Welcome to Year 5 - Opal Class
Staff
Mrs V Leach
Opal
BA (Hons) PGCE
Hi my name is Mrs Leach and I am the current year 5 teacher in Opal. As well as being a class teacher I am also the school lead on creative arts. One of my big passions is for the creative arts so I ensure this is delivered across the whole school
Miss C Newell
Opal
PE Day & PE Kit
PE will take place on Wednesday.
Please ensure you child comes to school in their PE Kit on that day.
What's New
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Snack Money
Tuck Shop is available after school
on Wednesday and Friday.
Daily healthy snack is available to purchase every day at break time. Snack can be purchased at morning break. The maximum amount snack will cost is £3 a week. Children are welcome to bring their own snack from home which is less than 110 calories.
Reading Books
Reading Books will usually be changed Wednesday and Friday. Please read with your child every night and sign their reading record.
Knowledge Organiser
You have been given a Knowledge Organiser and Homework Grid with some tasks relating to our topic.
Each week we will have a focus that has been covered on the Knowledge Organiser.
Homework
Children will get up to 15 spellings per week to learn at home.
Women and the war homework activities grid
Recent Terms Archive
WELCOME TO OPAL
Overview
Autumn 1 - Women in the War
This half term we will be learning all about the roles of women during World War 2. Each week we will discover and learn about a different job that women played a pivotal role in ranging from secret agents to bomb manufacturing and ammunition specialists.
As we learn about all of this historical information, we will create fiction stories based on the true life actions of Christine Granville and write job descriptions involving lots of descriptive writing and engaging sentence structures to make great progress in our writing.
Science – Forces
RE – Sikhism
CLASP – Group a - 3D Printing/Computing
Group b - Textile Art
Jigsaw- Being me in my world
Our Jigsaw topic this term is ‘Being me in my world’ were we will be learning about the what makes us unique.
Year 5
Week 1. Help others to feel welcome
Week 2. Try to make our school community a better place
Week 3. Think about everyone’s right to learn
Week 4. Care about other people’s feelings
Week 5. Work well with others
Week 6. Choose to follow the Learning Charter
Homework:
Spelling and maths homework will be given out on a Friday and should be returned the following Thursday. If a child’s homework is not handed in during morning registration then they will complete missing homework in their lunchtime after they have eaten their lunch.
Special Events in Opal Class
Back to school - Thursday 5th September
Land Army workshop - Monday 24th September
Theatre trip - TBC
Check out what’s been happening in Opal class so far this year.
Autumn 1 -
Fun and laughter as we find out how hard it was being in the Land Army during WW2- Look at our gallery photos to see how the children fared with harvesting, cow milking and rat catching.
Check out the images from our Nursing skills session where the children tried their hand at suturing wounds using needle and thread and bandaging injuries for the walking wounded. We had lots of fun learning all about the jobs typically done if you were part of a nursing team.
Gallery
Nursing training day - Look at our suturing and bandaging skills.
Spellings
Your children will be in groups for Read Write Inc according to the sounds they know.
Here are some useful links for phonics games that can be completed on a laptop or tablet.
https://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/Phase2Menu.htm
For more information, please click here.
Websites to support your child in their learning:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zwqqm39/articles/z6hwqfr
https://www.natgeokids.com/uk/discover/history/general-history/world-war-two/
More Information
If you would like any more information about upcoming dates, events or whole school news then just click here.
