Fielding Primary School and Nursery
17th - 20th May 2019.
Booking for this trip is now closed.
See what Year 5 got up to last year...
Dear Parents and Carers,
In PSHE children will chew on a disclosing tablet to show up the plaque on their teeth. Children in 5H, 5F and 5S will need to bring their toothbrush on Friday 16th November 2018.
Our creative home-learning is Thursday 13th December 2018 - from 3pm - parents, carers and families are invited to come along. The options are now published.
We have an exciting trip to The Tower of London: 5F and 5P 10th December, 5S and 5H 11th December. LETTER IS BELOW - payment on Laser from 9/11/18
In science, we will be looking at the life cycle of a human being. Children need to bring in a baby photo of themselves. Please ensure it is not an original and has their name on the back so that it can be returned to them. The topic will talk about growing old.
We would love for any grandparents to come in to talk to us about their life experiences to share in this topic.
Can you help?
Thank you so much to everyone who has volunteered to come and talk to the children.
Do you have an interesting hobby or job? we'd love for parents to come in to speak with the children about how maths, english, values and other subjects, have helped you to be successful. If you'd like to come in, please let Miss Calver know. Thanks already to Dr Hillman.
Can you help out weekly in class to hear children read or help out in the year group? Please let Miss Calver know if you can.
Class sharing Assemblies:
16th Nov 5S, 23rd Nov 5P, 30th Nov 5F and 7th Dec 5H
Due: Tuesday 13th November 2018
CGP English: Page 54
CGP Maths: Page 24
Due: Tuesday 20th November 2018
CGP English: Page 55
CGP Maths: Pages 23
These are the underlying principles of our Visible Learning approach to teaching and learning at Fielding. They are important components within our assessment structure, which pupils are very much a part of.
The principles that underpin our assessment system are:
Every child can achieve: teachers at Fielding have the mindset, ‘What do I need to do next to enable a child in my class to achieve?’
Objectives from the National Curriculum are used as the expectations for all children.
Pupils will make age appropriate progress from their different starting points – 12 months in 12 months, more for those who need to 'close the gap' to reach age related expectations.
Teachers are experts at assessment - assessment is effectively used to ensure the correct scaffolding is built into lessons to ensure all children achieve.
Books home, at least once each term your child will come home with their English and maths books, ready to share their progress with you, You will have an opportunity to make comments on this to share with your child and the class teacher.
Autumn 2 - Friday 23rd November return books Monday 25th November
Spring 2 - Friday 15th March return books Monday 18th March
Summer 2 - Friday 28th June return books Monday 1st July
We send books home on the Friday to be looked at by adults over the weekend and require all books to be returned to school on the following Monday.
Top education researchers tell us that homework has minimal impact for primary age pupils, unless it requires children to rehearse and practise. We have therefore adapted our routines to reflect this. The routines for children in this year group are as follows:
You will be able to see achievement and progress through the dictation and times tables challenge sheets going home weekly. You will also be able to witness progress through class exercise books for English and maths being sent home at least once during every term as well as at parent consultation meetings.
Reading journals should be signed each night. Children must bring them in daily. The diary and organisation of this resource will prepare the child for further independence.
Encourage them to select age appropriate books both fiction and non-fiction. Newspapers, magazines and pamphlets are also great materials to read.
The English team in school have worked hard to identify 40 appropriately challenging books for the children in year 5. The recommended reading lists contain 40 age-appropriate books for children in Year 5 which will capture the children's imagination. The lists contain colour-bands and a description of the books so that the children are able to 'cherry-pick' their favourites according to their book-band level and their personal interests.
While it is not compulsory for the children to read these books, it is highly recommended as it will deepen your child's inference, retrieval and vocabulary skills while also strengthening their love for reading.
While it is NOT compulsory there are school wide incentives - At the end of each half-term, teachers will award bronze, silver and gold certificates in reward assembly to pupils who have read a set number of books from their year group list AND completed a short reading response activity in their reading records (where possible).
Ideas for these short reading responses might be any one of the following;
- Describing settings and characters from the story
- Identifying possible alternative endings
- Predicting what might be in a sequel (the next book if the story was carried on)
- Summarising the story in 6 bullet points
- Writing a book review
If you have any queries or questions, please do not hesitate to contact your child’s class teacher.
Many thanks,
The Year Five Team
Home learning tasks are completed at home with you supporting your child should they need help. It is based on what they have been covering in school that week and is a chance for them to consolidate their learning.
The home learning books will be sent home on a Thursday and should be returned to school the following Tuesday. Tasks will be set by the teacher and checked and assessed (using the back of the book) by you, the parent. This gives you an opportunity to see how well your child is progressing and what they are very confident with and what they sometimes may need extra support with.
While class teachers do not mark the home learning, if you would like to share how your child found the activity with the class teacher there is a section which allows for this in the reading record and planner under "Messages for my child's teacher." This will make us aware of how your child found the activity - especially if they required a lot of support.
See below for this terms exciting home learning...
Children need to revise the Year 5 spelling list (sent home on Monday 5th September). There is a link below. These will be tested termly.
Children will be taught spellings and tested on them weekly. We will be using the Read, Write, Inc scheme as they did in Year 4.
The Year 5 and 6 list should be learnt also as this is the government expectation.
Times Tables Rockstars is a online programme we have introduced to encourage children to have fun with multiplication facts while improving fluency, recall and speed. Children can access it in their own time on any IOS, Android or Windows device.
Times Tables Rock Stars is a carefully sequenced programme of times tables practice. This programme has very successfully boosted times tables recall speed for hundreds of thousands of pupils over the last 7 years in over 4500 schools - both primary and secondary - worldwide.
Incorrect answers are always immediately corrected in front of your child so that they start to associate the correct answer to every question. The clever code behind the scenes works out which times tables facts each child is consistently taking longer to answer and then it gradually starts to present these facts more frequently until they have mastered them. It will also ask related division questions 20% of the time in order to reinforce division facts.
No, this is to supplement the times tables challenge, giving children a fun way to practise and challenge themselves.
From June 2020, all pupils at the end of year 4 in England will take an online multiplication tables check .The national curriculum specifies that pupils at this stage should be able to recall the multiplication tables up to and including 12x12.
The check aims to support pupils to master multiplication skills, which are essential for future success in mathematics. It will help to identify pupils who have not yet mastered this mathematical concept, so additional support can be provided.
Log in here: https://ttrockstars.com/login, use your child'd details that came home at the end of the Summer Term, lost them? Speak to your child's class teacher.
Children should know all times tables by the end of Year 4. Please encourage children to practice with games, songs and play. Many resources can be found online.
English: Children will continue to write a non-chronological report about the plague. This week and next week.
Maths: We will be going over written division.
Science: Life cycles of a human being.
Fielding Learning Challenge Curriculum (FLCC): This is a project all about The gunpowder plot, great fire of London and the plague - all set in the Stuart times.
Reading, drawing and finding out about this amazing part of world will be taking place. Children can research at home as well.