SPLAT Play in a Day

Just a little reminder; the Year 5 children are lucky enough to be joined in school, by the SPLATS Play in a day team on Thursday 11^th September. Throughout their time in school, SPLATS will work with all children to produce a play based on Robin Hood. All children will be taking part and will have many important jobs to do, such as prop and costume making, as well as an acting role in the play.

We will be in school all day, so no other arrangements for lunches or collection from school is required. Children will, as always, need to make sure that they are in school promptly at 8:55am, as we will be starting at 9:00am We are all really looking forward to the team working with us, and hope that the children will enjoy it too!

Bigwood Biathlon

On Wednesday 10^th September, both year 5 classes will be lucky enough to travel to Southglade Leisure Centre to take part in a biathlon event, organized and ran by the Sports Leaders from Bigwood School. The children are very excited to take part in a swimming challenge and then complete a gruelling long distance run immediately after they have left the pool.

Upon passing the finish line, each child will receive a gold medal and a goodie bag for completing the event. We know that all the children will thoroughly enjoy this event, and hope that this is the first of many sporting achievements that our children can look forward to this year.

Welcome back

Welcome back – we hope you all had a great summer and are ready for the busy term ahead. The autumn tern focusses heavily on building a solid foundation for the year! As always we will be expecting the children to be focussed and ready to learn at all times.

We will be covering a few topics this term including; the history of Medieval times, the art work of LS Lowry and Robin Hood. We will teach mental maths on a Tuesday's and Monday’s English lesson will be focusing on reading comprehension. In addition to this, all English lessons will be started with a Rainbow Grammar Blast; a new initiative rolled out through school. Times Tables tests will also be carried out on Thursday afternoon.

Miss Gethings will be teaching in class 5G all week, and in class 5OB, Miss Ordoyno will be teaching Tuesday – Friday, and Mrs Bird will be in there on a Monday. Mrs Bishell will be supporting both classes all week, with Mr Kelly working with us Tuesday to Thursday. In addition, Miss Pallander will be supporting individual children in 5G in the mornings. Miss Jessop, a student teacher working on the School Direct programme, will also be working with 5G all year, as part of her ongoing training.