• Bletchley Park Films
• Poetry by heart
• Learning outside the classroom

Dear Class 5 children and parents,

Welcome back to the second half of the summer term!

For this half term, your school work will have five areas of focus.

1. Maths. This will continue to be based on White Rose Maths, with video lessons on the White Rose home learning page, and the associated worksheets and answers available on the homework page each week. Linked games will be made available in a homework area of Education City each week too.
2. Reading and literacy.  Just like last half term, you will work in a small group with a zoom chat once weekly with one of your teachers. During the zoom conversation, you will discuss the text you are reading together, share your work from the previous week and discuss your next steps.

We will also expect you to be able to talk about your other reading each week. If you need a new book to read, please email us and we will arrange for you to collect some from school.

We will also set an additional literacy task which will vary from week to week.

These zoom conversations will be at the same time as the past half term.

3. Science. Mrs Davis is setting a weekly science challenge. Please check her discussion each week and be sure to add your own information.
4. Topic. Our focus for our whole class topic this half term will be Oceans. We are massively excited about this as it gives lots of scope for you to learn about really interesting things, as well as opportunities to pursue areas which particularly interest you. All work is to be shared in a new blog. Each zoom group will be responsible for learning about aspects of a different ocean, to make sure that we all learn as much as we can and share the learning effectively. There is a list of question prompts in your pack to help and you will also be chatting about your work so far in your zoom group each week.
5. Digital challenges.  We will be setting a number of different digital challenges during this half term. Some of these will be completed in a week, others may take a little longer.

You remain in a group with your friends, so that you can get together online and talk about your work and your learning in between your weekly chat with us.

All of the week’s work will be listed in your homework when you log in to the website. Work for Week 1 is also on the attached sheet.

NB. If you are sharing work through the website, always make sure you type it in a document before copying it and uploading it to the website. This should make sure you do not lose any work. If you want to share a video, please email it to one of us, and we can enjoy it and upload it if necessary to the website.

Every week, one of us will give feedback on work you have shared. This may be in one of the following ways – through a specific homework feedback, through interactions on your thread of a blog, or within the discussion page. If you email us work, we will respond by email.

If you have any questions about any of this, please give us an email.

Here’s to another successful half term of working and learning together.

Mrs Thomas Mrs Lloyd Mrs Davis