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Brookfest is 10th June! Your home learning over half term is:

• Make sure your family knows about Brookfest and ask them to come!
• Ask your parent to sign and return a slip if they can help on the year five coconut shy at some point during the day of Brookfest
• Keep practising your songs:
  • We Are Giants – Take That
  • The Greatest – Sia
  • Titanium – David Guetta (stop after 2nd chorus, roughly 2:45)

As no other tasks are being set, it is the expectation that these tasks are completed by everybody. If your families are not able to help/ come to Brookfest, they still need to return the letter. Your letter is being sent home with you on Friday.

Have a fun and musical half term!

This week in 5D, we have begun our recount writing learning journey, following our trip to the Warner Brothers Studio Tour (photos coming soon!).

As a class, we created a detailed list of criteria required for each of the three components of a recount: introduction, main body and conclusion; and paired these criteria with successful examples from some supplementary literature.

This week for home learning, we would like to you to collect different types of recounts to bring to school. Throughout the week, beginning on Monday, we will be comparing these recount types to our recount features criteria and selecting successful examples to add to our supplementary literature bank.  These will be very helpful to us, when we are writing.

Types of recounts to look for:

• a write-up of a trip or activity
• an account of something that happened in history
• a newspaper article about something that happened
• a letter to tell someone about an event
• a diary or a blog
• an encyclopedia entry
•  a biography or autobiography
• an account of a science experiment

We would like recount types to start arriving in school on Monday but are happy for them to continue arriving until Wednesday.  It is important that everyone brings at least one as we will be using them all week. Please try to be creative with the examples that you bring to school. We would like to have a broad and varied sample of supplementary literature.

Please also remember that daily reading and using Mathletics at least three times a week is an expectation of year 5.

Enjoy your weekend.

Miss Snowdon and Miss Sheppard

On Tuesday 16th May, we are going to the Warner Brothers Studio tour! Hooray!

Please arrive to school at normal time, in uniform and with a packed lunch (named).

During the trip, we’ll be learning about how the film makers created the ‘magic’ that we see on screen.  We would like you to do some self study into mechanisms and moving parts. The aim is for you to familiarise yourself with these, how they work, how they are assembled and key words. You will be spotting as many of these mechanisms as possible during the day of the trip and will also connect this to making your own miniature moving models as part of your project outcome.

Use the link below to help

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0ByP-dD4eI-7ATWZZQjljTGE1M1k/view?usp=sharing

This week we have started to learn our text map for ‘The Tale of the Three Brothers’ as part of our Harry Potter project. We will be using the style of the story to write our own traditional tales.

For home learning, please use the text map and copy of the story provided to continue learning the text map.  Remember, you need to learn the story, use an expressive, storytelling voice; and come up with memorable actions.

Please also complete the practise tasks provided to help you to learn your traditional tales speed words.  We learn ‘speed words’ that are important examples of vocabulary for our chosen text type so that we can use them easily and accurately in our writing.

It is bank holiday Monday on 1st May.  So please learn your text map and speed words for Tuesday 2nd May.  We will need these for our lesson on Tuesday so it is very important that you have learned as much as you can.

Have a lovely bank holiday weekend,

Miss Snowdon and Miss Sheppard

This week we have been writing formal letters of application to be a highwayman, in response to the Highwayman poem.  These letters were written to be both formal and persuasive.

In preparation for our new Harry Potter project next week, please write a new formal letter of application.  You are writing to apply for the role of ‘head boy’ or ‘head girl’ of your Hogwarts house (to be given to you on Monday). These letters need to be persuasive and formal.

Job description – a head boy/ head girl…

• is responsible and reliable
• is honest and trustworthy
• is fair and selfless
• is a role model for others
• always listen to others and value everyone’s voice

In Harry Potter, the head boy and girl are there to support Professor Dumbledore and the other teachers of Hogwarts, ensuring that school rules are followed and values are upheld.  They are the assistants to the teachers.  It is a very responsible role.

Use the job description above and the writing ladder provided to help you write your letters.

This task is required for Monday. For this reason, it is the only task you are being set this week.

Enjoy your weekend.

Miss Snowdon and Miss Shepard.

letter of applicationYr5MarkingLadder pdf