Welcome to Year 5 

The Team

Miss Scott
Year Lead
​Sycamore Class
Ms Rose
​​Class Teacher
Elm Class
Miss Flynn
Class Teacher
​Elm Class
Thoura
​LSA
​Elm Class
Tracey
​LSA
​Elm Class
Kerry
LSA
​Sycamore Class
Jane
​​LSA
​Sycamore Class

PE Days

Indoor PE
Miss Scott's Class: Mondays
Mrs Rose/Miss Flynn's Class: Wednesdays
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Outdoor PE
Miss Scott's Class: Wednesdays
​Mrs Rose/Miss Flynn's Class: Thursdays

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

Week beginning 10th May Parent Video Introduction to Accelerated Reader
Week beginning 17th May Reading Parent Evening Slots​
Monday ​17th May - Home Learning due in

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This Half Term

Project: The Anglo-Saxons

This half term we will be :
  • Finding out about different types of settlements during this time period.
  • Finding out about how the different regions of Britain were formed.
  • Finding out about the struggle between the Anglo-Saxons and the Vikings.
  • Finding out about how beliefs and traditions changed during this time period.

Suggested Activities to Support Learning

To support your child at home you could:
  • Research this time period.
  • Look at the Bayeux Tapestry online and learn about what it taught us about this time period.

Writing (Based on Beowulf by Michael Morpurgo)

This half term we will be learning to:
  • Read, write and perform playscripts.
  • Use parenthesis in the form of commas, brackets and dashes.
  • Use a wider range of vocabulary to enhance our writing.
  • Organise our writing into paragraphs and create cohesion between them.
  • Write a 'defeating the monster' tale.

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.
  • While it would be helpful for your child to read chapters for a second time in school, please discourage your child from reading this text further than we have done in class. This is so that we can work on prediction and inference skills in class.

Maths

This half term we will be learning to:
  • Compare and order fractions.
  • Add and subtract fractions.
  • Multiply fractions by an integer.
  • Calculate fractions of quantities.
  • Read, write, order and compare decimals with up to 3 decimal places.
  • Understand decimals as fractions.
  • Understand percentages as decimals and 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.
  • Play maths games online.
  • 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:
  • Compare and group together materials based on their properties.
  • Identify thermal and electrical conductors.
  • Describe how to recover a substance from a solution.
  • Use knowledge of solids, liquids and gases to be able to separate a mixture.
  • Understand which changes are reversible and which are irreversible.

Suggested Activities to Support Learning

To support your child at home you could: ​
  • Have a go at carrying out your own experiments at home to test properties of materials.
  • Practise using key vocabulary words to describe properties e.g. flexible, rigid, transparent, magnetic, opaque.

Computing

Suggested Activities to Support Learning
This half term we will be using coding to create our own games. We will be learning to:
  • Use storyboarding to represent a program design and algorithm.
  • Design and write code for a program.
  • Explore text and number variables.
  • Create a playable, competitive game.
  • Read code so that it can be adapted, personalised and improved.
To support your child at home you could: ​
  • Make up game ideas at home.
  • Try using Scratch or Purple Mash to create a game.
  • Talk about games you enjoy as a family.
 

Art and Design

This half term we will be:
  • Learning different sewing techniques.
  • Practicing our sewing.
  • Creating a sewn mosaic tile for a whole-school project.

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 Steve Reich
  • Creating our own piece of music using instruments and 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 Steve Reich
  • 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 'Relationships'.
We will be:
  • Identifying personal traits that we value about ourselves.
  • Learning how to resolve conflicts between friends.
  • Discussing what it means to be part of an online community.
  • Learning how to stay safe online.
  • Discussing 'screen time' and how to achieve a healthy balance of screen time.

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.
  • Talk about how 'screens' are used in your home and how we can use them safely.

RE

Our RE learning will continue in Summer 2. Check back to see what we will be learning during this time.

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.
  • Talk about the RE learning that we have covered this year so far.

PE

During our outdoor PE sessions, we will be learning about invasion games. As part of this, we will be learning the game of Quidditch!

During our indoor PE sessions, we will be spending some of our lessons learning about movement in dance, and some of our lessons learning athletics skills.

Miss Scott's class have PE on Mondays and Wednesdays.
Ms Rose/Miss Flynn's class have PE on Tuesdays and Thursdays.

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.
  • Create your own invasion games at home.
  • Watch videos of the game of Quidditch.









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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 we will be learning about the history of Britain in French!
As part of this, we will be learning phrases in French linked to:
  • I am...
  • I have...
  • I live...