Welcome to Year 5 

The Team

Miss Scott
Year Lead
​Sycamore Class
Miss Flynn
Class Teacher
​Elm Class
Ms Rose
​Class Teacher
Elm Class
Mrs Shahid
​LSA
Tracey
​LSA
Steph Butler
​LSA

PE Days

Indoor PE
Miss Scott's Class: Mondays
Elm Class: Wednesdays
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Outdoor PE
Miss Scott's Class: Wednesdays
Elm Class 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 24th June - Year 5 Sports Day (no spectators but PE kits needed)
21st July - End of year school reports sent out
22nd July - Last day before summer holidays

This Half Term

Project: All Along the River


This half term we will be :
  • Learning the names of UK rivers
  • Finding out about our local river and using mapping technology to follow it from source to mouth
  • Learning the names of the main features of a river
  • Learning how a river is formed and how it shapes the environment
  • Learning about flooding and flood defences in our local area

Suggested Activities to Support Learning

To support your child at home you could:
  • Visit some of our local rivers and take photographs.
  • Use Google maps to look at different rivers across the UK and follow them.

Writing 

This half term our class text (Who Let the Gods Out) will link to our reading curriculum. In our English lessons, we will be learning to:
  • Write poetry using personification and metaphors.
  • Use colons to start a list.
  • Write in a persuasive style.
  • Edit and improve our work based on feedback.

Suggested Activities to Support Learning

To support your child at home you could:
  • Read regularly and discuss new vocabulary and punctuation.
  • Read persuasive texts and discuss the features and language.
  • 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 place value in decimal numbers with up to 3 decimal places.
  • Compare and order decimals.
  • Write decimals as their equivalent fractions and percentages.
  • Add and subtract decimals.
  • Multiply and divide decimals by 10, 100 and 1000.
  • Identify, compare and order angles.
  • Measure angles using a protractor in degrees.
  • Name different types of triangles and quadrilaterals.​
  • Calculate lengths and angles in 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 (decimals, tenths, hundredths, percentage, acute, obtuse, reflex)

 Science - Properties of Materials

This half term we will be learning:​
  • How to sort materials into electrical conductors and insulators.
  • How to build an electrical circuit.
  • How to test whether a material is a good thermal insulator.
  • How to sepate mixtures.
  • About reversibly and irreversible changes in materials.
  • About materials that can and can't dissolve.

Suggested Activities to Support Learning

To support your child at home you could: ​
  • Find out about different areas of science your child is interested in.
  • Do some cooking together and discuss why wooden spoons are used for stirring, why metal pans are so hot to touch and how some of the changes occurring to the food are irreversible.

Computing

Suggested Activities to Support Learning
This half term we will be learning:
  • What a network is and how computers share messages.
  • How networks link together to form what we know as the internet.
  • How to create media for a website.
  • To understand the principles of ownership and sharing on the internet.
  • How to identify reliable sources of information on the internet.
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 impressionism. We will be looking at Monet's paintings and other impressionist artists and learning to:
  • Explore using tints and shades to create different colours.
  • Explore the use of shadow and reflection in our work.

Suggested Activities to Support Learning

To support your child at home you could:​
  • Take photographs of local waterways to inspire ideas.
  • 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:
  • Linking our learning to our project by listening to sounds from rivers and identifying sounds we life.
  • Composing our own music based on the journey of a river, thinking about parts of the music that should be louder or quieter.
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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 'Changing Me'
We will be:
  • Discussing self-image and how the media can influence our ideas around what is healthy or normal.
  • Learning about changes that our bodies go through during puberty.
  • Learning about the process of conception.

Suggested Activities to Support Learning

To support your child at home you could:
  • Talk to them about what they are learning in school.
  • Discuss your own experiences of puberty with your child.
  • Answer questions that they may have about this topic.

RE - Christianity

This half term in RE we will be:
  • ​Learning how Christians may show their commitment to God.
  • Learning about some famous Christians who showed their commitment to God.
  • Learning about confirmation ceremonies/adult Baptism

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 PE sessions this half term, we will be practising our athletics skills ready for the Year 5 Sports Day!
We will also be developing our OAA skills, using compasses and maps to support us.
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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