Year 5 Spellings: 2nd July - 6th July

Below are the Year 5 Spellings for this week. The weekly test will be on Friday and children should hand their spelling books in on this day. Pupils are expected to practice their spellings for 15 minutes per day as well as practice their times tables and read at home. Children are encouraged to search for the definitions of the words and use them in sentences.

	A	B	C
WOW	regicide	regicide	money
1	attached	attached	grow
2	controversy	controversy	keep
3	definite	definite	many
4	muscle	muscle	feet
5	immediate	immediate	find
6	review	sentence	could
7	warranty	remember	brood
8	precinct	famous	summon
9	sincere	century	able
10	recommend	busy	urge
11	official	official
12	special	special
13	social	social
14	artificial	artificial
15	financial	financial
16	gallant	gallant
17	valiant	valiant
18	persuade	persuade
19	guilty	guilty
20	culpable	culpable

Year 5 Secondary School Transfer Meeting

Dear Year 5 Parents/Carers,

On Wednesday July 4th at 3.15pm a representative from the Havering School Admissions Team will be hosting a meeting for all Year 5 parents.

This meetings is a good opportunity for you to ask questions regarding choosing your child's secondary school and you will be provided with lots of useful information regarding the process. You will also be provided with details of important dates such as opening and closing dates as well as details of when the secondary school opening evenings will be held. 

The meeting will last no longer than an hour and will be held in the school hall. 

Year 6 Junior Citizenship Trip

Today, the Year 6 pupils attended the Junior Citizenship experience and met people from the police, the London Fire Brigade, Havering Safer Transport, Transport for London and many others. The pupils were put into groups and visited different scenarios hosted by various agencies on a carousel. 

We met the Royal Lifeboat Rescue Service and the man explained to us about the dangers of currents
and tides when in the water. We learned that we should never enter water alone and that if we are struggling, we should try and stay still with our arms up in the air and shout 'help' as loudly as possible.

Austin

Representatives from litter enforcement were present today to ensure that pupils were aware of the terrible effects of rubbish on animals. 80% of children in our year group stated that they had seen the effects of litter on local wildlife. 

We were very lucky to hear all about how to stay safe while travelling, an important thing to remember as our pupils move up to secondary school. Transport for London brought along a bus so the children could rehearse safely waiting on the side of the road and using their zip cards. They also discovered how to stay safe on buses and what to do if they ever see an unattended bag. 

It was good to learn that when waiting for a bus you should wait far behind the bus stop. The ideal guideline is your height and a step back! If you fall into the road, you could be seriously hurt so it is not worth taking the risk. 

Yemi

You must check your smoke alarm once a week at home and change the battery once a year. If there is a fire, you should stay as low as possible because smoke rises. 
Ijeoma

The teams collected points for behaviour, listening skills and retention of knowledge and all scored at least 87 points out of a possible 90. 

Overall, a fantastic trip which allowed our children to learn life skills and to experience real-life situations which may arise in the future. 

Year 5 Spellings: 25th June - 28th June

Below are the Year 5 Spellings for this week. The weekly test will be on Thursday and children should hand their spelling books in on this day. Pupils are expected to practice their spellings for 15 minutes per day as well as practice their times tables and read at home. Children are encouraged to search for the definitions of the words and use them in sentences.

	A	B	C
WOW	entrepreneur	entrepreneur	work
1	accompany	accompany	under
2	community	community	dark
3	competition	competition	three
4	convenience	convenience	once
5	criticise	criticise	only
6	geyser	recent	look
7	hearth	surprise	looking
8	caribou	promise	thing
9	scholar	interest	these
10	toboggan	consider	please
11	cautious	cautious
12	infectious	infectious
13	ambitious	ambitious
14	superstitious	superstitious
15	nutritious	nutritious
16	position	position
17	reflection	reflection
18	direction	direction
19	translation	translation
20	rotation	rotation