Welcome to Osprey Class
Hopefully you can find all the information you need regarding Osprey Class. At the bottom of the page you will find a files list with copies of letters and homework. If you have any other information, please contact osprey@stg.fa1.uk
Teaching Staff: Miss Walker and Miss Dixon
We have a fabulous visit to Jodrell Bank - we explored all of the experiments and learnt a lot about space.
Homework
Here are pictures from our Ancient Greek Olympic Day. We took part in the Stadion Race (running), the Javelin, the Discus and the long jump.
Class Timetable
Swimming will be on Mondays for those who continue after the Easter Holidays.
PE will be on Mondays and Fridays.
Reading Expectations
Home Readers
In Y5, children are expected to read four time a week for at least 30 minutes. They are encouraged to read a range of reading material including their favourite book, current reading books from home as well as library books from school, colour banded books from the school's reading scheme, comics and newspapers.
Their reading record must be signed by an adult four times a week. For every 10 signatures, a raffle ticket will be issued for a chance to win our Wonderful Reading Hampers.
Reading records are checked every Monday.
Children will also be able to supplement their reading through TOP TEN READS and the WONDROUS BOOK CLUB!
Our current English text
This half term we are learning about the importance of the rainforest in Geography.
The Great Kapok Tree captures beautifully the environmental and ethical choices facing a woodcutter in the Amazon Rainforest.
Writing outcomes: Narrative
Balanced Argument
Our Maths this half term
We will be covering:
Decimals and Fractions - equivalent fractions, adding and subtracting fractions, decimals up to 2 d.p, equivalent fractions and decimals (tenths and hundredths), thousandths as fractions, thousandths as decimals and ordering and comparing decimals.
Geography Learning Challenges
Why should the rainforest be important to us all?
LC1: Where are the world's rainforests?
LC2: What makes up a rainforest?
LC3: What are the main features of a rainforest?
LC4: What is the Congo rainforest like?
LC5: Why are rainforests being cut down?
LC6: Why does the Amazon Rainforest matter so much?
Science Learning Challenges
How different will you be when you are as old as your grandma?
LC1: What are the stages of the human life cycle?
LC2/3: What is gestation and does gender matter to the growth of babies??
LC4: Do boys and girls go through the same changes ?
LC5: What changes happen in old age?
LC6: Does an animal's gestation period determine its size?
RE Learning Challenges
Homework
Reading for 30 mins a day at least 4 times a week.
Weekly Spelling homework (please see below).
Project Homework.
Spelling
Each week ten spellings will be sent home for the children to practise for the spelling test the following week. They will be given out on a Friday and should be handed in the following Friday.
Each spelling homework has 2 activities to complete:
The first spelling activity is LOOK COVER WRITE CHECK.
The second activity is to write 10 sentences using the spellings. This will develop vocabulary and encourage correct application of the spellings learned.
These spellings will be available on the class website at the start of each half term.
For the w/e 7.11.23, there was no homework due to lack of internet. Sorry for any inconvenience caused.
Spelling Homework due in 1.3.24
Statutory Spellings 1
Spelling Homework due in 22.3.24
Statutory Spellings 4
Times Tables
By the end of year five the expectation is that all children will be confident with their times tables up to 12 x 12 including division facts. We will practise these at least three times a week during school. The children will need to use Times Tables Rock Stars at home for a least 10 minutes a day to practise these tables. All children have been provided with a login previously, but if you have lost it please don't hesitate to ask for a new one.
To access Times Tables Rock Stars please follow the link below and use the school postcode (OL5 OHT) to find our school.
Websites and Useful Links
Google Classroom Link
Please use the link below when accessing online learning.
https://smartlogin.realsmart.co.uk/smartlogin/launchpad
Our Curriculum Plan