1st July 2020

Dear Year 5!

An enormous, Everest-sized ‘whoop, whoop’ to our active, thoughtful and resilient class. It is an

absolute pleasure to receive you updates and have a sneaky-peak of an insight into the outrageously-

varied range of interests you all have!

Firstly, our perspiration-drenching weekly class ‘activity train’ shows no sign of slowing and halting to

a stop. We’re currently tracking on 960 hours and 10 minutes, which is within touching distance of

Y6’s 1076 hours and 50 minutes. Together, we still account for 70% of the school’s total, so let’s

keep positively and purposefully striding forward for the final two weeks and keep the friendly,

competition pressure on!

Secondly, Mr Spencer has planned a Sports Week between Monday 6th - Friday 10th July for all

classes and children to participate in. Our ‘PE PT-T’ (Physical Education Personal Trainer-Teacher)

letter with all the information, task instructions and forms to record your activity achievements is

included immediately below. All classes will be competing against each other so let’s channel our

inner blistering-Usain Bolt, heptathlon heroics of Katarina Johnson-Thompson, dynamic Dina Asher-

Smith or the wilful-focus of David Weir to enjoy the challenges, try our best and flex our famous Y5

muscles!

Moving away from ‘muscle’ (given the phrase ‘the pen is mightier than the sword’), ‘M’ has been the

magic letter for letters this week - with a big air ‘high five’ to Marina, Max, Mayar and Milan for

writing in. Marina – well done on passing your Grade 3 on the piano, feeding the parrots (hopefully

without any more incidents involving something else beginning with ‘p’ that is also a ‘sp emoji’ ) and

play rehearsals for ‘Into the Woods.’ I think you’ll make an excellent Cinderella stepsister - just don’t

practise on your actual sister in the meantime! I’m super impressed to hear that you have been

learning about coding. Enjoy the Order of the Phoenix and I think your triangle angle question is 42

degrees ;-). Max – your spooky, seaside, short ghost story sent shivers down my spine and would be

amongst equally ghoulish company in the next edition of eerie tales by Kevin Crossley Holland.

Mayar – your Wi&Fi cartoon is incredibly special. You are far too kind and generous – a mention in

your blockbuster movie credits and an invitation to the glamorous red carpet film premier will suffice

! I have no doubt you would be the most sensible, environmentally-conscious do-gooder in the

Hollywood movie mogul industry (and yes, we all need a well-deserved break from time to time).

Milan – anyone who manages to celebrate their birthday four times deserves a medal and guard of

honour! I am still mightily impressed that you managed to wangle and collectively consume four

birthday cakes. I’d personally have to hit the treadmill - like a manic gerbil in an exercise-wheel - for

a week, to offset all that sugary yumminess!

Furthermore, our brilliant Y5 blog just keeps getting better and better with more and more of you all

getting involved. Adelina – I loved your Sponge Bob spot the difference. Roman and Pepe – you’ve

both convinced me to temporary shelve my next-to-read novel plans and plummet head first for

adventure in the form of ‘The Last Wild Series’ and ‘A Boy and Bear in a Boat.’ Roman – I agree that

foxes are rather ‘fantastic’ . Julia – ‘The Chase’ is definitely on with your ‘beastly’ quiz questions

and Marina – your assortment of intricate origami is masterfully ‘animal-tastic’! Sebastian – your

algebraic brain-boggling teaser had me baffled but your chocolate facts or ‘choc-acts’ post gave me

some temporarily light relief before resuming your maths challenge! Milan – you really are becoming

our Y5 Alan Titchmarch (he’s a famous gardener and TV presenter). You should possibly consider

providing a quote to Mrs Vagic for the landscaping and replanting of the school’s green space …

apparently, a trick of the trade is to compile your quote and then add a few zeroes (or place values)

to the bill’s bottom line .

In other news, Sophie has had a week off the baking business. I think this is primarily because her

baking requires the oven to be on a high setting, which makes the kitchen too hot for Bobby

(although I have a sneaking suspicion she thinks I’ve been eating too much bread recently). Bobby is

enjoying the cooler weather this week and is still picking up and claiming anything dropped on the

floor as hers – such as shower scrunchies, the post, shoes and pretty much anything else. Sophie

and I also managed to unknowingly wear identical clothes one evening.

