Welcome to Year 5 

The Team

Miss Scott
Year Lead
​Sycamore Class
Mrs Hall
​Class Teacher
Elm Class
Mrs Archer
​LSA
Mrs Chaulke
​LSA
Miss Baker
​LSA
Miss Wilkins
​LSA

Key Dates

Wednesday 29th January - Books at Bedtime
Monday 3rd February - Home learning due
Friday 14th February - Break up for half term
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This Half Term

Project: Victorians

This half term we will be :
  • Understanding who the Victorians were
  • Describing the effect of the industrial revolution
  • Comparing Victorian streets to today's streets
  • Describing the jobs that Victorian children did and the conditions.
  • Evaluating the impact of new labour laws

Suggested Activities to Support Learning

To support your child at home you could:
  • Find out about Queen Victoria
  • Visit the MK Museum
  • Find out about workhouses and the conditions in them
  • Watch 'Oliver'

Writing (Based on Street Child by Berlie Doherty)

This half term we will be learning to:
  • Write a letter using formal and informal language.
  • Write for different purposes.
  • Use questions in our writing.
  • Use brackets in our writing.

Suggested Activities to Support Learning

To support your child at home you could:

Maths

This half term we will be learning to:
  • Multiply using a formal written method.
  • Understand the patterns in multiplication.
  • Divide 4 digit numbers by a one digit number using a formal written method.
  • Solve problems using multiplication and division.
  • Compare and order fractions.
  • Identify fractions that are equivalent.
  • Convert between mixed numbers and improper fractions.
  • Add and subtract fractions with the same denominator, or where the denominators are multiples of the same number.

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)
  • Continue to practise your KIRF targets at home until they are fluent.
  • Play fraction games online.
  • Times table facts become particularly important at this stage of learning - these should be prioritised over other maths skills during this unit of work.

Science
This half term we will be learning to:
  • Identify the properties of different materials.
  • Investigate magnetism.
  • Investigate thermal and electrical conductivity.
  • Separate mixtures using the properties of the materials that have been mixed.

Suggested Activities to Support Learning

To support your child at home you could: ​
  • Find out about which materials are magnetic.
  • Talk about why certain objects are made of particular materials e.g. coffee cups compared to wine glasses.

Computing

Suggested Activities to Support Learning
This half term we will be learning to:
  • Use spreadsheets to record information.
  • Learn about the different functions of spreadsheets.
  • Use a spreadsheet to plan an event.
To support your child at home you could: ​
  • Discuss how you might use spreadsheets in your life.
  • Show your child how to access Excel or Google Sheets on your home computer and how it can be used.
  • Create a spreadsheet at home for a particular purpose e.g. recording how much reading they have done, recording pocket money savings or housework etc.
 

Art and Design

This half term we will be:
  • Creating artwork in the style of Lowry
  • Using the medium of charcoal to create our artwork.
  • Using charcoal to create different tones of black.

Suggested Activities to Support Learning

To support your child at home you could:​
  • ​​Use charcoal to create your own images.
  • Find out more about L. S. Lowry

Music

This half term we will be learning to:​
  • Sing with increasing confidence, learning to project or soften our voices
  • Sing as part of a group
  • Sing in a harmony
  • Listen with attention to detail
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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.
  • Watch videos of chime bars being played.
  • Buy a musical instrument to use at home.

PSHE

This half term in our Jigsaw lessons we will be learning about 'Dreams and Goals'.
We will be:
  • Thinking about our own dreams and goals.
  • Considering how our dreams and goals may differ to people from other cultures.
  • Understanding that sometimes we need money to reach certain goals.
  • Considering the average earnings for different jobs in the UK.
  • Identifying jobs that we may want to do when we are adults, and considering what motivates us to work towards achieving our goal of having that job.​

Suggested Activities to Support Learning

To support your child at home you could:
  • Discuss your child's strengths and goals.
  • Talk about your own dreams and goals that you had as a child.
  • Discuss your own job, and why you chose this as a job.
  • Have a conversation about what your child wants to be when they grow up, and create a plan together for how they can achieve this.

RE

This half term we will be learning about different Sikh stories and thinking about their importance today to Sikhs. As part of this, we will be:
  • Reading different stories from the Guru Granth Sahib
  • Considering the symbolic meaning of these stories for Sikhs
  • Comparing these stories to stories from other religions.
  • Considering the importance of these stories in our modern day society and culture.

Suggested Activities to Support Learning

To support your child at home you could:
  • Discuss different religions.
  • Visit a local religious site such as a Sikh Gurdwara.
  • Find out about Sikhs and their beliefs.

PE

Our indoor PE lessons will take place with Mr Lines on a Wednesday morning. During our indoor PE sessions, we will be learning gymnastics skills.
Our outdoor PE lessons take place on a Thursday afternoon. During our outdoor PE sessions, we will be developing our hockey skills.

Please note that we do try to continue with our PE sessions even when the weather is very cold, so please make sure you send in 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.
  • Visit junior Parkrun on a Saturday.







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