Please click on the links to access resources for the topics you are learning this half term.

	Human Growth
	Vive la France
	Art and Design - Local Artist to Collaboration

At St Thomas’ we value the link between home and school and we recognise parental support is vital to a child’s progress and education. This year, we have developed how our children will complete home learning tasks, using evidence informed guidance from the Education Endowment Fund. Below are a range of age-appropriate ways that you can help support your child’s learning from home, complimenting their classroom work and ensuring accelerated progress. Please encourage your child to engage in these tasks, little and often, and let us know how they have done by writing in your child’s planner. Parental support for homework can promote the self-regulation in children necessary to achieve academic goals including goal-setting, planning, perseverance, and the management of time, materials, attentiveness, and emotions. There are learning opportunities all around us so let us embrace them and develop confident, well-rounded young people, who can flourish in the modern world.

• Practice your handwriting.
• Write a daily/weekly diary.
• Write a book or chapter review. It could also be a review on a TV programme or film. We would love to hear about it in school!
• Research about our topic and write some facts. You could create a topic map/knowledge organiser.
• Write a glossary of words for a book you are reading.
• Play a child’s version of wordle, word search or cross word.

• Work on your Year 5 Lees field life skills.
• Go to a club or extra-curricular activity.
• Have a day out or time spent with family and chat about it or to each other. This could be playing board games in your house, cooking together or visiting the library or park! Could you go on a walk and look at the history and/or nature around Oldham?
• Go outside and play or explore. This could be with friends or family. You could make a den!
• Plan or help plan a journey and follow timetable or map. When do you need to set off? What transport do you need to get? When will you arrive? What ticket do you need? How much does that cost?
• Can you practice your coding skills at home? Could you make your own game?

PE will be on Monday and Wednesday afternoons. 

Indoor PE: Rounders (most likely be outdoors also)

Outdoor PE: Athletics