Friday 4th October

Happy Friday!

This week, we have counted like Romans, traded with the Obas and written some amazing expanded noun phrases.

This week, we have continued to study Place Value in Maths, focusing on rounding and Roman numerals, we will complete this early next week and move on to our next area, which is Addition and Subtraction. In English, we have started to study our new text Firebird, which is based on a traditional Russian tale. (See link on Dojo for the story, if you want to share it at home.)
In Science we worked on formulations, using concentrations of squash to investigate and find out more.  History saw us thinking about trade in the Benin Kingdom - which goods were traded and why. In P.E. we have continued to work on teamwork and fitness in one session and Football skills in the other, with our Saints South West coach. 

The children have also been thinking about the qualities of a good friend in PSHE this afternoon with Miss Penny. 

The spelling results in this weeks test were superb, most of the children scoring between 80 and 100%. Keep that home learning going! 

An upcoming event for the year 5s is Bikeability (cycling proficiency). This will take place during the week beginning Monday 11th November. The letter will come out next week but the consent form for this is available through the link below. If you wish your child to take part (it's free of charge and teaches them a valuable life skill) you will need to complete the consent form by 1st November at the latest.

https://forms.gle/gATE2GV9PLX2xb7n8

Next week, we will continue with our English text Firebird. We will complete our work on Place Value in Maths, explore the society of the Benin Kingdom in History and investigate Separating mixtures in Science. 

P.E. will continue to be on Tuesday and Friday for this half term so please send the children in with their kits on these days. 

Finally, the children will come home with their homework books today. In these there are spellings for this week, Maths questions based on what we have been doing in class and a topic homework with a choice of activities. Please could the book come back in on Thursday next week for marking and so that the children can add next week's home learning.

Have a great weekend everybody, see you on Monday.

​Mr Foreman