Welcome to Year 5.
Our teaching team this year includes Mrs Keys, Miss Linnell, Ms Farid and Mrs Nawaz.
Our PE days are Mondays and Wednesdays.
Homework
To support our learning in school, there are three pieces of homework expected every day. Please sign the reading journal to show that each of the following has been completed:
1) 20 minutes of reading to an adult
2) Maths Task
3) English Task
Maths shed and Spelling on Monday, Wednesday and Friday.
TTRS and Grammar on Tuesday and Thursday.
Reading should include listening to a child read aloud and having discussions about the plot and characters.
English
Reading
Our fiction book in the summer term, is 'The Jaguar Trials' by Ruth Eastham and it is set in the jungle. Please continue to listen to your child read aloud daily and discuss the plot and characters together. Ask questions to check their understanding and encourage them to make comparisons with other books and their own experience. Reading is the best way for children to develop their vocabulary and their imagination and forms the foundation for success in all the other subjects!
Writing
Our writing will focus on an explanation text about bats and their importance and will explore the appropriate sentence structures and vocubulary for achieving a formal tone.
Our spelling lessons will include revision on the spelling patterns learnt so far and some of the challenge words that are statutory for Years 5/6. In handwriting, we will be aiming to join our letters consistently.
Punctuation in Year 5 includes some exciting features to support more sophisticated sentence stuructures such as brackets, dashes, commas for a variety of purposes, colons and semi-colons and using inverted commas for dialogue.
Ways to support your child with English
Please find below a list of websites which will help your child succeed in reading and writing:
Read together daily! Talk about words and characters and settings and what you might you do in similar situations. Take turns to read to keep your child motivated.
Maths
In the summer term, we will be finishing our unit on decimals before moving on to angles, learning how to draw, measure and calculate them.
Ways to support your child with Maths
The best way to improve maths knowledge and understanding is to notice maths everywhere in our daily lives! Practise telling the time and looking at timetables, add and subtract money, calculate percentages by looking for special offers when shopping.
This list of websites is also useful for regular practice and additional support.
Geography
This term, we will be learning about biomes and the rainforest.
PE
PE is on Monday and Wednesday afternoons and appropriate PE kit is required.
- Plain, royal-blue crew neck T–shirt.
- Plain, royal blue shorts or navy blue tracksuit bottoms. (plain, navy blue leggings may be worn if changed from those worn as part of school uniform).
- Plain, white or black trainers (optional plimsoles for indoor PE).
- Earrings (studs only) removed or taped.
This term's topics are OOA (Outdoor Adventurous Activities) and Athletics.
We will be making a papier mache sculpture inspired by the work of the artist Will Kurz.
RE
We will be looking at special places of different religions.
Oracy
Having effective discussions, requires certain physical, social, and language skills, which we will be practicing in these lessons. Please share conversations about these at home.
Metacognition and Learning for Life
Children are taught how to become successful, independent learners by changing their mindset in Metacognition, In Learning for Life, our topic is Myself and others and our theme is The Caribbean.
Spanish
Our new unit is learning words and phrases on the topic of Shopping.
Computing
In computing, our unit on creating media involves stop motion animation and is called Sonic:Pi.
Year 5 Enriching Experiences
In the autumn term, we had lots of fun on our Wetlands trip, our Witches Day and our Christmas Workshop. In the spring term, we had an exciting day on our trip to the Tower of London as part of our history topic 'Crime and punishment'. We also enjoyed our Easter Workshop at the local church. Next term, we are looking forward to our visit to the Living Rainforest when we learn about the lifecycles of plants and animals. You can see more photos of our experience days on the news section of the website.