1. This week’s learning 

Contrary to winding things down for the end of term, Year 5 have truly been winding things up! 5NM enjoyed their trip to the farm, despite the drizzly weather, and really made the most of the opportunities available to them during their visit to Slade Farm on Monday. In topic, the children have enjoyed a maths-themed week where they were able to use their digital skills (despite the challenges posed by the internet connection!) to create a bar graph showing World coal production in 2025. We also used a Venn diagram to help us understand how mining has evolved from the Past to the Present day.  

  

The PTA offered an opportunity to Year 5 to enter a competition with the chance to win a visit from the ice Hockey Team the Cardiff Devils. As predicted, our Year group were keen to take up the opportunity. The competition involved watching a CPR video and then sending the photos back to the PTA.  The children were enthusiastic to not only watch the video but also to try out their new skills on some nearby teddy bears! Da iawn pawb!

We also enjoyed Shwmae day yesterday and it was lovely to see the children taking part in the Welsh language themed activities and to hear them keen to speak our beautiful Welsh language. 

Thank you so much to those of you that could bring donations in for our food bank collection, these donations really do make a difference to families in need and we are incredibly grateful for them.  During our Harvest assembly, the children will be able to see the items collected and hear about the impact these donations will make. 

In Talk for Write, the children have had a chance to use all the ‘literacy tools’ they have been learning about over the last six weeks in order to take part in a ‘shared write’.  As a whole class, the children have written their own versions of the story ‘Hansel and Gretal’ with very creative results. In Mathematics, we rounded off our work on Place Value with an investigation and have moved on to a recap on how to use the column method of addition to solve problems.  

2. Important information for next week 

•  On Monday 19th October 5CH will be going on their trip to Slade Farm to begin our Outdoor Literacy programme. Please ensure that consent is given on Parent Pay and that a grab bag has been ordered if required. Please can you ensure that your child has suitable footwear (wellies preferably) and a waterproof coat for the trip. 

• PE will be on Wednesdays, please ensure that the children come to school in their PE kit on this day, including appropriate footwear 

  

3. How you can help at home 

Next Wednesday (weather permitting!) we will be holding a Year 5 netball tournament in the afternoon to give the children the opportunity to flex the Netball skills they have been learning with Mrs Cho during PE. In order to help prepare them from the tournament, you could watch a netball match (links to Wales netball games are here) or even have a look at the rule book together https://walesnetball.com/2024-rules-of-netball-update/ . This is nothing for the children to worry about, just a fun tournament where children can show off the skills they have acquired over the last few weeks. 

As always, please ensure that the children are reading when at home, ideally all children should be reading for enjoyment for a minimum of 20 minutes per day. 

Please continue with times tables and their division equivalents  

Continue to practise quick fire subtraction and addition mental maths with your children for example, asking at random What’s 10-2? What’s 7+3?   

Useful home learning websites: 

• Top Marks, Hit the button  

• BBC Bitesize