Summer Term Distance Learning for Kangaroos (Year 5)

Please scroll below to access your Summer 2 distance learning resources to complete in your Distance Learning Journal.

As during the Spring term and Summer 1, I will be uploading daily challenges for you to complete Monday-Friday, alongside practising your times tables on Times Table Rockstars, spellings on Spelling Shed and lots of reading. Remember to look in your distance learning booklet for extra tasks and activities to do. 

To ensure the Summer 2 daily challenges are clear and easy to find, I have moved the Spring term and Summer 1 challenges and pictures further down the page, but please continue to access them if you missed any days that you would like to catch up on.

If you are a parent or carer of a child in Kangaroos and have any questions about your child's distance learning, please email the class email address:

kangaroos@eye.peterborough.sch.uk

I am always happy to help.

Take care and stay safe!

Miss Reed

Summer Term: Daily Challenges

Week 8 of Summer 2

Hi Kangaroos! 

Here we are... the final few days of Year 5. What a year we have had! It was great to see lots of your smiley faces in our zoom transition meetings last week.

There are two days left until the end of term. Below are your final tasks to complete. There are also some resources for over the summer holidays too. Don't forget to take part in Bookman's summer reading challenge! There is also a painted pebble activity for our special memory path.

I have uploaded a very special Collective Worship service for you all from St Matthew's Church. Take a look below!

Although our time has been cut short this year, I am so proud of all the hard work you have done - both in school and at home. I have loved the learning journey we have been on together. Not only this year, but in Year 3 together too! They say, as a teacher, your first class always has a special place in your heart - and you all definitely have a special place in mine- even more so as I was lucky enough to teach you in Year 3 as well. My favourite things this year have been teaching you about Space, our trips to Peterborough Cathedral and the National Civil War Centre and reading the Inventions of Hugo Cabret with you all - we really loved that book!

 I can't wait to see what else you go on to achieve in Year 6 and beyond. Continue to be the superstars that you are! 

Have a fantastic summer and stay safe. I look forward to seeing you all on the playground in September for a big catch up!

Miss Reed xx

Music learning

24^th June 2020

The children in the Year 5 key worker bubble completed today's music task together! Obviously it had to be football themed as lots of us are football crazy! We hope you like it 

To the tune of ‘Watermelon Sugar’ by Harry Styles

Tastes like crowds cheering at Weston Holmes,

And it sounds just like Posh,

I want more goals and that winning feeling,

It’s so wonderful and fun.

Chanting in, chanting out,

I don’t know if I could ever go without,

I’m just cheering out loud,

I don’t know if I could ever go without,

C’mon ‘boro high

C’mon ‘boro high

C’mon ‘boro high

C’mon ‘boro high

C’mon Peterborough!

Additional Distance Learning Activities

The Spinney

I wonder whether you can draw some pictures or write a note for the residents at The Spinney?  The residents love receiving things from you.

Please send your drawings/notes to:
84, Peterborough Road Eye Peterborough PE6 7YB
or email spinneypenpals@outlook.com

27/4/20 - Hi Kangaroos!

Welcome to another week of distance learning. I hope you had a lovely weekend and are ready to work just as hard as you did last week, this week. This week I am at school to look after the key worker children, so I won't be as quick at getting back to you on emails as I normally am when I am working from home. Please bare with me, I will aim to reply to you as soon as I can.

Have a great week.

Miss Reed :)

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Spring Term Distance Learning for Kangaroos (Year 5)

28/2/20 - During todays Geography lesson, we undertook some fieldwork by exploring Eye. During this time we walked around the village looking out for pieces of rubbish, which we stuck to pieces of cardboard, helping to clean up our community and to see the impact humans are having on the planet.

We also looked at how the council are able to help Eye community by providing a range of bins, helping to recycle the local waste.

Another important issue we explored was the transport that travelled through Eye. We looked at how many moving cars travelled through the village, compared to the amount of buses, bicycles, motorbikes and members of the community who walked through the village.

Below are some photos of Kangaroos and Meerkats exploring Eye community.

8/11/19 - Today we learnt about what Parliament is. Parliament is where they make and change laws and debate important issues.

As part of our learning, we played a special version of the board game ‘Monopoly’ which focused on democracy. It made us think about and discuss issues in the world we live in. We know that we have the right to have an opinion about different things and for our voices to be heard and that this is what living in a democracy is all about- the right to have an opinion and for it to be heard.

Curriculum Bulletin Autumn 2 

In English. we will be looking at 'The Inventions of Hugo Cabret' as our focus text and writing newspaper reports. We will then be moving on to comparing the film with the book.

