Welcome to Year 5 

The Team

Miss Pollard
Year Lead
​Elm Class
Miss York
Teacher
Sycamore Class
Miss Hegarty
LSA
​Sycamore Class
Miss Soden 
​LSA
​Elm Class
Miss Davies
LSA
​Elm Class

PE Days

Outdoor PE
Miss York's Class: Mondays
Miss Pollard's Class: Mondays
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Indoor PE
Miss York'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

Monday 15th April- Home learning launched
Thursday 2nd March- World Book Day
Tuesday 7th March- Parents Evening
Thursday 9th March- Parents Evening
Friday 17th March- Red Nose Day
Monday 20th March- Home learning due in
Thursday 23rd March- World Maths Day
Tuesday 28th March- Easter Disco

This Half Term

Project: Industrial Revolution

This half term we will be :
  • Learning about what the Industrial Revolution was, and why it was so important
  • Finding out about the impact of railways
  • Understanding why people moved to cities
  • Finding out about the impact of inventions
  • Comparing Victorian London to seaside towns

Suggested Activities to Support Learning

To support your child at home you could:
  • Use Google Maps to look at how where you live has changed over time
  • Investigate how something in your home was invented

Writing 

This half term our class text is  The adventures of the New Cut Gang by Phillip Pullman.  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:
  • Solve problems with multiplication
  • Short division
  • Divide with remainders

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:
  • Use selection in physical computing
  • Use crumble controllers
  • Connect and control different componenets
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.
 

Design & Technology

This half term, we will be:
  • Designing and making our own bridges
  • Understanding the diffence between an Arch, beam and a Truss bridge
  • Use wood, saws and files to create a structure

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:​​
  • Performing  a looped body percussion rhythm; keeping in time within a  group.
  • Use loops to create a whole piece of music, ensuring that the different aspects of music work together.
  • Play the first section of ‘Somewhere Over the Rainbow’ with accuracy,
  • Choose a suitable fragment of music and be able to play it along to the backbeat. 
  • Perform a piece with some structure and two different loops.
  • Create a 'remix' using loops.

Suggested Activities to Support Learning

To support your child at home you could:​
  • Listen to 'looped' music and clap or sing along - dance, pop. See if you can recognise any loops used in songs currently.
  • Practice tapping out a beat and repeating it.
  • Use chrome Music Lab or Indredibox to create some digital musical loops.

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 how to introduce our family.
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.