Welcome to Year 5 

The Team

Miss Scott
Year Lead
​Sycamore Class
Miss Pollard
Teacher
​Elm Class
Kirsty
LSA
​Sycamore Class
Emma
​LSA
​Elm Class
Thoura 
LSA 
​Sycamore Class
Pascaline
LSA
​Elm Class
Kerry
LSA
​Elm Class

PE Days

Indoor PE
Miss Scott's Class: Mondays
Miss Pollard's Class: Mondays
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Outdoor PE
Miss Scott's Class: Wednesdays
Miss Pollard's Class: Wednesdays

Make sure your child comes into school wearing a PE kit suitable for outdoor PE on both days so that they can stay warm.
 

Key Dates

Tuesday 6th June- Back to school 
Friday 9th June- Sports Day at Stantonbury Athletic
Wednesday 21st- Friday 23rd June- Bushcraft residential
Thursday 29th June- Summer Disco 
Wednesday 5th July- Transition Morning
Monday 10th July- Home learning due in 
Friday 21st July- Last Day of School 

This Half Term

Project: All Along The River


This half term we will be :
  • Learning about how rivers are formed.
  • Learning about parts of a river.
  • Finding out about rivers in our local area.
  • Researching flood defences for rivers in our area.
  • ​Finding out about the impact of flooding and pollution on our local waterways.

Suggested Activities to Support Learning

To support your child at home you could:
  • Visit some of the Rivers in Milton Keynes.

Writing 

This half term our class text is Who Let The Gods Out by Maz Evans. During our English lessons we will be learning how to:
  • Write a persuasive letter.
  • Use cause and effect conjunctions.
  • Use rhetorical questions.
  • Use emotive language.

Suggested Activities to Support Learning

To support your child at home you could:
  • Find out about local issues and write a persuasive letter to the council to give your views.
  • Read different types of letters.

Maths

This half term we will be learning to:
  • Understand the relative size of decimal numbers.
  • Understand the equivalence between fractions, decimals and percentages.
  • Calculate using decimals.
  • Translate geometric shapes on a grid.
  • Measure volume and capacity.

Suggested Activities to Support Learning

To support your child at home you could:
  • Continue to practise times tables using TT Rockstars or DoodleTables (log ins are inside reading records)
  • Practise on Numbots (using your TTRockstars password) to become very quick with your addition and subtraction skills.
  • Practise maths skills on Doodle maths.
  • Use the White Rose Home Learning booklets each day to recap what has been learnt in school.
  • Practise using this half term's maths vocabulary (decimal, fraction, tenths, hundredths, thousandths, translate, coordinates, angle, volume, capacity)

 Science - Animals Including Humans

This half term we will be learning:​
  • To describe the differences in life cycles between mammals, amphibians, birds and insects.
  • To describe the life process of reproduction in some plants and animals.

Suggested Activities to Support Learning

To support your child at home you could: ​
  • Try to identify the parts of different plants and flowers in your garden or local area.
  • Look for different pollinators, such as bees, in your local area.

Computing

Suggested Activities to Support Learning
This half term we will be learning:
  • To use online software to create 3D models.
  • Design and evaluate my model.
  • Create different textures and patterns for the surface of my model.
To support your child at home you could: ​
  • Use Sketchup Free at home to practise the skills we are using in school.
  • Talk to your child about online safety and protecting their own data.
  • Discuss how 3D modelling might be used in everyday life.
 

Art and Design

This half term, we will be:
  • Designing and making our own pop-up books.
  • Evaluating different designs and exploring how pivot and slider mechanisms work.
  • Understanding how to reinforce our paper designs and conceal the mechanisms.
  • Evaluating our own designs.

Suggested Activities to Support Learning

To support your child at home you could:​
  • Look at different pop-up books in the library.
  • Look online to find instructions for simple pop up designs of your own.

Music - Musical Theatre

This half term in music we will be:
  • Explain what musical theatre is and be able to recall at least three features of this kind of music.
  • Categorise songs as action songs or character songs.
  • Select appropriate existing music for their scene to tell the story of a journey.
  • Perform in time with their groups, ensuring smooth transitions between spoken dialogue, singing and dancing.
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Suggested Activities to Support Learning

To support your child at home you could:​
  • Take a trip to the theatre to watch a musical.
  • Watch a musical online.
  • Listen to musical theatre songs at home.

PSHE

This half term in our Jigsaw lessons we will be learning about 'Changing Me'.
We will be learning:
  • To respect that everyone is different and unique.
  • To understand changes that may happen in our bodies during puberty.
  • To understand that sexual intercourse can lead to conception.
  • How we will take on new responsibilities as we become teenagers.

Suggested Activities to Support Learning

To support your child at home you could:
  • Talk to them about what they are learning in school.
  • Answer questions that they may have about this topic.

RE - Belief Within Our Community

​This half term we will be:
  • Finding out about the different beliefs of religious and non-religious communities in our local area.
  • Considering how being part of a religious community can help some people.
  • Finding out about the impact that faith and beliefs have had on inspirational figures.
  • Considering what makes it difficult to live life according to our own beliefs.

Suggested Activities to Support Learning

To support your child at home you could:
  • Discuss different religions.
  • ​Discuss communities that you are a part of and why you chose to be a part of this community.
  • Talk about beliefs that you or your family hold.

PE

During our outdoor PE sessions this half term, we will be learning track and athletics skills including running, jumping and throwing.
​During our indoor PE sessions we will be learning dance skills by creating a group dance to represent environmental change on our planet.
PE kits should be worn to school on our PE days. Please note that we do try to continue with our PE sessions even when the weather is very cold. We also currently have all windows open during the day for better ventilation so please make sure you wear weather-appropriate PE attire (warm jumpers, jogging bottoms) as well as suitable trainers for the outdoor PE sessions.

Suggested Activities to Support Learning

To support your child at home you could:
  • Choose a sport to take part in at home.
  • Find sporting videos to watch online.








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French
Suggested Activities to support learning
This half term in French we will be learning 'Les Transports' (Transport).
To support your child at home you could:
  • ​Practise some of the phrases we have been learning at school.
  • Listen to French songs and nursery rhymes.