Welcome to Year 5 

The Team

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

Key Dates

Week beginning 12th October - parent telephone appointments (no face to face parents evening)
​Tuesday 20th October - class discos
Thursday 22nd October - photo day
Thursday 22nd October - last day before half term

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This Half Term

Project: The Space Race

This half term we will be :
  • Finding out about differences in ideologies between the USA and the Soviet Union during the cold war.
  • Finding out about differences in East and West Germany during the cold war.
  • Discovering how the space race eased tensions between nations.
  • Discovering how joint interests in space lead to a mutual respect between two nations.

Suggested Activities to Support Learning

To support your child at home you could:
  • Find out about the Cold war
  • Research the moon landing
  • Find out about future plans for space travel
  • Visit the National Space Museum

Writing (Based on The Jamie Drake Equation)

This half term we will be learning to:
  • Write a news report using the appropriate features.
  • Use direct and indirect speech.
  • Use expanded noun phrases.
  • Use fronted adverbials.

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.
  • Watch newsround and read some of the news articles on their website.
  • Visit https://www.vocabularyninja.co.uk/ and use their word of the day resources to expand your vocabulary.

Maths

This half term we will be learning to:
  • Read, write and order numbers up to 1 million.
  • Round numbers to their nearest 10, 100 or 1000.
  • Read Roman numerals up to 10,000.
  • Add and subtract using an efficient column method.
  • Practise our KIRF target (our times tables).

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.

Science

This half term we will be learning to:
  • Name the planets in our solar system in order from the sun.
  • Identify some key characteristics about the planets.
  • Describe the movement of the Earth and other planets relative to the Sun.
  • Describe the movement of the moon relative to the Sun.
  • Describe the moon's phases and explain how these occur.
  • Explain day and night as well as the seasons by learning about the planet's axial tilt, orbit and rotations.
  • Understand how scientists' understanding of our solar system has changed over time from a geocentric to a heliocentric model.

Suggested Activities to Support Learning

To support your child at home you could: ​
  • Find out about different planets in our solar system.
  • Keep a moon diary to record phases of the moon.
  • Go out after dark and star gaze.
  • Talk about the position of the sun at different times of day and discuss why the sun may be lower on the horizon or set earlier in the day at different times of year.

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 we will be:
  • Looking at artwork by Linda Caverley
  • Creating artwork using different textiles.
  • Experimenting with complementing colours.

Suggested Activities to Support Learning

To support your child at home you could:​
  • ​​Practise painting with different colours.
  • Practise weaving patterns.
  • Find similar artwork to look at and discuss.
  • Practise fine motor exercises with your hands.

Music

Our music lessons will take place in Autumn 2. Check back then to find out what our year 5 music curriculum will include!
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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.
  • Watch videos of chime bars being played.
  • Buy a musical instrument to use at home.

PSHE

This half term in our Jigsaw lessons we will be learning about 'Being Me In My World'.
We will be:
  • Thinking about how school helps us to achieve.
  • Considering what our rights and responsibilities are in our school.
  • Understanding how we can contribute to a group effort and function better as a whole.
  • Understanding why our school benefits from the ROOTS and how we can help each other to follow them.

Suggested Activities to Support Learning

To support your child at home you could:
  • Talk about rules you have in your home, and why you have these rules.
  • Talk about how behaviours can positively or negatively affect others.
  • Work on team building efforts where you are required to work together to achieve something e.g. Lego, jigsaw puzzles.

RE

Our RE learning will take place in Autumn 2. Check back on this page in Autumn 2 to find out about what our RE learning will cover.

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 football 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 a dance sequence linked to space.

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.
  • Visit junior Parkrun on a Saturday.







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