Welcome to Year 5 

The Team

Miss Pollard
Year Lead
​Elm Class
Miss York
Teacher
​Sycamore Class
Mrs Archer
LSA
​Sycamore Class
Mrs Soden
​LSA
​Elm Class
Miss Butler
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 8th January- Back to school 
Monday 15th January- Volkswagen STEM week
Wednesday 17th January- Greek Ignite Day
Monday 5th February- Home learning due in 
Friday 16th February-  End of term

This Half Term

Project: Ancient Greece


This half term we will be learning :
  • Who were the Greeks and when did they live? 
  • What did Greeks believe? 
  • How was ancient Greece governed? 
  • Did the ancient Greeks give us democracy? 
  • How do Greek philosophers influence us today?
  • What Greeks do for us? 

Suggested Activities to Support Learning

To support your child at home you could:
  • Find out more about life during Ancient Greece 
  • Research the different Gods and Goddesses they believed in

Writing 

This half term our class text is Who let the Gods out by Maz Evans.
  • Write a Rags to Riches tale
  • Write a non-chronological report
  • Organise our writing into clear paragraphs.
  • Use commas to make the meaning clear.
  • Use dashes to add extra information.
  • Expand on a point and explain it clearly.

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.
  • Read non-fiction books

Maths

This half term we will be learning to:
  • Use the distributive law to solve multiplication problems.
  • Multiply 2 digit numbers with 2 digit numbers using a formal written method.
  • Divide using a formal written method
  • Divide with remainders
  • Solve problems with multiplication and division

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 (multiple, factor, area, perimeter)

 Science - Mixtures and Separation

This half term we will be learning:​
  • To describe mixtures 
  • To explain the process of sieving and filtering
  • To describe solutions and how they can be be identified
  • To identify which factors affect the time taken to dissolve
  • To describe the process of evaporation

Suggested Activities to Support Learning

To support your child at home you could: ​
  • Investigate different mixtures  and how they can be separated 
  • Use a sieve to investigate whether something can be separated or not

Computing- Data handling

Suggested Activities to Support Learning
This half term we will be learning:
  • To identify and how and why data is collected from space
  • To read and calculate numbers using binary code
  • To identify the computer architecture of the Mars Rover 
  • To use simple operations to calculate bit patterns
  • To represent binary as text
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 thinking about how we can improve our mastery of Art and Design techniques
. We will be learning to:
  • To apply observational drawing skills to interpret forms accurately 
  • To apply composition skills to develop a drawing into a print 
  • To apply an understanding of architecture to design a building
  • To extend design ideas through research and sketchbook use
  • To explore and evaluate the intention of a design

Suggested Activities to Support Learning

To support your child at home you could:​
  • Investigate continuous line drawings
  • Explore different opinions family members have around a piece of art work

Music

This half term in music we will be learning:
  • ​To sing a traditional African song unaccompanied 
  • To use tuned percussion to play a chord progression 
  • To use vocals or percussion to perform a piece of music as an ensemble
  • To play call and response rhythms using percussion instruments
  • To create an eight beat percussion break to play within a performance

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 'Dreams and Goals'.
We will be:
  • Considering what our future dreams and goals might be.
  • Considering different jobs and their salaries.
  • Consider what steps I might need to take to be able to do my dream job.
  • Learning about dreams and goals of people from different cultures and how their dreams and goals might differ from my own.

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.
  • Talk to them about how you made decisions along your career path.

RE - Judaism

This half term in RE we will be:
  • ​Learning the key features of worship in Judaism
  • Understand the significance of prayer
  • Explore how faith is expressed through worship

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 hockey skills including dribbling, passing and shooting. 
​During our indoor PE sessions we will be learning Indoor fitness.
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 the names of different shapes and colours.
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.