Welcome to Year 5 

The Team

Miss Scott
Year Lead
​Sycamore Class
Mr Fay
Teacher
​Elm Class
Miss Wilkins
LSA
​Sycamore Class
Miss Hegarty
​LSA
​Elm Class

PE Days

Indoor PE
Miss Scott's Class: Mondays
Mr Fay's Class: Mondays
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Outdoor PE
Miss Scott's Class: Fridays
Mr Fay's Class: Tuesdays

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

Thursday 28th April - Elizabethan Day
Monday 16th May - Home Learning due
​Wednesday 25th May - Whole school Jubilee celebrations

This Half Term

Project: The Elizabethans


This half term we will be :
  • Learning about who Queen Elizabeth I was and how she came to be on the throne.
  • Finding out about religious settlement during this time and the impact it had on Elizabeth's reign.
  • Learning about developments in trade and navigation during this time and how it had an impact on people's lives.
  • Learning about the events of the Spanish war.
  • Comparing the lives of those during the Elizabethan era to our own.

Suggested Activities to Support Learning

To support your child at home you could:
  • Visit Milton Keynes library and find out information about this time period.

Writing 

This half term our class text is The Devil and His Boy by Anthony Horowitz. During our English lessons we will be learning how to:
  • Write a playscript.
  • Use the organisational features of a playscript such as stage directions.
  • Use descriptive language to describe scenes.
  • Develop characters through actions and dialogue.

Suggested Activities to Support Learning

To support your child at home you could:
  • Watch theatre performances either live or online.
  • Read through and try to act out some playscripts.
  • Turn a scene from your favourite film into a playscript.

Maths

This half term we will be learning to:
  • Add and subtract fractions with different denominators.
  • Multiply fractions with integers.
  • Solve problems using fractions.
  • Understand the equivalence between some common fractions, decimals and percentages.

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 (numerator, denominator, equivalent, mixed number, improper, unit fractions)

 Science - Living Things and Their Habitats

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

This half term in music we will be:
  • Learning to recognise Blues music.
  • Learning to play the 12 bar Blues on different tuned instruments.
  • Learning where Blues music originated from.
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Suggested Activities to Support Learning

To support your child at home you could:​
  • Listen to music and clap or sing along.
  • Practise tapping out a beat and repeating it.
  • Buy a musical instrument to use at home.

PSHE

This half term in our Jigsaw lessons we will be learning about 'Relationships'.
We will be:
  • Learning about our own identities and individuality.
  • Learning about changes in friendships and how to negotiate and compromise during fall-outs.
  • Learning about feelings of attraction towards others.
  • Learning about feelings of jealousy.
  • Learning how to stay safe when using technology to communicate with friends.

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 - Islam

​This half term we will be learning:
  • Who Muhammad was and why he is important to Muslims.
  • How Muslims believe the Qur'an to be the word of God.
  • How Muhammad acts as a role model to Muslims.

 

Suggested Activities to Support Learning

To support your child at home you could:
  • Discuss different religions.
  • 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.