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Year 5 Message

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4 years ago
Posted on 18th May 2020 by

Can you help to plan your family holiday?

Hi everyone 🙂

We have a little challenge for you all this week to do a little bit of problem solving and plan your own family holiday. We use maths all the time in our day to day lives and it is very important to learn the important skills of budgeting so you have everything you need.

So here is what you need to do.

Your challenge is to ‘book’ a holiday for 2 adults and 2 children to anywhere you wish to go during the summer holidays.

You will need to record the name of destination, name & cost of hotel/accommodation, flight cost & details (airline, times & flight numbers).

You must think about the following criteria and stay within your budget.

Your budget is £2500 for flights, accommodation & food.

Criteria:

  • 2 adults and 2 children (below the age of 12), so you will need a family room.
  • 7 nights
  • Transfers (getting to and from the airport to your accommodation).
  • Baggage (2 suitcases for your family)
  • Consider food and spending money in your budget too.

Below are some holiday companies websites to get you started.

Holiday companies

  • TUI
  • Thomas Cook
  • Jet2
  • On the beach
  • Travelsupermarket

Have lots of fun Year 5, we hope you enjoy ‘booking’ your own holiday! (Please don’t really book, this is a fun activity to give you some practise at real life budgeting!)

 

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4 years ago
Posted on 17th May 2020 by

Spelling shed!

Well done to Set 3, who are still on top! Set 1 are a close 2nd and set 2 are in 4th place. below Mr Hylton’s set. Olly is in 1st place, closely followed by his sister Jorgie in Year 3. Huge well done to Charlie H who is in 3rd place, a great achievement after only recently starting playing again after misplaced log on details!

A big well done to all the other children in Year 5 who have been playing and contributing points to their team. These children are in no particular order; Evie, Lacey, Reece, Jack C, Keaton, Mason, Szabina, Oliver G, Georgia, Jaidon S, Jamie, Heidi, Sophie, Robyn, Oliver L and Sophie-Mai!

Well done super spellers!

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4 years ago
Posted on 14th May 2020 by

Spelling shed!

Whoopee, we are still on top in Set 3! Well done to Olly B and Mason who have played the most in our set. Georgia you are 3rd, good girl!

A special well done to Charlie, as I know you lost your spelling shed log on so can now play with all of us and you are 9th in the whole school! Fantastic!

Keep on playing year 5, it will really make a big difference to your spelling knowledge!

4 years ago
Posted on 12th May 2020 by

Grow some plants at home for free!

Thank you to Oscar and Elsie’s mum who sent in the details of the Green Thyme ‘Plant a Seed Project’. Fill in the attached form to get some free seeds which you can plant with your children at home! Please contact them directly- do not send your completed forms into school.

Green Thyme Seed Project 2020-1

4 years ago
Posted on 12th May 2020 by

Letter from Mrs Sixsmith

Dear Parents,

I do hope you are all well and keeping safe.

I am contacting you regarding the Government’s plan to open schools to more pupils from 1st June. As you will be aware, they would like schools to start having nursery, reception, Y1 and Y6 pupils come back.

School leaders have only been issued the same documents that the general public have, so we have no further information to tell you at this point. As you can imagine, staff, Governors and I will need to take time to understand the content of the guidance and begin to put plans in place to ensure whatever we do is in the best interests of our children, parents and staff. I realise that many of you will have questions about your own family circumstances but at this time we are unlikely to be able to answer them until we know more, but I have included the link here to the Government’s guidance for parents and carers which was updated yesterday. I know it will answer some of your questions.

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/closure-of-educational-settings-information-for-parents-and-carers/reopening-schools-and-other-educational-settings-from-1-june

It is still very early to know if schools will indeed be able to put everything into place to ensure all the children in nursery, reception, Y1 and Y6 are able to return on 1st June but I will continue to keep you informed. Can I please ask that you regularly check the school website https://www.stgeorgesschool.org.uk/ for up-to-date information. The best place to look is click onto Parents’ Area and then onto School News.

I would like to thank you all for showing such kindness and support to our school over the past few weeks. It has been great to see so many families join our weekly live quizzes and send in work and photos to be shared with our school family. Staff genuinely love having a school full of children and we all hope that once it is safe to do so, that we will be able to welcome everyone back.

Yours sincerely,

Mrs Sally Sixsmith

Head Teacher

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4 years ago
Posted on 12th May 2020 by

Arup ‘My Future Home’ Competition

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sRaFNo0yHb0

Follow the link above to a video which provides more details about a competition organised by a company called Arup. Children need to design what they think a home will look like in the year 2050 and then email a photo of their design to…

foresight@arup.com