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 3rd March - World Book Day
Tuesday 8th March - Parents' Evening
Thursday 10th March - Parents' Evening
​Monday 28th March - Home Learning due in

This Half Term

Project: Our Planet


This half term we will be :
  • Learning about different geographic features of our planet such as the equator and tropics.
  • Finding out about different biomes, their climates and how life has adapted to these biomes.
  • Understanding how the Earth's axial tilt affects seasonal changes across the globe.
  • Finding out about different time zones and why they are important.
  • Considering steps we can take to protect our planet from environmental damage and climate change.

Suggested Activities to Support Learning

To support your child at home you could:
  • Watch 'Our Planet' or 'Planet Earth' with David Attenborough to find out about different biomes.
  • Spend time looking at atlases or on Google Earth and discussing different continents and countries as well as their climates.

Writing 

This half term our class text is Survivors by David Long.  In our English lessons, we will be learning to:
  • Write a warning tale.
  • Use personification and pathetic fallacy to create an atmosphere in our writing.
  • Punctuate dialogue accurately.
  • Use different cohesive devices to move the action on.

Suggested Activities to Support Learning

To support your child at home you could:
  • Read regularly and discuss new vocabulary and punctuation.
  • Practise writing at home and then editing the work.
  • Practise correcting mistakes in a piece of writing.
  • Practise using a thesaurus to find synonyms for words.

Maths

This half term we will be learning to:
  • Identify equivalent fractions.
  • Simplify fractions.
  • Add and subtract fractions.
  • Convert between improper (top heavy) fractions and mixed number fractions.

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 - Properties of Materials

This half term we will be learning:​
  • To identify thermal insulators and conduct investigations to test these.
  • To separate mixtures using our understanding of different materials.
  • To identify reversible and irreversible changes.

Suggested Activities to Support Learning

To support your child at home you could: ​
  • Practise cooking at home and discuss the purpose of each ingredient e.g. eggs to bind ingredients.
  • Discuss the reversible and irreversible changes that take place when certain ingredients are cooked or frozen.

Computing

Suggested Activities to Support Learning
This half term we will be learning:
  • The difference between a sprite and a background.
  • To create an algorithm using 'Scratch'.
  • To test and debug a code.
To support your child at home you could: ​
  • Discuss how you use the internet in your life.
  • Talk about safety on the internet and what not to share.
  • Discuss 'fake news' - particularly in YouTube videos and encourage your child to check with you if they aren't sure.
 

Art and Design

This half term, we will be:
  • Designing and making our own soap sculptures.
  • Creating Willow pattern plates using our understanding of tints and shades.
  • Creating still-life drawings using shading techniques.
  • Understanding how Paul Cezanne influenced the shift to modern art and try out his style of using short angular brush strokes.

Suggested Activities to Support Learning

To support your child at home you could:​
  • Visit MK Gallery and discuss the different styles of art.
  • Look at art you can find on the internet and discuss which ones you like.
  • Try out different art styles at home.

Music

This half term in music we will be:
  • Learning to sing a traditional African song (Shosholoza) a cappella.
  • Using tuned  percussion instruments to accompany our song, understanding the 4 beat rhythm.
  • Learning how to play a djembe drum, using a metronome to keep a pulse.
  • Working in groups to develop our performance with an eight beat break.
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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 'Healthy Me'.
We will be:
  • Learning to identify the health risks associated with smoking and misusing alcohol.
  • Learning how to put into practice basic emergency first-aid procedures, including the recovery position.
  • Exploring how the media and celebrity culture promotes certain body types.
  • Discovering the importance of having a healthy relationship with food.
  • Identifying lifestyle choices we can make to be healthy and happy.

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 - Buddhism

​This half term we will be learning:
· Who Buddha was and why he is important to Buddhists today.
· Some of the core beliefs and teachings of Buddhism.
· About the Four Noble Truths and the Eightfold Path.
· About the Buddhist beliefs of karma and reincarnation.
· Buddhist symbols and what they represent
 

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 netball skills including throwing, passing, catching and scoring. 
​During our indoor PE sessions we will be learning gymnastic skills including press and go movements that spring our bodies forwards.
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 Saisons' (The Seasons).
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.