Welcome to Year 5 

The Team

Miss Scott
Year Lead
​Sycamore Class
Mrs Humphris
​Class Teacher
Elm Class
Tracey
​LSA
Mrs Shahid
​LSA
Steph Butler
​LSA

PE Days

Indoor PE
Miss Scott's Class: Mondays
Mrs Humphris' Class: Wednesdays
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Outdoor PE
Miss Scott's Class: Tuesdays
​Mrs Humphris' 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


​WB 9th November - Anti bullying week
13th November - Children In Need Day 
16th November  - Spelling Bee Class Quiz
26th November - Spelling Bee semi-final
27th November - November Bubble Birthdays Party 
7th December Home learning due in 
11th December - December Bubble Birthdays Party  
11th December -  Christmas Jumper Day 
11th December  - Christmas Lunch Day
WB 14th December - Bubble Christmas Pantomime
18th December - Last day of school

This Half Term

Project: Disaster in the USA!

This half term we will be :
  • Learning about natural disasters, their impact and how they occur.
  • Learning about plate tectonics and how they create mountains, earthquakes and volcanoes.
  • Comparing the landscape of the UK and the USA and considering why this makes the USA more prone to natural disasters.
  • Considering how people overcome the challenge of living in areas with natural disasters.

Suggested Activities to Support Learning

To support your child at home you could:
  • Research a specific natural disaster.
  • Carry out some experiments at home linked to natural disasters (look at this half term's home learning for some ideas).
  • Find out about natural disasters that have occurred closer to home.

Writing (Based on Floodland by Marcus Sedgwick)

This half term we will be learning to:
  • Write journey stories using description and suspense.
  • Build up tension and suspense.
  • Use inverted commas accurately.
  • Use embedded clauses within our work.
  • Use a range of sentence types to create exciting writing.

Suggested Activities to Support Learning

To support your child at home you could:
  • Read regularly and discuss new vocabulary and punctuation.
  • Use our google classroom page to see what new vocabulary we will be learning in class.
  • Read stories where characters go on a journey.
  • While it would help for your child to read chapters that we have read for a second time at home, please discourage your child from reading this text further than we have done in class. This is so that we can work on prediction and inference skills in our reading lessons.

Maths

This half term we will be learning to:
  • Read tables and graphs as well as create our own.
  • Answer questions about tables and graphs.
  • Understand multiples and factors.
  • Identify prime, square and cube numbers.
  • Understand what happens when we multiply or divide by 10, 100 or 1000.
  • Measure perimeter and area.

Suggested Activities to Support Learning

To support your child at home you could:
  • Continue to practise times tables using TT Rockstars (log ins are inside reading records)
  • Practise on Numbots (using your TTRockstars password) to become very quick with your addition and subtraction skills.
  • Play maths games online.
  • Practise using this half term's maths vocabulary (multiples, factors, prime, square, cube, perimeter, area).

 Science - Forces

This half term we will be learning to:
  •  Understanding that unsupported objects fall towards the Earth because of the force of gravity.
  • Identifying the effects of air resistance, water resistance and friction, that act between moving surfaces.
  • Recognising that some mechanisms including levers, pulleys and gears allow a smaller force to have a greater effect.
     

Suggested Activities to Support Learning

To support your child at home you could: ​
  • Talk about different forces you can observe in your home.
  • Go to a playground and discuss the different forces acting on your when you go on the swings, slide or roundabout.
  • Make your own Rube Goldberg machine using different types of forces.

Computing

Suggested Activities to Support Learning
This half term we will be learning to:
  • Use spreadsheets to record information.
  • Learn about the different functions of spreadsheets.
  • Use a spreadsheet to plan an event.
To support your child at home you could: ​
  • Discuss how you might use spreadsheets in your life.
  • Show your child how to access Excel or Google Sheets on your home computer and how it can be used.
  • Create a spreadsheet at home for a particular purpose e.g. recording how much reading they have done, recording pocket money savings or housework etc.
 

Art and Design

This half term, our art will be woven into other curriculum areas to inspire our writing. We will be creating our own images of natural disasters using different mediums such as charcoal and oil pastels.

Suggested Activities to Support Learning

To support your child at home you could:​
  • ​​Practise painting, sketching or pastelling with different colours.
  • Virtually visit some online art galleries and talk about what you find.
  • Have regular conversations about art that you enjoy.
  • Practise fine motor exercises with your hands.

Music

This half term in music we will be:
  • Listen to different body percussionists and identifying similar themes.
  • Creating our own music using body percussion.
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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 'Celebrating Difference'.
We will be:
  • Learning about different types of bullying and what to do about it.
  • Learning about and celebrating differences in culture across our school.
  • Understanding the impact that bullying behaviours, racism and other types of prejudice can have on people's lives and mental health.

Suggested Activities to Support Learning

To support your child at home you could:
  • Talk about your own experiences of the issues we are discussing in class.
  • Reinforce the messages we are giving in class by praising positive behaviours.
  • Remind your child about what to do if they feel they are being bullied.

RE - Sikhism

This half term in RE we will be:
  • ​Learning about the 5Ks of Sikhism.
  • Understanding the commitment a Sikh makes to follow their beliefs.

Suggested Activities to Support Learning

To support your child at home you could:
  • Discuss different religions.
  • Visit a local religious site such as a Sikh Gurdwara.
  • Talk about beliefs that you or your family hold.

PE

Our outdoor PE lessons take place on a Tuesday afternoon. During our outdoor PE sessions, we will be developing our netball skills.

Miss Scott's class have their indoor PE sessions on a Monday afternoon, and Mrs Humphris' class have their indoor PE sessions on a Wednesday afternoon. During our indoor PE sessions, we will be developing our gymnastics skills.

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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