Adders Class 20.10.25
Date: 16th Oct 2025 @ 8:24pm
Welcome to the final week of this half term! This week is Activity Week! A really fun and exciting week has been planned for you to enjoy. Your adults would have received an email about what you need to bring for next week, but it will be outlined below:
MONDAY: We will travel to Copdock on the minibus. You need to wear your PE kit as there will be team building activities, creative writing and PE all afternoon. You can either bring a packed lunch or order a school lunch to eat at Copdock. You will be transported back to Bentley for the end of the school day.
TUESDAY: We will travel to Belstead church on the minibus for our walk back to Bentley. You need to wear clothes suitable for walking and also Boxercise in the afternoon. You can wear walking boots for the walk and bring trainers to wear for the afternoon. You can either bring a packed lunch or order a school lunch to eat at Bentley. We will also be making our packed lunches for Wednesday's picnic at Alton Water.
WEDNESDAY: We will travel to Copdock on the minibus. You will need to wear clothes suitable for skipping and bring swimming kit (swimming costume, towel and shoes that you don't mind getting wet). You will not need to bring any lunch. Year 5 will spend the morning at Copdock for skipping and team building whilst Year 6 will travel to Alton Water for kayaking. Year 5 will travel to Alton Water for a picnic with Year 6. During the afternoon, Year 5 will be doing kayaking and Year 6 will travel back to Copdock for skipping and team building. Year 5 will be transported back to Bentley after kayaking and Year 6 will be transported back to Bentley for the end of the school day.
THURSDAY: We will travel to Copdock on the minibus. You will need to wear your PE kit or school kit if you are taking part in the Football Tournament. You will also need a packed lunch to take with you to the tournament. Children not taking part in the tournament will remain at Copdock for dance and netball activities. During the afternoon, both classes (and Hedgehogs) will take part in Kicks and Tricks with a nerf battle. You will be transported back to Bentley for the end of the school day.
FRIDAY: PD Day - you get an extra day off!! It is then half term.
You MUST bring a coat to school EVERY DAY as the weather is really changeable at the moment. Please check the weather forecast daily as a lot of our activities will be outside.
This week's homework is:
- Maths - complete the sheet in your book - Common Multiples.
- Spelling sheet - Statutory Word List
- Learning activity - using this half term's curriculum map (attached as a file), create an A3 poster to recall what you have learnt in all areas of the curriculum over the last six weeks. Be creative with the way you organise your poster. You can use text boxes, titles, pictures, diagrams, colours, computer generated text. The purpose of this task is for you to demonstrate how much knowledge you have learnt and can retrieve.
- Learn the first column of the Y5/6 or Y3/4 Common Exception Words. The ones you need to learn have been highlighted on the list in the front of your homework book. You will have a test after half term on these words.
- Use TTRockstars to practise your times tables - you MUST know these!! If you don't, you need to go on here EVERY DAY.
- Read for Pleasure at least FIVE times this week AND over half term and record this in your diary for our Reading Giants challenge. Ask a grown up to sign your book on Friday's section for both weeks.
Please complete your homework and bring into school AFTER HALF TERM on FRIDAY 7th NOVEMBER.