Welcome to Year 5/6

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Welcome to Year 5/6

• Ms Baker
• Mrs Williams/Mrs Suter
• Mr Lydon Mrs Beasley

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Positive
Active Learners

• Creative

Responsible
Independent
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Responsible and independent

• Monitors / buddies / Thursday lunches
• Input to the planning process
• Decision making
• Investigations
• Self evaluation
• Homework

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Homework

• Reading-booklists Bronze, Silver, Gold,
  Platinum
• Spelling-website
• Learning Log spelling or topic
• Maths
• Homework club-Thursday
• School website links

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Creative Curriculum- Topic based learning
Who were the Ancient Greeks?
Musical Greeks -singing songs from Heroes of
Troy

• Literacy
• The art of story writing The Odyssey

Internet safety
PE Mini Olympiad

• Art
• how images tell a story creating a textile wall
• hanging based on a Greek story

What did the Greeks ever do for us?
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Ancient Greece Holiday Homework

• Use the websites and/or books to help you
  research an ancient Greek god/goddess or a famous
  Greek.
• Greek god/goddess
• Write down information about your chosen
  god/goddess.
• You may want to write about the following
• What are they the god/goddess of?
• Do they have any special powers/weapons?
• Who are they related to?
• Any interesting stories relating to them.
• Famous Greek
• Some ideas are
• Socrates
• Archimedes
• Aristotle
• Hippocrates
• or any other famous ancient Greek
• Write about who they were and why they are still
  famous today.

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Other

• Indoor PE kits pumps, shorts, white top
• Outdoor PE kits trainers, jogging bottoms, sweat
  top
• Drawstring bag to keep kit in
• Art apron (named)
• Book bag
• Equipment storage.

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Equipment

• Blue handwriting pen (not biros)
• Pencil
• 30cm ruler
• Rubber
• Small pencil case (has to fit in a tray)
• Highlighters
• Pencil sharpener
• Board wiper
• Whiteboard pen

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INDEPENDENCEMy Mum didnt..

• Responsibility for
• Having the correct equipment at the correct time.
• Making time for, doing and handing in homework.
• Listening, thinking learning.
• Making good choices.
• Presentation of work.