Year 5 Summer Term – second half 2021                               “Is change a good thing?”

 

Year Group Who’s Who (and where to find us)

The Year 5 class teachers are:

5JW – Mrs J Walkom       (Head of Year)                              5AF – Mr Flemming
5JT – Mrs J Thompson                                                            5GB – Miss Brady
5SH – Mr S Halsall

 

In addition Year 5 are supported by :

Mrs Beck                                             Miss Sullivan

Miss Bumbee                                      Mrs Cooper

Miss Dean

 

What will we be learning about in school this half term?

Through an enquiry-based curriculum we teach Maths and English daily and a range of foundation subjects such as: History, Geography, Computing, PE, Art, RE, PSHE, Music and DT.

 

Maths

For the foreseeable future, maths will be taught within classes with additional support and a wider range of differentiation for reinforcement and challenge tasks. An additional maths session has been timetabled, once a week, to purely focus on catch-up for the areas of maths missed in Year 4 and to reinforce topic taught through remote learning during the Spring Term.

  • Volume
  • Roman Numerals

 

English:

In addition to the genres above we teach regular spelling, punctuation and grammar lessons and reading comprehension. Spelling and reading homework are sent home weekly.

  • Poetry and Drama: Performance Poetry
  • Narrative: Adventure based around Fern Gulley
  • Non-fiction: Discussion about climate change

 

Science:

This half term the children will be developing their scientific skills through continuing to study ‘Reproduction in plants and animals’.

In this unit, Year 5 will be focusing more directly on comparing human lifecycles to animal lifecycles (linked to our RSE focus).

 

Our Foundation Studies will include:

  • Spanish
  • Music – reading music, playing pitched instruments
  • E- Tennis and dodgeball
  • E – Sikhism
  • History – Saxons
  • DT – design, make and evaluate
  • RSE – first aid and changes to the human body

Please click on the homework tab on the school website for our homework policy and suggestions for creative homework tasks for this topic

We have high expectations for the children and hope that you will continue to support us by ensuring the following…

 

Organisational aspects –

  • Ensuring that your child is at school on time and dressed appropriately;
  • Dinner money is sent into school on Monday in a labelled envelope;
  • Make sure that your child has a PE kit which is clearly labelled;
  • All children may bring a healthy snack;
  • Encourage your child to be prepared for the school day with the correct equipment.

 

Educational aspects –

  • Ensure your child reads every single day for at least fifteen minutes, preferably to an adult
  • Encourage your child to research other words that match the week’s spelling rules, as well as learning the words sent home
  • Mathematics, encourage your child to practise the 4 operations (+, -, ÷, x), learn tables (TT Rockstars)

and use mathematical skills in everyday life, eg time and money.

 

Communication with your child’s class teacher can be made through the class email.  If you wish to make a longer appointment, please telephone the school office and an appointment will be made at a mutually convenient time. Please remind your children that they can contact their class and teacher directly through Teams – on the General page, Chat Space or the Individual Chat with their teacher.

Kind regards,

The Year 5 Team

 

Year 5 Changes Creative Homework 2021