Welcome to the
Swans and Kestrels

Year 5 Teachers - Miss Khalid, Mrs Stubbs, Mrs Laidlaw

Support Staff - Mrs Mault, Miss Finnemore & Mrs Begum

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Learning at Home
We expect all children to read their reading book at home at least three times a week to support their learning. Children should also access their 'TT Rockstars' for at least 15 minutes three times a week.  

Each year group will also have six 'Teach Your Parent' activities per term linked to their wider curriculum learning. These are to enrich your child's wider knowledge and support you with further learning at home and are optional to complete.
Click here to see your child's Home Learning
 

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Click here for your child's PE days
Click here to see your child's school trips for the year

We have enjoyed some fantastic educational visits this term, in addition to exciting activities in school!

In school, we have supported Anti-bullying Week by wearing odd socks to school, and completed activities related to recognising our emotions and what to do when we feel uncomfortable. Taking part in Anti-bullying Week has encouraged us to promote kindness and empathy, building on our Anti-bullying culture within our school.

We won the weekly Attendance Award in October, and celebrated with a team games reward, and the Behaviour Award in November where we invited the pupils to become the teachers! We had some fantastic ideas for lesson plans, and thoroughly enjoyed being taught how to complete ‘Minecraft selfies’ and how to shade like an artist! We thoroughly enjoyed this and are eager to win both the Attendance and Behaviour Award again.

In November, we invited parents to join us for a Guided Reading lesson for our ‘Watch me learn’ session. We really enjoyed sharing our learning for our class book, ‘Hidden Figures’ as this story has enabled us to understand history, highlighting the importance of Maths, Science and technology in space exploration. Thank you to everyone who attended, we hope you enjoyed reading with us.

We were lucky to visit the National Space Centre and Planetarium in Leicester, to support our learning in Science. It was definitely worth the long coach ride, as we got to climb the rocket tower, experience life on the International Space Station, and found out all about the life of an astronaut. We also had the opportunity to explore the themed galleries, packed with engaging hands-on exhibits, rockets and satellites!

We have also visited the Dudson Museum to find out about working in a Pottery during the Industrial Revolution, climbed up inside a bottle kiln, and explored the different styles of pottery produced in the factory. We particularly enjoyed finding out about the double-spouted teapot, invented to pour double the amount of cups of tea for troops during the war!