Welcome to Year 5 

The Team

Mrs Lovegood
Year Lead
​Sycamore Class
Mrs Pantziarka
​Class Teacher
Elm Class
Miss Scoggins
Class Teacher
​Elm Class
Mrs Baker
Learning Support Assistant

Key Dates

5th and 7th March 2019- Parent's evenings
7th March- World Book Day 
11th March- Science week
​2nd April  - Year group production (2:30pm and 6pm)
4th April-School Disco
5th  April Home learning assembly 

PE with KITS Academy will take place on Thursday and outdoor PE with class teacher will take place on a Friday every week.

This Half Term

Project: The Victorians

This half term we will be learning to:
  • ​​Explore the effect the railway had on Victorian people
  • Compare trains from the Victorian era to modern trains now
  • Understand what impact railways had on Wolverton
  • Explore and understand Brunel's career

Suggested Activities to Support Learning

To support your child at home you could:
  • Research the Victorians​ and bring in an interesting fact you have found.
  • Visit your local library and look for information texts on the Victorians.
  • Take a look at the Primary History KS2 page for some useful information on the Victorians and railways

Writing (Based on Street Child by Berlie Doherty)

This half term we will be learning to:
  • Understand the structure of a non-fiction guide
  • Write a guide to railways using the Talk for Writing structure
  • Understand how the railways changed different people's lives
  • Write a diary entry from the point of view of someone affected by the railways
  • Plan and write an advert promoting railway use

Suggested Activities to Support Learning

To support your child at home you could:
  • Visit the local library to find information texts about The Victorians.
  • Take a trip to Milton Keynes Museum for a fantastic and authentic experience of Victorian life and inventions.
  • Visit the BBC Primary history website here

Maths

This half term we will be learning to:
  • Compare and order fractions whose denominators are all multiples of the same number
  •  Add and subtract fractions with the same denominator and denominators that are multiples of the same number
  • Round decimals with 2 decimal places to the nearest whole number and to 1 decimal place
  • Read and write decimal numbers as fractions
  • Read, write, order and compare numbers with up to 3 decimal places
  • Recognise the per cent symbol (%) and understand that per cent relates to “number of parts per 100”, and write percentages as a fraction with denominator 100, and as a decimal fraction

Suggested Activities to Support Learning

To support your child at home you could:
  • Use times table videos to embed fluency​.
  • Count in different multiples any time and any place!
  • Use cake or pizza and divide up equally into varying fractions
  • Play the newspaper fraction dancing game. Find the rules here
  • Use Times Table Rockstars (ttrockstars.com).
  • Go on Purple Mash and play some maths games to enhance fluency

Science

This half term we will be learning to:
  • Understand properties and changes in materials
  • Investigate magnetism
  • Investigate thermal conductors and insulators
  • Understand the term dissolving through experiments

Suggested Activities to Support Learning

To support your child at home you could: ​
  • Visit your local library and read books on properties and materials
  • Find some facts out about magnetism and make a poster on Purple Mash
  • Gather various materials in your home and see if you can sort them using a venn diagram. Can you come up with a way to classify them?

Computing

Suggested Activities to Support Learning
This half term we will be learning to:
  • Review and analyse a computer game
  • Design our own game having reviewed successful elements of existing games
  • Write informative instructions to allow others to play it
  • Evaluate our own and our peers' games to help improve our/their designs for the future
To support your child at home you could: ​
  • Explore the game creator software on Purple Mash - 2DIY
  • Play puzzle games to enhance problem solving skills
  • Ask your teacher to set you a 2do on Purple Mash
 

Art and Design

This half term we will be learning to:
  • Create sketches of Victorian children working in the mills and the mines.
  • Develop our sketching skills with a focus on tone
  • Use charcoal as an art medium and mastering the technique of smudging to add dramatic effect.
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Suggested Activities to Support Learning

To support your child at home you could:​
  • ​​Practise drawing at home
  • Watch videos on youtube that offer a step-by-step guide to sketching objects
  • Look at pictures of Victorian children working in the mills and mines - can you recreate this picture using a variety of different techniques?
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Music

This half term we will be learning to:​
  • Use our voices in a variety of different ways
  • Singing regularly using Out of the Ark and Active Music
  • Play in time to a steady beat.
  • Perform as part of a group.
  • Sing as part of a group.
  • Understand how their contribution in singing affects the overall performance.
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Suggested Activities to Support Learning

To support your child at home you could:​
  • Sing regularly 
  • Listen to music and sing along
  • Try to identify different types of instruments that make up a piece of music
  • Learn performance music when you have been given this by your teacher

PSHE

This half term we will be continuing with our Jigsaw scheme of work.  We will continue on with our 'Dreams and Goal's unit and then move onto the 'Healthy Me' unit. We will discuss what contributes to a healthy lifestyle and the choices we can make.

Suggested Activities to Support Learning

To support your child at home you could:
  • Discuss your child's dreams and goals with them
  • Have a look at what steps your child might need to take to achieve their dreams and goals and help them take these steps
  • Talk about what a healthy lifestyle might look like
  • Go for a run, jog or do any sort of activity to increase your heart rate. You might even want to sign up for a park run and see if you can beat your times each week.

RE & PSHE

This half term we will be learning to:
  • Find out who Buddha was and why he is important to Buddists today
  • Find out about the core beliefs and teachings of Buddism
  • To learn about the Four Noble Truths and the Eightfold Path
  • To find out where Buddists worship and the role of symbols within worship

Suggested Activities to Support Learning

To support your child at home you could:
  • Discuss different religions.
  • Visit a local religious site.
  • Find out about Buddist people and their beliefs.

PE

KITS Academy will be teaching year 5  this half term. 
  • For the first half we will be learning how to play badminton. 
  • We will also be learning how to develop our invasion games skills in tag rugby

Suggested Activities to Support Learning

To support your child at home you could:
  • ​Research about the sport of rugby
  • Look at clips of rugby in action
  • Watch the 6 Nations tournament on TV
  • Look at other sports where balance and co-ordination are important.






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