Welcome to Year 5 

The Team

Miss Scott
Year Lead
​Sycamore Class
Mrs Hall
​Class Teacher
Elm Class
Mrs Archer
​LSA
Miss Butler
​LSA
Miss Lee
​LSA
Miss Brown
​LSA

Key Dates

Friday 13th September - Roald Dahl Day
Friday 13th September 3.30pm - Bushcraft Residential Evening
Tuesday 17th September - Virtual Reality headset visit (Space)
Friday 27th September - MacMillan Cake Coffee Meeting
​Monday 14th October - Home Learning due
Monday 14th October - Parents Evening
Wednesday 16th October - Parents Evening


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This Half Term

Project: Space

This half term we will be learning to:
  • Explain how the space race played a significant part of the cold war.
  • Create timelines of significant events.
  • Explain how the space race helped to end the cold war.
  • Describe the movement of different celestial bodies in our solar system.
  • Identify positions on the globe using geographical language.

Suggested Activities to Support Learning

To support your child at home you could:
  • Research space and the solar system.
  • Visit the National Space Centre in Leicester.
  • Create a model of the solar system.

Writing (Based on Cosmic by Frank Cottrell Boyce)

This half term we will be learning to:
  • Write a newspaper report.​
  • Use passive voice in our writing.
  • Use direct and indirect speech, using the correct punctuation marks.
  • Use hyphenated words.
  • Write from the point of view of a character.
  • Write fiction and non-fiction texts.

Suggested Activities to Support Learning

To support your child at home you could:
  • Visit the local library to find information texts about space, particularly the first man on the moon.
  • Read old news articles about man walking on the moon or about other space related news stories.
  • Watch videos linked to space exploration.

Maths

This half term we will be learning to:
  • Read, write, order and compare numbers to 1 million
  • Round numbers in different ways (to 10, to the nearest million etc)
  • Interpret negative numbers in context and solve problems using negative numbers.
  • Count forwards and backwards in powers of 10 for any number up to 1 million.
  • Read Roman numerals up to 1000 and recognise different years in Roman numerals.

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.
  • Practise reading large numbers when you see them.
  • Estimate large numbers e.g. when you watch a football match on television, try to estimate how many people there are in the crowd.

Science

This half term we will be learning to:
  • Name the planets in the solar system.
  • Understand the difference between celestial bodies in our universe.
  • Understand how the planets, stars and moons relate to one another and move.
  • Understand why we have day, night and shadows.

Suggested Activities to Support Learning

To support your child at home you could: ​
  • Find out about different planets in the solar system.
  • Create a model of the solar system.
  • Keep a moon diary and record the shape of the moon each night.

Computing

Suggested Activities to Support Learning
This half term we will be learning to:
  • Keep safe when using the internet.
  • Design and write a program that achieves a goal.
  • Simulate a physical system.
  • Understand the word 'variable'
  • Create and improve a game.
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 working with Andy on Monday afternoons to create pottery inspired by space. We will be learning to:
  • Know what consistency the clay needs to be to work it well.​
  • Shape pottery so that it can be heated safely in a kiln.
  • Create pottery joins and textures that will keep our pottery from shattering.
  • Use colour, texture and shape to create an attractive piece of pottery artwork.

Suggested Activities to Support Learning

To support your child at home you could:​
  • ​​Come along to Andy's family Pottery sessions after school on a Monday.
  • Buy some clay (or make your own saltdough) to practise creating your own shapes at home.​​

Music

This half term we will be learning to:​
  • Compose our own music using the chime bars.
  • Understand a 4 beat rhythm pattern.
  • Play a pattern repeatedly and fluently.
  • Develop words to go with our compositions.
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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 'being me in my world'.
We will be:
  • Thinking about what makes each of us special and unique.
  • Considering some goals that we may want to aim for this year.
  • Reflect on goals we have achieved in the past.
  • Consider what our personal strengths are.

Suggested Activities to Support Learning

To support your child at home you could:
  • Discuss your child's strengths and goals.
  • Talk about your own strengths and what goals you have worked towards.
  • Come up with a plan together for how you can help them to achieve their goals, and reward them when they do (the best rewards are often experiences, not physical objects such as money).

RE

This half term we will be considering how far a Sikh may go for his/her religion. As part of this we will be:
  • Learning about the Sikh Khalsa
  • Finding out about Sikh beliefs.
  • Finding out about Langar and marriage in Sikhism.
  • Considering how far we would go to reach a particular goal.

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 PE lessons this year will take place on Wednesdays. We will also have PE on either a Tuesday or Thursday (tbc).
This half term, we will be taking part in Outdoor Adventurous Activities (learning how to map routes, read compasses and create obstacles to overcome) and we will also be learning Rugby skills.

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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