Nicola Penfold - Year 5
Welcome to Nicola Penfold Class:
Class Teacher: Miss Whitcombe
We have really enjoyed the year so far!
Our Class Author - Nicola Penfold
Nicola Penfold
Nicola Penfold was born in Billinge and grew up in Doncaster. She studied English at St John’s College, Cambridge. Nicola’s worked in a reference library and for a health charity, but being a writer was always the job she wanted most.
Nicola writes in a shed at the bottom of her garden. She lives in North London, with her husband, children and cats, and escapes when she can to wilder corners of the UK for adventures.
Areas of Learning:
Maths: Multiplication and division, Fractions, Decimals and Percentages and Statistics
English: Quest story focussing on character description and a Newspaper Report.
Reading: Developing our Rainbow Reading skills and understanding (Copy Cat, Authors Craft, Text Detective and Judge and Jury question types).
RE: Understanding why Christians believe Jesus was the Messiah
Science: Properties of Materials.
RSHE: Puberty and Relationships.
Topic: Ancient Romans v Ancient Greeks.
Here is our sticky knowledge for this topic:
Below are all our spelling, KIRF and Knowledge Organisers for the term.