Welcome to Mr Murphy's class information

Year 5/6

This Terms Topics
Potions!

Autumn term 1

Health & Well Being
PE Skills
Fitness
Develop agility, balance and coordination
The potion to be the best me!
Healthy bodies Healthy minds The potion of happiness Classroom rules
Healthy eating
Looking after each other Looking after your new classroom

Language, Literacy & Communication

Developing cursive formation Focusing on capital letters and full stops
Character profiles Instruction on how to be healthy
Poetry Book reviews
Group work, meetings, and discussions
Developing spelling skills Persuasive writing – convince your class peers to vote for your potion
Guided reading
Individual reading
Alliteration & similes
Novel time
Holiday news Welsh patterns: Sut wyt ti’n teimlo heddiw? Ble wyt ti’n byw? Beth wyt ti’n hoffi? Beth wyt ti ddim yn hoffi?

Mathematics & Numeracy

Order numbers to 100, 500, & 1000
​ 1 more, 10 more,
100 more 1 less, 10 less & 100 less Identifying properties of a number Representing numbers Creating number lines More, less and the same Investigating a given number Find the missing number Partitioning numbers into H T U
Learning timetables
Column addition
Measuring liquids.

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Science & Technology

Body parts
Exploring and creating potions
Science project: What is the runniest liquid?
Using Word art on the computer
​Staying safe online

Humanities

Flag of the week
Population
capital cities
​ language spoken

Expressive Arts

Songs / singing assembly
Simple photography
Simple filming
Colour mixing
​Designing labels for a potion

If children or parents have any ideas that could compliment our topics, please feel free to share these with us through class dojo. 

Monday

Reading books

Spelling

Spelling words handed out.
Please learn your words for next Mondays test.
Spelling sheets are given out and do not need to be handed back to the teacher.

Reading books and reading records are to be brought into school daily. Parents please sign the reading record daily.

My Maths homework will be set each Monday and is to be completed by the following Monday.
Please see below for how to log on.

Tuesday

Reading
​books

Wednesday

Reading
​books

Thursday

Reading
​books

PE KIT

Please wear your P.E kit on this day.

Friday

Reading books

HOMEWORK

Reading

Spelling

Maths

All pupils are to read at home daily and parents are to sign the reading records.
Pupils need to bring both their reading book and reading record to school every day. Class Dojos will be given every morning. 

Pupils will be given 10-15 spelling words to learn each week. During the week we will work on these words by developing our sentence writing and handwriting.
A test will be given once a week on a Monday. The spelling sheet does not need to be handed into the class teacher.

All pupils have been given a username and password.
Please go to www.mymaths.co.uk
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