Welcome to Year 5

Miss Harvey – Los Angeles

Miss Smith – Atlanta

Our teaching assistants in Year 5 are Ms. Machin and Mrs Dyde.

 

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Autumn term – The Bold and the Brave

English – Writing

As part of our English curriculum, we use the PALS approach to support and develop pupils' writing skills: 

P – Purpose 

A – Audience 

L – Language 

S – Structure 

Through the use of exciting and engaging high-quality texts, alongside the PALS approach, children are inspired to write for a range of purposes and audiences. By considering these key elements, we will be learning how to make effective choices about the content, language and organisation of our writing. Throughout the year, we will explore a variety of writing genres, helping us to develop our creativity, communication skills and understanding of different text types. 

During the Autumn Term, we will have opportunities to write in a range of genres, including a balanced argument, newspaper article, descriptive writing alongside other carefully chosen text types that support learning across the curriculum.  

Our text/s this term are:

Queen of the Falls: Amazon.co.uk: Van Allsburg, Chris: 9781849392723: Books  By Carol Ann Duffy The Lost Happy Endings: Amazon.co.uk: Carol Ann Duffy: 8601404249297: Books

Over the course of the year, pupils will work towards meeting the following writing objectives: 

  • Create complex sentences by using relative clauses with relative pronouns (who, which, where, whose, when, that)
  • Link ideas across paragraphs using adverbials of time place and numbers (e.g. later, nearby, secondly
  • Use devices to build cohesion within a paragraph (e.g. firstly, then, presently)
  • Use the first three or four letters of a word to check spelling, meaning or both in a dictionary
  • Use a thesaurus
  • Use different sentence structures with increased control
  • Use organisation and presentational devices (e.g. underlining, bullet points)
  • Suggest changes to grammar, vocabulary and punctuation to enhance effects and clarify meaning
  • Choose when it is appropriate to print (lower case or upper case) rather than to join writing (e.g. printing for labelling a scientific diagram or data, filling in a form etc)

This progressive approach enables children to build confidence as writers and develop the skills needed to communicate clearly, accurately, and purposefully in a range of contexts.  

English - Reading
Our reading books for the Summer Term will be Goodnight Stories for Rebel Girls and Hansel and Gretel – A Darkly Brilliant Fairytale. The Mastery Keys we will teach and use to assess the children's reading skills are listed below.

 

 

Maths

This term, we will be completing the following units in our Maths lessons:

  • Place Value
  • Addition and Subtraction
  • Multiplication and Division
  • Fractions

Useful Websites:

To help you along the way we have found some websites which they may find useful.   Many of these are interactive and use brief tutorials or engage the children to use their knowledge through the playing of games. 

  • A site with Maths Tutorials as well as Maths Games. Some of these games are linked to memory and would therefore help pupils to retain key information. http://www.online-maths-tutor.com/ 

PE
This term, Year 5 have PE on Wednesday and Thursday.
We ask that children come to school in their PE kit rather than school uniform on Thursday. This should include shorts and house team t- shirt and/or sweatshirt. If the weather is cold, then black tracksuit bottoms or leggings may be more suitable. Please ensure that long hair is tied back and earrings are removed or covered for PE on the appropriate days.

On Wednesdays we have Swimming. Children need to bring a NAMED bag containing their swimming costume (not a bikini) or swimming trunks and a towel. Children are able to wear goggles if needed. Long hair must be tied up and ALL jewellery must be removed. Children are not allowed to bring any electrical items, such as a hairdryer. Children must wear a swimming cap for all lessons (these will be provided by the swimming baths)


Other Areas of the Curriculum

Science: Living things and their habitats

PSHE:  Being me in my world – plus No Outsiders

PE: Swimming & Athletics

History: Anglo Saxons - Learning about the Anglo-Saxon invasion of Britain and how people lived. Looking at evidence from the Sutton Hoo excavation.

Geography: Map Skills - Grid references, compass directions, locating countries and cities, OS map symbols. (Harry Potter theme)

Art/DT: Typography/Structures

RE – Who do people have to stand up for what they believe in? and Why doesn’t Christianity always look the same?

French:  Me and my friends and Time in the city

Computing: Quizzing, Databases and Game Creator

Music:  Getting Loopy & Samba

Homework Expectations

Children are expected to complete the following tasks each week:

  • Reading at least 3 times per week. This should be recorded on page ticker and may include reading independently or with an adult.
  • Times Tables Rockstars (for at least 15 minutes).
  • Practise weekly spellings (in preparation for our test on Fridays).