In Maths, we will be looking at multiplication and division this half term. 

In Science, we will be learning about forces.

In Geography, we will be learning all about mountains.

In DT we will be making our own birdhouses in our co-op groups.

The Christmas countdown is on! 

Please see the curriculum letter for more information.

Miss Reed

1/1/10/19

We were very lucky today to experience a poetry day. Neal Zetter, a children’s poet with many published books, came to visit. We learnt one of Neal’s poems called ‘Angry Shopping Trolley’ and performed it in the school’s Poetry Slam at the end of the day after lots of rehearsing. Our performance was so brilliant that we won the Poetry Slam (alongside Chimps class with their performance of Neil’s poem ‘Bubbles’). Our prize was a copy of Neal’s latest poetry book about superheroes! Scan the QR code below to watch a video of our performance!

13/9/19 - Modern Slavery

Today, we participated in a workshop all about Modern Slavery led by Helen and Joe from ‘Just Enough UK’. They helped us to think about what modern day slavery looks like through role play – all of which we joined in with.

We learnt that slavery is where one person has absolute power over another and controls their life, liberty and fortune.

We were shocked to hear that there are an estimated 40-45 million slaves in the world today. A staggering £150,000,000,000 is made through slavery every year.

Helen and Joe taught us an acronym to help us remember the 5 signs of modern day slavery:

S – Suspicious person guarding them

L – Local language is a struggle

A – Any gender, any age, any nationality

V – Valid travel documents

E – Emotional and abused

5/9/19

Welcome to Kangaroos!

I am feeling very lucky and extremely excited to be teaching Kangaroos this year. It doesn’t seem 5 minutes ago since we were in Year 3 together… I just know we are going to have another fantastic year together already! 

Autumn 1 learning

We have lots of exciting learning coming up this half term. Here’s a little insight in to what we will be learning about…

Maths: We will start by learning about numbers to 1,000,000.

English: We will be writing non-chronological reports about mythical beetles (inspired by the most wonderful book: Beetle Boy by M. G. Leonard).

Science: We will be learning about Earth and Space.

History: We’ll be going back in History and learning about the Tudors. In particular, we will be thinking about who the most powerful Tudor monarch was and why there was so much religious tension during the Tudor reign. 

RE: The focus question that we’ll be studying is ‘What does it mean if God is holy and loving?’

Art: We will be focusing on our drawing techniques – sketching in particular to begin with!

Design and technology: Our focus will be ‘Structures’ and you will be working throughout the Autumn term to create a bird house with you co-op group.

Music: Woaaaah! Livin’ on a prayer! We’ll be rockin’ as our focus is Rock music!

French: As this is a new language we will be learning, we’ll begin the term by learning how to greet one another, 5 colours and numbers 0-10 in French.

PE: We will be swimming during Autumn 1 during our PE lessons. More information about this is below.

C4L: Our focus is ‘Families and Communities’. We will learn about Human Rights and democracy within this.

Useful information

Support in class

Mrs. Selves is our teaching assistant.

Mrs. Heighton (HLTA) is working with children across both Year 5 classes.

Swimming

PE is on a Friday. Please ensure bags and kits are clearly named. During Autumn 1 we will be swimming on a Friday afternoon. All children will need the following: Swimwear, swimming hat, towel. Please ensure earrings are taken out at home (if they are worn at school it is the children’s responsibility to take them out) and all long hair should be tied up to go swimming please. If your child wishes to wear goggles, please send a note in to me. Children will not be allowed to wear goggles unless they have a note from a parent.

Reading at home

Now children are in UKS2, they will no longer have a reading record. We still expect the children to be reading every single day and the expectation is that during a half term, each child reads at least 5 books so please do encourage this at home. At school, children will write in our class ‘Book Tracker’ each time they read a whole book and state whether they enjoyed the book or not. It will be monitored by the Year 5 team regularly to ensure children are reading regularly at home. If your child reads 5 books in a half term they will get a special certificate in assembly. If they read more than 5 books in a half term, they will be awarded a ‘Superstar Raffle Ticket’ which will be entered into a drawer where they have the opportunity to win some special reading goodies!

Water bottles

Please remember water bottles every day as our classroom does get very warm. Please make sure the water bottle is clearly named and is only filled with water or squash only. Thank you.

Homework

Homework will be set weekly. Please ensure your child is completing their homework.

Start & end of the school day

Children will be lining up in the morning outside Kangaroos door and will be going in to the classroom to complete their morning activity at 8.50am. They will be released from the same place at the end of the day.

Please feel free to speak to me for any further information.

Miss Reed

P.S. Please keep checking our class pages for updates and snapshots of our learning throughout the year!