Year 5
Welcome back after the Easter break. After last half term, I am really excited to meet our new books and new subjects!
Daily Routines- These are the same as last term
Please come into school via the KS2 door, store your bag in your locker and have your water, pencil case, reading book and reading diary to hand. When you come in, we will have an activity ready to ease us into our day. At the end of the day, we will come out to the KS2 playground ready to go home.
Weekly Routines
We have a few activities timetabled every week.
Mondays- Some children have music lessons in school
Thursdays- -PE day
Fridays-PE day
On PE days, please come to school wearing your PE uniform. Pupils need to wear a plain white t-shirt (or one with the school logo) and plain black or navy bottoms. Shorts or leggings are best in summer.
Snacks and water
Just a reminder to bring a water bottle to school. There are opportunities to fill up your bottle during the day. Also, do bring a healthy snack like fruit to school for break time.
Homework
Homework will continue as it did last term.
All homework is sent home on a Friday.
Maths- this will be a page from Mathletics. It is reviewed on a Wednesday.
Reading- Please read as much as you can and record it in your diary.
SPaG- This will be a page of our CGP book. It is due back to school for Wednesday.
Spelling- This is on Spelling Shed and they are the same words we learn in spelling each week.
Topic- This is a longer homework and you have a half term to complete an activity of your choice.
You can also practise your times tables on TTRS.
Ways to help at home
Please continue to read with your child and ask them lots of questions about their reading. To help writing, it is always a good idea to play games in the newspaper like Wordles and word searches. To help with number skills, please help by encouraging your child to use their TTRS account to practise.
Curriculum Overview
SUMMER TERM LEARNING
English
During this term we are meeting some special narrative texts- The Diary of Anne Frank, The High Rise Mystery and When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit.
We will be writing mystery narratives, diaries, newspapers and poems. We will practise our formal writing, descriptive writing, different sentence structures and think how to link texts over paragraphs. In reading, we will read ‘When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit’ by Judith Kerr and ‘Overheard in a Towerblock’ by Joseph Coelho. These are fiction and poetry. We will continue to practise our fluency, word recognition, prediction, retrieval, and inference skills as well as using evidence from the text to give our impression.
Maths
During this term, we will be developing our knowledge around percentages, linking them to fractions and decimals, and learning to find percentages of amounts, particularly using some shortcuts. We will add and subtract fractions with related denominators. We will revise the 4 key operations. We will be doing lots of word problems, both sorting and solving. Please continue to practise regularly at home so that the facts stay fluent. The use of ‘Times Tables Rock Star’ or the ‘Hit the Button’ website can be used to support this learning.
PE
PE this term will continue to be great fun. We are having the SSP team in Thursdays and on Fridays the class will complete Net and Wall games. We will be taking part in fitness lessons.
Science
This term we will be looking at materials and how they change. We will test conductivity, explore dissolving and separation. We will also learn about humans as animals, looking at life cycles and how we develop in the womb and how we mature into old age. We will revise what happens during puberty.
R.E.
In RE this term, we are exploring how Christians live well and how all world views embody their faith. We will also look at how different world views relate to and distribution and how land ownership has importance in different groups.
PSHE
In PSHE, we are learning how we change during puberty and how to be a citizen of our country following the rules of law.
Topic
In our topic lessons, under the title ‘What is it like to be in a Desert?’ we will explore where deserts are, what their human and physical features are, how the weather changes and how humans interact with the environment. In History, we will be exploring life in Tudor England and have the opportunity to go to Mary Arden’s farm to find out more about rural life.
Art and Design Technology
In DT, we are going to be designing pop up books for our new Reception buddies. We will be using different techniques to get the page moving. In art, we will be researching different artists through history such as Warhol and Dali. We will focus on Frida Kahlo and will replicate their styles.
In Music, the children will learn about South and West African music and Looping and Mixing.
Best wishes,
Mrs Keyte