Welcome Back!

Welcome Back to the Spring Term! I hope you all had a good break and enjoyed your time with family and friends over the festive period.

Maths this half term

English this half term

Long Division – dividing by a 2-digit number

Percentages – ways to find a percentage of an amount including a little help from the commutative law

Order of Operations – which order do you a calculation if it involves a mix of operations

Problem Solving - involving multiple steps and operations

Times Tables – 8s, 9s, 12s

Writing – Composition

• How to Care for a Fantastical Creature
• Balanced Argument

Handwriting - correct letter formation and joining

Spelling – weekly spellings to practise at home for a test on Friday

Grammar – parentheses, relative pronouns and clauses, adverbial phrases, imperative and modal verbs

Reading –

• Finishing The Explorer by Katherine Rundell 
• Beginning The Boy in the Tower by Polly Ho-Yen

As well as a variety of texts from the Literacy Shed including one unit on Cyborgs – all focused on honing retrieval and inference comprehension skills

Science this term

RE this half term

• Animals Incl. Humans – human life cycle
• Forces – Galileo and Gravity

How has belief in Christianity and Islam impacted on music and art through history?

Wider Curriculum this half term

Important dates

History – Mayans

Geography – 4 & 6 figure grid references

Music – Musical Notation

Art & Design – Food Technology

PE – Chance to Shine Cricket & Dance (Bollywood & Line Dancing)

Computing – Everyone Can Code

French – Local places, emotions and numbers 0-100

RSHE – Yr5 – Puberty, Yr6 – Sex Education

• Reading records checked every Friday
• Spellings given out every Friday and tested the following Friday
• PE every Thursday and Friday
• Forest Schools will take place in the Summer Term
• Sainfoin Trip to Leicester Space Centre 13^th March – details to be confirmed
• SEND Parents Evenings – 28^th January
• Sainfoin Maths Café – Tuesday 3^rd February

Helping at home

Times tables – songs, practise, games. All tables from 1-12 with division facts. Times tables underpin every aspect of maths and are a vital skill that is essential for success in Key Stage 2 and beyond as well as a valuable life skill!

Reading 5 times a week – please ensure your child reads 5 times per week – one of these must be aloud to you or another adult at home. Please sign their homework diary weekly to show you have seen them reading.

Spelling – please help your child to practise their weekly spellings in preparation for their weekly test. Spellings are a crucial part of being successful across the curriculum in Key Stage 2 and beyond.