Birds of the Morning Class
Our Year 5 children are taught in Birds of the Morning Class. The class teacher is Mrs Douglas. Our TAs are Mrs Amey in the mornings and Mr Randall in the afternoons. We will also have Mrs P in the class on a Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday to work with various groups of children. This term the children will be taught by Mrs Amey on a Wednesday afternoon.
Birds of the Morning are large white birds that fly from the sun and present fire-berries to a retired Star named Ramandu. You can read about Birds of the Morning in the book, 'The Voyage of the Dawn Treader'.
What the children say:
"We learn lots of things."
"We do challenging maths."
"The teachers and TAs are helpful."
"Everybody is nice and fun."
What we do in class:
In Birds of the Morning Class we cover all subjects within the National Curriculum. We extend and build on skills learnt in previous years as well as encouraging the development of learning skills such as resilience and reflection.
In maths this term we will continue to practise a range of key skills, both mental and written. Additionally we will learn about metric and imperial measurements and converting between them, and learn a little more about fractions. We will finish the term by studying co-ordinates and line graphs.
In literacy we will begin by writing letters and biographies from various fictional and historic people. We will then move onto reading imagery poetry and having a go at writing some ourselves. We will end the term by writing stories.
This term our topic is the Vikings. We will be learning about how the Vikings lived, their Gods and beliefs, their art and culture and much more! We also hope to visit the Wiltshire Museum to take part in wrokshops and look around their Viking gallery to learn more.
You can support your child in this topic by helping them with the optional research project which will be set in the first week of term.