St Philip Howard Class: 2024 -2025
The Year 5 Team (St Philip Howard's Class) are Mrs Gilbert, Miss Rance and Miss Johnson
Welcome to St Philip Howard's Class page.
Moon's Movement
07.10.2024
We learnt about the moon phases in science and how the movement of the moon, Earth and the sun's light can create the appearance of different shapes of the moon. We then showed and explained the phases using a yummy treat!
Jewish New Year
30.09.2024
This week, we celebrated the Jewish New Year by trying the delicious combination of apple and honey together. We loved it!
Later in the week, we explored further into our book: the viewer. We learnt about how Tristan is plagued with darkness ever since he brought a box back from the dump, which contained a bronze viewer. Take a look at our interpretation of fear and darkness.
Grandparent's week
23.09.2024
We created our own stamps in art this week and later...
Used these stamps with our grandparent's and carers to generate our own prints relating to space!
After this, we created plates and bunting to be used in our cake sake for MacMillan the charity.
The Viewer
16.09.2024
What a week!
We started our new power of reading book this week, called 'The Viewer'. We learnt about our main character, Tristan, and the strange viewer he finds. It reveals strange pictures from the past, which we then tried to recreate in our own version of the viewer disks.
Greece Lightning!
03.09.2024
This week, year five launched their topic of Greece Lightning!
We learnt about different aspects of Greek culture, sampled Greek food and learnt about their history and beliefs, whilst listening to traditional Greek music. Using this knowledge, we created amazing Greek decorative plates, which look fantastic!
Learning Overview
PE
This half term, Year 5's PE days will be on Tuesdays and Wednesdays.
Please make sure your child has a full PE kit in school at all times - black shorts, a green St Joseph's t-shirt and trainers or plimsolls.
Year 5 children will also be doing the 'daily mile' on the other three days.
Reading
Please encourage your child to read as often as possible (ideally at least three times a week.) This can be by themselves, to a family member or to a sibling - and children, please remember to record it in the reading record books. These will be checked on a Monday.
Spellings
A paper copy of the spelling list for the first term will be sent home with your child. Children will be tested on a Wednesday each week. Spelling frame is an excellent website to support your child with spelling. Click HERE for a link to it.
Homework
Please click HERE to find out what our homework expectations are. Your child will receive homework of times tables and spellings. Times tables will be distributed and returned on Mondays. Spellings will be tested and distributed on Wednesday.
Please make sure your child attends school in the correct school uniform. This includes plain black shoes or trainers. They also must be wearing a tie.
Thank you parents and carers!
We really do appreciate your support.
A warm welcome to a new school year
Dear children, parents and carers,
I am thrilled to be able to welcome you all back and am very excited to begin a new academic year together as the year five St. Philip Howard's class. I feel honoured to be your child's teacher this year and please be assured that I will do my very best to ensure they are safe and happy at all times. I look forward to seeing them flourish and getting to know them all. If you have any questions about your child's learning, please do not hesitate to catch me before or after school. Please check this web page regularly for updates from inside the classroom!
I look forward to meeting you all and to a great year ahead!
Mrs Gilbert