Learning Challenge
Dear Parents and Carers,
We are delighted to provide you with the Learning Challenge for the second half of the Spring Term. The activities are split into Basic, Advanced and Deep Learning. This allows us to look at learning at Mead, and is designed to ensure that children not only acquire factual knowledge but also gain a further understanding about how their new skills or knowledge can be applied to their own lives or be used to further their cognitive and social development.
The theme of the Learning Challenge for the second half of the Spring Term is ‘Space.’ It is entirely up to the child whether they select the poem, significant person, music or painting, or a combination of all 4. They can also select the activities that they want to attempt, though we would encourage them to deepen their learning as much as possible.
Although the Learning Challenge is optional, and in addition to the daily expectation of 15 minutes reading, 15 minutes times tables rehearsals and 15 minutes spellings practice, we would hope that a large proportion of children would voluntarily take up the challenge and will gain a great deal from doing so. We would therefore be grateful for you to encourage this at home. The children will receive a special Learning Challenge certificate at the end of the half term on completion of a project that shows a significant level of effort and challenge undertaken by the individual child.
Should you have any problems regarding this, or any other issue, please do not hesitate to contact us. We thank you again for your continued support, and look forward to seeing you in the near future.
Yours sincerely,
The Year 5 team.
Mr O Frith, Miss L Havelock, Miss S Griffiths and Miss L Galpin.
