Themed menu 04 November 2022
Catering Agency, our school meal provider, will be running a special themed menu on Friday 04 November. Bonfire night menu. Please contact the office if your child would like a school dinner on this day (no action required if your child normally has a school meal on this day).
History: Ancient Egypt
This week in History, we have been looking at how different groups of people contributed to the achievements of Ancient Egypt.
The children started off by matching the different job roles to their definitions and then ordering them in the importance of their contributions to Ancient Egyptian society. Here are some examples:
Afterwards, we focused in on the Ancient Egyptian farmers and the children used hieroglyphics to decode information about their job roles. Take a look at some of our fantastic work!
Living and Learning – I respect others
In Living and Learning, we looked at how we respect others. We discussed discrimination, protected characteristics and the Equality Act 2010.
Discrimination is defined as “the unfair treatment of people because of who they are or because they have a certain characteristic.”
The protected characteristics are:
- Race
- Age
- Sex
- Sexual orientation
- Pregnancy and Maternity
- Disability
- Religion/Belief
- Gender reassignment
- Marriage and Civil partnership
We looked at different scenarios (both made up and real-life cases), where people were treated unfairly and tried to find a solution to the problem.
We now have a greater understanding that individual characteristics make everyone in the world unique and we can respect people in several different ways.
Netball skills with Tracey Neville
Today, ten Year 5 and 6 children took part in a netball skills event with Tracey Neville, former England netball international and England head coach, at the opening of the new sports dome at The Grammar School at Leeds.
The children enjoyed three skills sessions – shooting, passing and defending and the consensus from all of them, was that they had a fantastic afternoon.
Themed menu 07 October 2022
Catering Agency, our school meal provider, will be running a special themed menu on Friday 07 October. Please contact the office if your child would like a school dinner on this day (no action needed if your child normally has a school meal on this day).
Check out the Cricket World Cup themed menu.
Reading Records
So far this half term, we have battled who has the best book, explored vocabulary and this week we are creating comic strips.
Take a look at some of our fantastic reading record activities:
Please remember to bring your reading records into school every Friday so we can continue to share your great work. If you need help to complete an activity, take a look in the front of your reading records as each task is explained or simply ask me.
I’m looking forward to seeing your homework!
Miss Goswami
Autumn term after-school clubs
Some of our after-school clubs will be restarting next week and they will run until week commencing 05 December. Please note some clubs begin after half term when building work at school has been completed.
Places can be booked via Gateway.
Our physical activity clubs continue to be heavily subsidised through the investment of our PE and Sport Premium.
Each club has a limit on the maximum number of children who can attend. As numbers are limited we ask that you limit your child to one club initially. If there are clubs with remaining places, we will then offer these as a second club.
Please contact the office if you have any queries about the clubs or the booking system.
Well Done Year 5!
A HUGE Well done to Year 5 for powering through our first week at school. You have been resilient learners; working incredibly hard this week, even with the challenge of being in the hall. You should be especially proud!
Important information:
- P.E. days are Monday and Wednesday (please come into school in your P.E kit on these days). Please check the uniform policy for appropriate PE kit.
- Homework – every Friday your child will come home with homework, which will be reviewed the following Friday.
- Spelling – your child will come home with a list of spellings from that week’s learning.
- Reading – your child will come home with an activity to complete in their reading records.
- Times Tables – your child will come home with a times tables target. Practise in short (but often) chunks of about 10-15 minutes per day.
- Talk Time- your child will come home with a topic to discuss with you at home.
- Bags- whilst we have limited space in the hall, please continue to not bring bags into school.
Keep up the great work Year 5!
Summer of sport
It’s just 7 days to go until the Commonwealth Games begin in Birmingham. Watch this introductory video to find out more.
To keep active over the summer holidays, why not try these commonwealth personal best challenges at home. My Commonwealth PB incorporates skills that are used in 7 of the sports which will be taking place at the B2022
Commonwealth Games.
Use the QR codes below to see each challenge.
We’d love to hear how you get on!
