Good afternoon all,
We have had a great day today - lots of science investigating and our harvest coffee morning! Thank you to all of your support today coming to our harvest coffee morning - supported by our wonderful PTA! If any of you could volunteer at our fireworks event, please do let me or any PTA members know. Your support is necessary for these events to go ahead. Thank you!
500 Words Challenge
I would like all Year 5 children to enter the BBC's 500 Words Challenge. We need to submit these stories by Friday 8 November 2024. All children need to do is write a story they would love to read in 500 Words or less.
We would love children of all abilities to enter; spelling, punctuation and grammar are not marked - it's all about creativity!
50 finalists will be invited to go to a glamorous grand final at Buckingham Palace in February next year, where the bronze, silver and gold winners in each category will have their stories read out by celebrities.
There are also lots of prizes to be won - each winner will take home a bundle of books and the gold winners also win 500 books for their school library.
Children can only submit one story each. There are very few rules on 500 Words but a few points to remember:
All the stories must:
- Be 500 words or less (title is not included in the number)
- Be written by an individual and not a group
- Be a child’s own original idea
- Be prose, not rap or poem
Stories must not:
- Give any personal details of the child, including their name
- Recount an historical event (but they can use a real person or historical character as a source of inspiration)
- Be created, written or developed by AI
All stories will be judged on the following criteria:
- Characterisation
- Plot
- Originality
- Language
- Enjoyment
Home Learning
In Year 5, we will ask your child to ensure that they complete the following compulsory learning at home:
- Reading 5 times a week
- Practising spellings each week between the pre-test and test (Test on Monday).
- Practising maths on Sumdog
- Practising times tables on TT Rockstars
- Completing the half termly project
- 500 Words Project.
PE Timetable
Monday 1hr (Football)
Wednesday - Swimming.
Thursday trainers only
Spellings
Test 7th October
Dogs
horrible
terrible
possible
edible
reversible
invincible
legible
adorable
forgivable
disposable
enjoyable
Wolves
hiss
kiss
mass
mess
toss
boss
pass
fuss
less
cross
Next Week
Maths - Using the inverse to solve addition and subtraction.
English - We will continue working on our book Could Tea Monkeys.
Science - Night and day international.
Computing - To explain how search results are ranked.
RE - The Sikh pilgrimage to Harmandir Sahib in Amritsar North India.
History - To learn about the impact of the ancient Greek civilisation on the modern world.
Art - Creating our final piece.
Spanish- Telling the time.
Half term project
Your project for this half term – Exploring Space
As you know, this half term we are studying space in Science. I would like you to study some of the areas of space that you have an interest in. Your learning outcome could be a PowerPoint, a Word processed or handwritten project, a model or sculpture. This should demonstrate the research you have put in over the weeks before the deadline of Monday 21st October when you will share your learning with the class.
You could study (but are not restricted to):
- The moon landings
- Could there be life on other planets?
- Black holes, meteors and other space features
- Constellations of stars
You could create (but are not restricted to):
- A model of a planet
- A game themed around space
- A story based in space
- A written project on space features
Have a great weekend!
Miss N Davis
ndavis@littleheath.herts.sch.uk
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