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 4th November - Gangsta Granny theatre trip
Monday 6th December - Home learning due
Thursday 16th December - Outdoor Carols by Candlelight

This Half Term

Project: Disaster in the USA


This half term we will be :
  • Learning about the geography of the USA
  • Discovering why some places are more prone to natural disasters.
  • Learning about tectonic plates and how these have shaped our landscape.
  • Learning about the causes, effects and economic impacts of different natural disasters.
  • Learning about how people overcome the challenges of natural disasters.

Suggested Activities to Support Learning

To support your child at home you could:
  • Find out about different natural disasters that occur across the world.
  • Look at photographs of different landscapes and talk about what shaped them.

Writing 

This half term our class text is Floodland by Marcus Sedgwick. In our English lessons, we will be learning to:
  • Write quest stories with a clear story structure.
  • Use suspense within our stories.
  • Write clearly in paragraphs.
  • Use inverted commas to indicate speech.

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.

Maths

This half term we will be learning to:
  • Interpret charts, line graphs and two way tables.
  • Read and answer questions about timetables.
  • Identify multiples, factors and common factors.
  • Identify prime, square and cube numbers.
  • Understand what happens when we multiply or divide by 10, 100 or 1000.

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, prime, square, cube)

 Science - Forces

This half term we will be learning:​
  • That gravity is a force that acts between all objects.
  • To identify different forces including friction, air resistance and water resistance.
  • To explore the effects of different forces.
  • To use scientific equipment safely and to measure accurately.
  • To design investigations that are reliable.

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.
  • Visit a local park with playground equipment and discuss the forces that act upon your body as you play.

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 how to use texture in our art work. We will be learning to:
  • Explore using different materials to create texture.
  • Experiment with layering and mixing paint with sand.
  • Create artwork that is 3D.
  • Plan a design and consider what materials we could use to create a desired effect.
  • Explore the use of shadow and reflection in our work.

Suggested Activities to Support Learning

To support your child at home you could:​
  • Look at artwork that has been created of different natural disasters.
  • Practise mixing paints at home with different materials to create textured paint.

Music

This half term in music we will be:
  • Learning to sing together, in a harmony and in rounds.
  • Learning to perform in a group, duet or solo.
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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 Differences'
We will be:
  • Understanding how cultural differences can sometimes cause conflict.
  • Learning about racism and bullying and how we can put a stop to it.
  • Understand how my life may be different to the lives of others.
  • Understand a culture different to 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.

RE - Christianity

This half term in RE we will be:
  • ​Learning about different accounts of the birth of Jesus.
  • Understanding how 'true' can mean different things for different people.
  • Learning about the importance of Jesus to Christians.

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 vegetables.
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.