Welcome to Year 5

Welcome back! We hope you had a wonderful summer break. Below you will find some information about this term.

School uniform

Please make sure that the uniform is always of the highest standard and long hair is tied back. More information can be found on our website under 'Our Parents'.

PE

Please note, PE for the first term will be on Tuesday and Thursday.

Please come to school in your PE kit ready for these lessons. Please make sure you have a change of indoor shoes for the rest of the day whilst you are in the classroom and school building and that all of your kit is labelled with your name. Remember earrings must be covered or removed and hair, shoulder-length or longer, needs to be tied back. PLEASE – make sure you have the correct PE kit and in the school colours. 

Class Reading Book

This term we will be reading Malamander by Thomas Taylor. We have enough copies for every child, your child is welcome to bring in their own copy if they have one.

 Loving to Learn at Home-KS2

Learning Missions: KS2

Mission Control: 

Read 📚 (non-negotiable)
Read for 20 minutes each day and talk to someone about it. Recommend your book to someone else.

Number Facts 🔢 (non-negotiable) 

Practise any facts that you don’t yet know with instant recall- this can be in the car, on a walk, while brushing your teeth. Use songs, rhymes, actions and so on. Know them off by heart. 

Mission 1 – Investigate 🔎
Visit the class page to look at the knowledge organisers and extend your learning on it. You could present this in a quiz, wordsearch, crossword, poster, booklet the options are endless!

Mission 2 – Real Life Maths 🧮
Find a maths problem in everyday life and work it out. Practise telling the time and handling money. Visit TTRS too to practise your times table and division recall. 

Mission 3 – Think 💭
Discuss this week's big question with someone at home.

Mission 4 – Create 🎨
Show something you have learned in a creative way. Build it, act it, sing /rap it, sew it, draw it, paint it. We’d love to see how you have been inspired.

Mission 5 – Challenge Yourself ⭐
Choose something you find difficult and practise it. Remember every time you challenge yourself, you grow your brain. You could login to Language Nut and challenge yourself to learn a new language.

Please choose 2 missions each week to complete at home. We would love you to share your learning missions with your teacher and class. We will display your learning in the hall for everyone to see. We have posted spelling lists and knowledge organisers for some subjects to support your learning.

Have fun!

We are really looking forward to supporting you throughout this year, so please come and talk to us if you have any worries, however great or small.

If your grown-ups have any queries or concerns this term, they are more than welcome to contact me via the school office at office@greatmiltonschool.co.uk or come and speak to me at the end of the day.

Here's to a great year.

Mrs Marrison

Mr Salt