Year 5

Welcome to the Year 5 page of our website!

What a lovely half term we had, ending with School Council Elections! This term will continue to to full of fun as we continue to have laugh, learn more and enjoy having more responsibility in school.

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

Tuesdays- PE day (gym) and some children have music lessons

Fridays-PE days- invasion games and homework is set.

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. As the weather gets colder a school hooded sweatshirt is also recommended. On Tuesdays for gym, children will need to be bare foot and tie back hair for their own safety.

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 is still up for review at the moment and so in the short term, please complete the following.

Reading- Please read as much as you can and record it in your diary.

Spellings- A list will be shared on a Friday and will be on Spelling Shed.

Times tables- Please keep practising your tables on TTRS so that they stay as fresh as they were last summer.

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.

What has been on my book pile over the holidays?

This half term, I have really enjoyed reading Beowulf with the class. I have also read 'Crowfall' by Vashti Hardy. It is a really unusual book set in a fantasy setting. I really enjoyed it. Equally, the children have been reading some excellent books so do look at our reading display for reviews and ask about the Reading for Pleasure book.

Curriculum Overview

AUTUMN TERM LEARNING – SECOND HALF

English

During this second half term we will be writing epic adventure stories using the Odyssey as our inspiration. We will continue to use different clauses in our writing, description for the reader and will be learning new punctuation in brackets and dashes. We will have many opportunities to write every day. As the term progresses, we will use the 'Snowman' by Raymond Briggs as inspiration. In reading, we will read 'Who let the Gods out' by Maz Evans. It is a very funny book based on gods helping look after a young boy called Elliot. It is the first in a series so this might inspire the children to try different books. We will continue to practise our retrieval, inference, prediction, explanation and language choice skills. Our spelling learning will be linked to our writing work and we will use the Statutory List as well as several rules.

Maths

This half term focuses more on fractions, multiplication and division. We will learn about equivalent fractions, simplifying fractions and converting between mixed numbers and improper fractions. We will learn short division and short multiplication and use these in word problems. Each week we will continue to practise times tables. 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.

P.E.

PE this term is great fun. We will be learning invasion games on Fridays which will link to all different ball games. On Tuesdays, we will do gym learning several different balances and use those to create sequences on and off apparatus.

Science

This half term our Science topic will be ' What do scientists do?' We will explore they role they take, look at different skills they demonstrate and will use the skills to complete some bigger enquiries.

R.E.

The title for our RE learning during this half term will be- Who is Jesus? We will look at who Jesus was, looking from many different world view lenses. We will explore what Christians, Jews and Muslims say about Jesus. We will explore bible readings where Jesus is described such as the Gospels. As we progress towards Christmas, we will obviously be considering is Jesus was the Messiah and we will be looking at the true meaning of Christmas.

PSHE

In PSHE we shall be exploring family and relationships looking at how we build friendships and how we care for our friends during the ebb and flow of life. We will explore what marriage is, understand how to show self respect to ourselves and consider ways to prevent bullying.

Topic

We will continue this term looking at the Anglo Saxons. We will look at how they spread Christianity and whether Alfred the Great was indeed great. We will also be having the Great Big Pottage Off in November where children, as part of DT, will be busy making soup. They will be judged by Mrs Woolley and a governor!

Creative Arts

Children will be learning about Favianna Rodriguez who is an American artist who uses printing to share her message. She cares about Climate Change and social justice. We will be using several printing strategies to create a piece inspired by her. They will also see some funny art by Chris Efstratis. He used clay to create funny sculptures. The children will create their own. In Music, the children will learn about musical theatre/

If you have any questions, please do get in touch via the office on: admin3590@welearn365.com or keyte.h@welearn365.com

Best wishes,

Mrs Keyte

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