I hope you all have a great week Y5. Keep on smiling Y5 and enjoy the PE challenges!

All my thoughts and best wishes,

Mr Tauchert

SBSP Sports Week 2020

Hello and welcome to our Sports Week for this academic year!

It would have been very upsetting to not celebrate the sporting abilities of our pupils

across the school so we have planned for a week-long event.

From Monday 6th July to Friday 10th July, all pupils will aim to complete 8 activities

and send in the total number of points they have achieved. All scores from the year

group will be added and the winning year group revealed. Therefore, ALL pupils

must try their best and complete the activities to give their year group the greatest

chance of winning!

The event has been planned knowing that households will not have access to lots of

sports equipment or much space. The points system has been calculated to fit the

expectations of each year group – the same 8 activities will be done by each pupil but

the amount of points that are won is dependent on the year group the child is in.

You should be able to find instructions for how each activity is to be done as well as

the rules for scoring. You are only allowed 1 ATTEMPT at each. Of course you

can practise an activity, but when you’ve decided to officially start it, then that will

be your final score.

One of our school values is trust and we will be trusting that you complete the

activities fairly and to their best of your ability.

I look forward to receiving the results no later than Sunday 12th July. Please email

only your name, year group and points total to admin@sbsp.rbkc.sch.uk

I wish you the best of luck and look forward to announcing the winner on the school

website on Monday 13th July.

Best wishes,

Mr Spencer

PE coordinator

Instructions for posting an image

First, take a photo of what you’ve done. This could be a piece of learning, artwork or an

activity being done.

Then, save the photo to your computer (unless it was taken on the device you are using

to access the blog).

Next, click on this

Now, click on

Finally, click which should let you find the photo you wish to share.

Instructions to post on USO blog

First, go to USO Login at my.uso.im/SBSP

Once logged in (logins were sent home), click on j2e icon.

Then, click j2e5.

Now, complete your learning and click publish icon (near the top left and looks like a

globe).

Finally, type its title and make sure you've selected blog 55 from the dropdown menu.

Press publish to j2Webby

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First, go to USO Login at my.uso.im/SBSP

Once logged in, click on j2e icon.

Then, click j2webby (which looks like what you see to the right).

Now, hover over the word Blogs and select 55.

You are now on the blog and can view posts and leave comments!

Instructions for recording your physical activities on the ‘Get-Set’ website

1. First, go to https://www.getset.co.uk/travel-tokyo/log-activity

2. Then, enter school postcode (W8 6EJ) and click on school name.

3. Next, select year 5

4. Finally, click on the category that most closely fits your activity and the details

about your activity. Then just submit! It’s as straight forward as ‘on your

marks, get set, go!’

‘Would you like this shower scrunchie?’ ‘Nope! You can’t have it.’

‘But why has Mrs T gone to the shops without me?’ ‘Hooray for the online quiz!’

‘Time for a nap. This spot under the table looks comfy ‘I can’t believe they wore the same

(and I might be lucky - some food might drop down).’ clothes. Humans are strange!’

Last week’s answers:

1) Personal pronouns – I, you, he, she, it, we, they, me, him, her, us and them

Possessive pronouns – my, our, your, his, her, its and their

Relative pronouns – who, whom, whose, which and that

2) Non-fiction instruction/explanation text features: Headings, subheadings, bulletpoints,

modal verbs, imperative verbs, time adverbials, diagrams, technical language.

3)

4) The census is a head count of everyone in the country on a given day. A census has been

taken in England and Wales, and separately for Scotland, every ten years since 1801, with

the exception of 1941.

The object of the census was not to obtain detailed information about individuals, but to

provide information about the population as a whole; listing everyone by name, wherever

they happened to be on a single night, was the most efficient way to count everybody once,

and nobody twice.

5) Big Hero 6

Year 5’s ‘Famous Five’ Quiz Questions

1) How many phonemes (sounds) can you recall (and list)? How can they be grouped or

categorised?

2) What is the difference between direct speech and indirect speech? Explain and write an

example of each.

3)

4) What is the difference between a refugee and an asylum seeker?

5) Movie Title phrased badly: Auburn highland tomboy attempts to reverse mystical

shapeshifting curse on family member.