Welcome to Year 5 

The Team

Miss Scott
Year Lead
​Sycamore Class
Mr Fay
Class Teacher
​Elm Class
Miss Wilkins
LSA
​Sycamore Class
Miss Hegarty
LSA
​Elm Class

PE Days

Indoor PE
Mondays
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Outdoor PE
Miss Scott's Class: Fridays
Mr Fay's Class: Wednesdays
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 9th September 4pm - Year 5 Induction on Zoom
​Week beginning 11th October - Parents Evening 
Monday ​October 11th - Home Learning due in

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This Half Term

Project: The Space Race

This half term we will be :
  • Finding out about opposing political views in post-war Europe.
  • Finding out about the cold war and what changes this caused in Europe.
  • Finding out why space endeavours became so competitive and how this drove technology forward.
  • Researching the different achievements of Russian cosmonauts and American astronauts.
  • Exploring how the space race lead to more international endeavours.

Suggested Activities to Support Learning

To support your child at home you could:
  • Research this time period.
  • Find out about different space endeavours during this time period.
  • Find out about space endeavours today.

Writing (Based on The Jamie Drake Equation)

This half term we will be learning to:
  • Write newspaper reports.
  • Use passive voice.
  • Use inverted commas to write quotes.
  • Explore the different features of newspaper reports.

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:
  • Read, write, order and compare numbers with up to 6 digits.
  • Partition numbers.
  • Represent numbers in different ways.
  • Read and write Roman numerals up to 1000.
  • Count backwards into negative numbers.

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 - Space

This half term we will be learning to:
  • Name the planets in our solar system.
  • Understand that the Earth rotates and orbits the Sun.
  • Understand the moon's orbit around the Earth.

Suggested Activities to Support Learning

To support your child at home you could: ​
  • Find out more about a particular planet.
  • Use a telescope to identify a planet in the night sky.

Computing

Suggested Activities to Support Learning
This half term we will be learning to:
  • Identify different types of computer systems.
  • Understand how computers communicate with each other.
  • Understand how information is transferred over the internet.
  • Identify the role that computer systems have in our lives.
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:
  • Sew using different types of stitches.
  • Thread a needle.
  • Sew on a button or sequin.
  • Design and make our own embroidery square.

Suggested Activities to Support Learning

To support your child at home you could:​
  • ​​Practise different stitches at home.
  • Try out similar crafts such as cross-stitching or embroidery.
  • Practise different sewing skills such as sewing on a button.

Music

This half term we will be:
  • Listening and reflecting on a piece of orchestral music
  • Finding out about the composer Gustav Holst
  • Creating our own piece of music using voice
  • Perform as an ensemble
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Suggested Activities to Support Learning

To support your child at home you could:​
  • Listen to music by the composer Gustav Holst
  • 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 'Being Me'.
We will be learning to:
  • Identify our own strengths.
  • Set reasonable personal goals and targets.
  • Identify our rights and responsibilities.
  • Make choices about our own behaviour.
  • Understand how democracy works in a school community and how I can take part in this.

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 Sikhism. We will be:
  • Finding out about the Five K's.
  • Learning about the Gurdwara and why this is a place of importance to Sikhs.
  • Finding out about Sikh ceremonies.

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.
  • Visit a Sikh Gurdwara (there is one in Oldbrook).

PE

During our outdoor PE sessions, we will be focusing on our football skills.

During our indoor PE sessions, we will be focusing on movement and coordination in dance.

Miss Scott's class have PE on Mondays and Fridays.
Mr Fay's class have PE on Mondays and Wednesdays.

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.
  • Practise your football skills at the park or in the garden.
  • 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 the
​names of different fruits.