Mathletics Summer Challenge!

By l hearn20th June 2018

Next week there is a Mathletics Summer Challenge, where we compete against other schools to get the most Mathletics points! The competition runs from 25th June – 1st July 2018.

Please encourage your children to get logged on and complete lots of activities on there so that they can gain points for our school (and practise lots of concepts that they’ve learnt this year in school)! We would love to get as many points as possible and get as high up on the schools leader board as we can!

Good luck everyone!

SKIP 2B FIT at Brooklands Farm

By admin9th March 2018

Wow! What an amazing and inspirational couple of days working in partnership with SKIP 2B FIT.

All children in our school showed amazing resilience and growth mindset towards improving their own personal bests. We all really enjoyed the motivational competitions between staff and children. Mr Rickett and Mathias are currently our skipping champions – we are looking forward to see if anyone can beat their scores in the future.

 

Bikeability

By l hearn7th February 2018

It has been an intense 3 days of cycling in very low temperatures but everyone tried amazingly hard, were very resilient and all received a certificate for their effort! It has been lovely to see how much everyone can progress over 3 sessions and they had great instructors to support them. Some children managed to pass their Level 2 as well!

Well done to everyone who took part!

Here is a photo of a few of the children, who were really excited to get their certificates!

 

 

Year 5 Ignite Trip – Harry Potter Studios

By admin8th January 2018

In year five last week we had the amazing, magical experience of visiting the Harry Potter Studio Tours.

We got to see so many incredible things, such as: the props, costumes and masks, the rooms and buildings, green screen effects, models, paintings and designs and so much more.

This will really help us in our project learning this term.

Here are some photos of our day.

 

pics trip HP studio

Cross Country

By l hearn14th November 2017

Thank you to everyone that came and supported our 24 runners on Saturday morning. It was such a fantastic sporting morning despite the rain and mud!! The children were amazing and represented Brooklands with true style and confidence.  As individuals and as teams they did amazingly, with one of our Year 6 girls finishing 2nd out of around 150!!

Thank you again to everyone that helped and supported, especially our marshals!

Year 5 homework

By e downey15th September 2017

Year 5 have had a great week settling in to their new classes for maths and reading/grammar, it has been wonderful to see high learning zones and open mindsets.

 

Please find attached the year 5 homework for this week. The homework is due in for Thursday next week.

 

Have a great weekend!

Miss Downey, Mrs Forbes, Miss Hearn and Mr Kerin

Year 5 team

Year 5 Individual Homework

Due in Thursday 21st September

 

Project/Spelling

This week in project we have been connecting our knowledge of the Titanic to our writing in literacy. We are practising our writing skills and applying these to an information text about the Titanic (thank you for working so hard on finding facts for last week’s homework – they have been really useful!). Please can you practise these speed words for your homework this week.

 

Success Criteria

  • Use your different methods to practise the spellings
  • Remember which words are proper nouns and need capital letters

 

unsinkable Titanic magnificent
disappear iceberg additionally
although crew capacity
cruise facilities extraordinary

 

Reading

We have been looking at expression in reading over the past two weeks and how we can make our reading sound more exciting. Please watch the clip of Michael Rosen reading his famous ‘chocolate cake’ poem with expression. Your task is to use his technique to practise reading a part of the same poem out loud to someone else using your expression skills you have been working on.

 

Success Criteria

  • Volume
  • Tone
  • Facial expression
  • Small actions
  • Accents

 

                                                            https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7BxQLITdOO

 

Chocolate Cake – Poem by Michael Rosen

I love chocolate cake.

And when I was a boy

I loved it even more.

 

Sometimes we used to have it for tea

and Mum used to say,

‘If there’s any left over

you can have it to take to school

tomorrow to have at playtime.’

And the next day I would take it to school

wrapped up in tin foil

open it up at playtime

and sit in the corner of the playground

eating it,

you know how the icing on top

is all shiny and it cracks as you

bite into it,

and there’s that other kind of icing in

the middle

and it sticks to your hands and you

can lick your fingers

and lick your lips

oh it’s lovely.

Yeah.

 

Mathletics

 

Please log on to your Mathletics account and complete the activity that has been set for you.

Year 5 Titanic Ignite

By l hearn7th September 2017

On Wednesday Year 5 had our Titanic Ignite day. We all dressed up as first, second and third class passengers and were given a real person from Titanic so that we had a character to act as throughout the day. We really enjoyed having a Titanic style dinner in the afternoon with different food and entertainment depending on our class. While we were having our dinner, there was a sudden unexpected announcement that we had crashed into an iceberg!! We tried to evacuate quickly but found different obstacles in our way depending on our class and our gender! Luckily we all survived the iceberg crash but it helped us imagine how shocking and scary it would have been if we had been on the actual Titanic.

 

Sports Day and Transition Teas

By Miss Rebecca Snowdon26th June 2017

Hello Year 5D Parents and Carers,

Looking forward to seeing you all for Sports Day tomorrow morning, 9:30am on Countess Way! Please remember that the children will need to wear their sports/PE kits with their Sports Day colour top. Sun hats and water bottles are a must!

Also, let me take this opportunity to remind you that you will need to sign up for a time slot for your Transition Tea on Monday 3rd July. Sign up is via the Schoolinterview website, just like parent’s evening. There are three slots to choose from: 4-4:30, 4:30-5 and 5-5:30. Use this code fqy2t.

See you tomorrow

Rebecca Snowdon