Lostock Gralam C of E Primary School
Skylarks WB 07.03.22
Date: 3rd Mar 2022 @ 11:21pm
Hello everyone and welcome back to Skylarks weekly blog ?
What a super week back we have had in Skylarks Class. It was fantastic to see so many of the children dress up for World Book Day. We had a fun-filled day sharing our favourite stories, hearing from an author and performing our own poem for Starlings class!
Reminders:
Parents Evening: Parent phone calls for Skylarks class will take place on Tuesday 8th March between 8.30am and 12pm. Face to face appointments will take place after school on Tuesday 8th March and Wednesday 9th March. If you have not yet booked your time slot, please contact the school office.
Skylarks Trip: We can’t wait to visit Tatton Old Hall on Friday 11th March for our Viking and Anglo-Saxon living history day. Please ensure your child is in full school uniform, sensible shoes and has a warm, waterproof coat. Packed lunches must be in a disposable plastic bag clearly labelled with your child’s name. Children should arrive into school promptly at 8.30am.
Next Week (W.B. 07.03.22)
In English, the children will be continuing their learning on performance poetry with Miss Wilson. They will be using their plans to write their own free verse poem on the theme of refugees. Children will apply all of their learning on the features and structure of poems.
In Shared Reading, we will be starting our new text ‘Exploring Space’. Our focus will be on identifying how language, structure and presentation contribute to meaning.
In maths, we will be consolidating and applying our knowledge of written methods of multiplication and division to help us solve tricky problems. We will then be moving on to learn about fractions, in particular equivalent fractions. We will also consolidate our understanding of the four operations through daily 4-A-Day activities.
During our history and geography day, we will recap the chronology of the different civilisations we have studied over the past 3 years, such as the Stone/Bronze/Iron Age, Shang Dynasty, Romans, Anglo-Saxons and Vikings. Children will then compare these civilisations and explain which they would prefer to live in, using their understanding of these time periods to justify their answer.
In art, we will continue to study the Viking Jelling style of artwork. We will be applying our learning on sketching to produce a final piece of artwork inspired by this style. We will then self and peer assess to evaluate our work.
Our PE day next week will be on Wednesday due to our trip on Friday. yYour child should come to school in their PE kit on this day. Please remember PE kits should either be school kits or plain black/blue.
Homework
In year 5 the children will be set a weekly maths homework that they should complete and mark at home using the answers in the back of the homework book.
If your child is finding the homework tricky, Mrs Hulse and I will ensure that supervision is provided on a Wednesday lunchtime for your child to ask any questions or receive some support to complete their homework.
The children should complete page 26 of their maths book to be returned by Friday 11th March. This homework is looking at problem solving using written multiplication and division.
Please also encourage your child to read for 20 minutes each evening and practice their spellings/times tables. The following websites are both great for times tables practice:
https://ttrockstars.com/
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button
Our spellings for the quiz on Thursday 10th March will focus on words ending in the suffix -ence:
Absence, evidence, independence, intelligence, silence, confidence, competence, magnificent
Please remember that if you have any questions or queries, do not hesitate to get in contact ?
Miss Beattie x