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 13th January - Victorian Day (year 5 children invited to dress up)
Thursday 27th January - Jack and the Beanstalk Pantomime (at school)
​Monday 7th February - Home Learning due

This Half Term

Project: Victorian Children


This half term we will be :
  • Learning about how the Industrial Revolution changed cities across the UK.
  • Learning about how childhood changed throughout the Victorian era with the introduction of the Education Act.
  • Learning about jobs that children did during the Victorian era.
  • Learning about why people moved into the cities during the Industrial Revolution.
  • Comparing our lives today with the lives of Victorian children.

Suggested Activities to Support Learning

To support your child at home you could:
  • Find out more about life during the Victorian era.
  • Visit Milton Keynes museum, where they have a model of a Victorian classroom.

Writing 

This half term our class text is Street Child by Berlie Doherty. In our English lessons, we will be learning to:
  • Write an information text.
  • 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
  • Calculate the perimeter of rectilinear shapes.
  • Calculate the area of rectilinear shapes.

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 - Properties of Materials

This half term we will be learning:​
  • To test the properties of different materials.
  • To consider how different properties of materials make them suitable for specific uses.
  • To understand thermal and electrical conductivity.
  • How to separate mixtures.
  • About 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:
  • To create vector images using simple shapes.
  • To use tools such as Google Drawings.
  • To use digital literacy tools such as Google Docs to publish a piece of work.
  • About internet safety.
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 to use print in our art work. We will be learning to:
  • Explore different shapes and how they tesselate.
  • Use lino printing techniques.
  • Create patterns that can be repeated.
  • Recreate work in the style of William Morris.

Suggested Activities to Support Learning

To support your child at home you could:​
  • Try potato printing.
  • Look for repeated patterns in your home e.g. on curtains, bedsheets or clothes that have a print. See if you can recreate the pattern.

Music

This half term in music we will be:
  • Creating Victorian compositions in the style of street callers
  • Learning about musical instruments and styles that were popular during the Victorian era
  • Using percussion instruments to create our own music.
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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 '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 - Sikhism

This half term in RE we will be:
  • ​Learning about different Sikh stories.
  • Learning about how stories can help us in our lives.
  • Recognising that stories can be an important way of expressing belief.

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 different balances, jumps and rolls.
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.