1. This week’s learning 

Well, we can’t believe we have reached the end of our first half term in Year 5. 

5CH enjoyed their trip to Slade Farm and enjoyed harvesting a range of vegetables as well as planting willow. Their behaviour was excellent and they were fantastic representatives of Romilly Primary School. Da iawn 5CH! In topic, the children were able to engage their artistic and creative sides as we explored different creative techniques in order to sketch a picture of a pit pony. Year 5 also enjoyed taking part in a range of Autumnal activities to round off the half term. 

Sadly, we had to postpone our netball tournament as Mrs Cho was called upon to deliver “Playground Pals” training alongside the organisation, “Bullies Out”. Although we were disappointed to postpone the tournament, we are considering this as an opportunity to use the extra time to hold a mini tournament in our classes!  

In Talk for Write, we completed our Shared Writing activities and gave the children the opportunity to plan and write their own versions of the story ‘Hansel and Gretal’. In Mathematics, we have enjoyed a week of revising how to use the column method for both addition and subtraction, even progressing on to exchanging. Da iawn Year 5!  

  Important information for next week 

•  Next week will be half term, we will return to school on Monday 2nd November. 

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

  How you can help at home 

We will now hold our netball tournament after half term. 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/ . 

In the next half term we will be learning about the Aberfan disaster, we feel this is an important part of Welsh history and will be delivered in an age appropriate way. Earlier this week, saw the 60th anniversary of the disaster, if you would like to talk to your children about this sensitive subject then there is a wealth of online resources on the Newsround and BBC website. 

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