Dear Parents and Carers,

We are very pleased to welcome you back for this new school year in Year 5. We have lots of exciting and interesting things planned for the year, and we hope you are looking forward to it as much as we are.

We will begin our English learning with a story called ‘Gorilla’, which is an adventure story, by the author Anthony Browne, and then move onto a non-fiction text by writing a biography of David Attenborough. In Maths, we will begin looking Place Value and then Addition and Subtraction. We will be developing our confidence with our number range, and develop our speed and accuracy with our calculation methods.

Across the rest of the curriculum, we are growing our learning in:

Science	Humanities	Art/Design Technology	Computing	Music	PE
Living Things and their Habitats	History: Ancient Egyptians	DT: Bag making	Sharing Information	Classroom Jazz (glockenspiels)	Indoor: Bootcamp Outdoor: Football

How can you help with your child’s learning in school and at home?

This term we would like you to help the children to find out about Ancient Egypt by creating a factfile or poster about a famous Egyptian person or place.

To share in our learning, please follow us on twitter to keep up to date @CroylandKS2

Mrs Wright and Mr Gayton

CPSwright@croylandprimary.org.uk

CPSmgayton@croylandprimary.org.uk

Timetable

PE DAY Indoor Outdoor	Indoor-Friday Outdoor-Thursday
LIBRARY DAY	The children are able to access the Library daily during Morning Work time, and during Lunchtime.
MUSIC DAY	Monday with Miss Beavis
SWIMMING DAY	N/A
HOMEWORK EXPECTATION	Read with your child a minimum of 3 times a week Complete a minimum of 3 games on Spelling Shed each week Complete a minimum of 20 minutes on TTRockstars each week   In term 1, your child will also receive a 10 minute maths practice book. They will write the pages they need to complete in their reading journal for each week. These will need to be handed in by Thursday morning, and a new page will be given on Friday for the next week.
HOMEWORK TO BE HANDED IN	Journals will be checked every Friday, as will Spelling Shed and TTRockstars.

PE Kit

	Boys	Girls
Indoor	White t-shirt Black shorts	White t-shirt Black shorts or black cycling shorts
Outdoor	White t-shirt Plain tracksuit Trainers (Yrs 1-6)	White t-shirt Plain tracksuit Trainers (Yrs 1-6)

Long hair needs to be tied back for PE.

Earrings should not be worn for PE or swimming or after school clubs.

Jewellery, other than a stud pair of earrings and a watch, should not be worn at all.

Please remember:

• Child’s water bottle and snack – we are a nut free school- please do not send nut products in
• To book meals on ParentPay
• Update contact details (mobile numbers, email addresses, home address) at the office
• To advise office of any illness for your child