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Dosbarth Miss Griffiths

Dear Parent/Carer,

January 2025

Welcome back to the start of a new term at Danygraig! We hope you have had a wonderful Christmas break and are ready for an exciting new term! Please find below details of the work that your child’s class will be doing during this term. We have also suggested ways in which you can help your child at home. If you have any queries or questions, please do not hesitate to get in contact with your child’s class teacher.

Thank you for your continued support,

Mr D. Field, Miss. R. Griffiths, Mr A. Byrne,

      Class: Year 5/6G                                                                                           Term: Spring Term – 2025

Main areas of study:

Our topic this term is ‘Lights, Camera, ACTION!’. The children will have opportunities to decide on their learning through pupil lead questioning. They could be working on topics in relation to our Lights, Camera, ACTION! topic such as:

  • Understand the history of filmmaking, cinematography and other types of media.
  • Investigate how movies and animations are created
  • Become inspired by local actors and actresses
  • Create our own short animations and films using these learnt techniques.

Homework will be given to the children every Wednesday starting: Wednesday 15th of January to be completed online through their Hwb accounts or in their homework books by the following Wednesday. Homework will be alternate weeks of literacy and maths. Please see your child’s class teacher if you have any problems accessing the work.

Please ensure your child’s homework book is kept safe (ie: plastic folder) and handed in on time.

In Maths we will be looking at: number and place value, written addition and subtraction, problem solving, reasoning and algebra, mental addition and subtraction, decimals, percentages and their equivalence to fractions, problem solving, reasoning and algebra, mental multiplication and division, measurement, mental multiplication and division, fractions, ratio and proportion, geometry, statistics, properties of shapes, worded problem solving and reasoning.

PE lessons this term will be Swimming every Wednesday. Please can the children bring in swimming costume, towel and goggles (if needed). Pupils must not wear their swimming costumes to school.

Dojo messages and information will continue this year in the class groups. Letters will be sent for those who have not joined yet for you to join our class community. Please follow the instructions to download and join our class community through the app. This is a simple and effective way of getting in touch, receiving information and seeing how your son/daughter is getting on through dojo points and posted videos.

Ways in which you can help at home:
  • Please listen to your child reading at home every night (your child will have reading book and new reading record diary for you to make comments soon).
  • Visit the local library to choose books relevant to topics being studied at school.
  • Discuss and talk through your child’s homework helping them with strategies and methods to solve it independently.
  • Talk to your child about the range of geographical features in their locality & globally.
  • Help your children by listening to them read, practice their times tables through TT Rockstars and help them to problem solve.

 

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