ourselves safe online. We will be learning about what online safety is and how we should protect ourselves as well as others.