Toucan
Welcome to Toucan Class 2016-2017!
Teacher : Ms Mander
Teaching Assistant : Ms Sood
Things to remember :
PE every Wednesday - Please make sure labelled PE kits are in school
Homework given out every Friday, to be submitted by the following Wednesday
(Bug Club and Mathletics are always available)
Swimming every Friday - Finished for the current year
Spelling test every Friday
Year 5 Pocket Plans - Summer 2017
Literacy
Text of the term :The Tale of Mighty Beowulf (Epic Poem)
Michael Morpurgo's version of the Anglo-Saxon poem 'Beowulf'. Beowulf is the longest epic poem in Old English. It tells the story of a struggle between the hero, Beowulf and a bloodthirsty monster called Grendel. Epic Poetry is a lengthy narrative poem, ordinarily concerning a serious subject containing details of heroic deeds and events significant to a culture or nation.[
All our work in Literacy, example: Writing Play Scripts, recounts, diary entries, Persuasive writing etc, is based on the text of the term.
Suggested reading : Children's version of Odyssey by Homer (Greek mythology), other books by Michael Morpurgo -
Science
IPC