Welcome to Year 5 

The Team

Miss Pollard
Year Lead
Elm Class
Miss York
Class Teacher
​Sycamore Class
Emily
LSA
Steph
LSA
Leigh-Anne
LSA
PE Days:
Elm Class:  Monday and Wednesday
​Sycamore Class: Monday and Wednesday
Children come to school in PE kit on PE days. If your child cannot remove earrings themselves, please ensure they are not worn on PE days.

Useful Resources

Key Dates
  • 1st November- Back to School
  • 6th and 8th November- Parents Evening
  • 15th November- Books at Bedtime
  • 17th November - Children in Need non-uniform
  • 1st December - Non-uniform, raffle donation
  • 11th December- Home learning due in
  • 19th December- Christmas carols on the playground
  • 20th December- Christmas Panto
  • 22nd December- Last day of term
  • 8th January- Back to school

During Term 2

Project: Disaster in the USA

 This half term we will be : 
 -Name and identify how Fold , Fault-block, Dome,
volcanic and Plateau Mountains are formed
- Tornado Alley is in East cost of North America
-  San Andreas fault is located in California
- Know that there are 12 tectonics plates on Earth,
that move over the surface
 -That people living in locations prone to natural
disasters make perorations to reduce the impact
- That Hawaii is made up of volcanos

Suggested Activities to Support Learning

To support your child at home you could:
  • Use an atlas to identify different states of America
  • Find out about different natural disasters and the damage they can bring
  • Find out about how different natural disasters occur

Writing (Based on Floodland)

This half term we will be learning to:
  • Write a quest tale
  • Use embedded clauses
  • Write an explanation text

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.
  • 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:
  • Identify common factors and multiples
  • Recognise prime, square and cube numbers
  • Multiply and divide by 10, 100 and 1000
  • Find equivalent fractions
  • Compare and order fractions
  • Add and subtract fractions

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.
  • Use Doodlemaths regularly.
  • Review our calculation methods on the Maths page of our website.
  • Practise the KIRFs regularly (these are available on the Google classroom page).

Science - Properties of materials

This half term we will be learning to:
  • Understand the different hardness of materials
  • Know the terms opaque, translucent and transparent
  • Determine the conductivity of different materials
  • Demonstrate reversible changes
  • Demonstrate irreversible changes of mixing, burning and rusting

Suggested Activities to Support Learning

To support your child at home you could: ​
  • Investigate different materials
  • Categorise materials at home

Computing

Suggested Activities to Support Learning
This half term we will be learning to:
  • Create and plan a soundtrack using scratch 
  • Program a soundtrack for a specific purpose​
To support your child at home you could: ​
  • Discuss how computing has changed in your life time.
  • Talk about the role computers have in your life or at work.
  • Spend time talking about the importance of staying safe on the internet.
 

Art and Design

This half term we will be learning to:
  • Compare different installation arts
  • Investigate the effect of 3D art
  • ​Design and create a piece of box art

Suggested Activities to Support Learning

To support your child at home you could:​
  • ​​Visit the MK art gallery
  • See what pieces of art you can spot when out and about

Music

This half term we will be:
  • Understanding the history of Blues music ​
  • Play a Blues chord
  • Play the 12-bar Blues
  • Play the Blues scale

Suggested Activities to Support Learning

To support your child at home you could:​
  • Listen to Blues music
  • Discuss vocabulary linked to music e.g. crescendo, dynamics, ostinato, pitch and rhythm.

PSHE

This half term in our Jigsaw lessons we will be learning about 'Celebrating differences'.
We will be learning to:
  • Understand that cultural differences sometimes cause conflict.
  •  Understanding what racism is.
  •  Understanding that name-calling and spreading rumours can be bullying behaviours.
  •  Understand the difference between direct and indirect bullying.
  •  Understand how my life may be different to the lives of those in developing countries.
  •  Understand a culture different to my own.

Suggested Activities to Support Learning

To support your child at home you could:
  • Set up a worry box at home for your child to share any of their worries or concerns with you.
  • Talk regularly about emotions and relationships with people you know.
  • Talk positively about yourself and help your child to identify their own values too.
  • Identify rights and responsibilities of each person in your home e.g. rights to personal privacy, responsibilities in terms of housework or homework etc

RE

This half term in RE we will be learning about Muhammed and is importance to Muslims We will be:
  • Finding out who Muhammed is
  • Learn about his impact
  • Understand the importance of the Qur'an

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, we will be focusing on our fitness.

During our indoor PE sessions, we will be focusing on gymnastics.
PE is on Mondays and Wednesdays for both classes.

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 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.

  • Take part in Junior Parkrun - a free, timed 2km run every Sunday morning at 9am.











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French

Suggested Activities to Support Learning
To support your child at home you could:
  • Practise some of the phrases we have been using at school.
  • Listen to French songs.
In our French lessons this half term we will be learning how to say the date.