Happy half term everyone!

We've worked super hard this half term. Well done, everyone. We're proud of you. Over half term spend time relaxing, enjoying yourselves and enjoy spending time with you families. Maybe you could go on a walk to spot signs of spring, maybe you could try something new like learning a language or cooking something new in the kitchen or perhaps get cosy with a new book.

As well as this, we would like you to keep using TTRS to polish your times tables knowledge. Practising little and often allows you to really embed your times tables knowledge, which will make you more confident when using your times tables in maths - and of course more confident for our maths challenge. Practising for 10-15 minutes a day would be our suggested time - beginning with Garage before moving onto a different TTRS game.

Please read daily and record your reading in your reading journal. A minimum of 20 minutes daily would be our recommendation. Discussing the book with your family: likes, dislikes, any patterns and connections between this book and another text and any questions you have as a reader. If there are any words that are unfamiliar to you, please discuss them with your adults - or magpie them in a notebook for us to discuss in school.   

Attached below, you will find some resources to support your child's learning at home. They detail our KIRFs and elements of our curriculum that you may wish to look at with your child as discussed at the start of the year and at parents evening.

For your homework this week, we would like you to practise your skills of writing recounts by writing a recount about part of your half term holidays. You could include

• specific names and events to make it authentic, 
• move the action on by using adverbials of time,
• hook the reader with a catchy opening sentence,
• consider your audience (informal and chatty and revealing your feelings to the diary)
• look ahead to what might happen next (the impact of this event for the future)

Happy writing!

The Year 5 Team