Year 5
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Welcome to Year Five
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Important Dates:
Monday 12th October - Parent's Evening 4-6pm
Monday 12th October - Forest School
Tuesday 13th October - Parent's Evening 4-6pm
Monday 12th – Friday 16th October – 5S Bikeability
Monday 19th – Friday 23rd October – 5M Bikeability
Monday 19th October - Forest School
Wednesday 21st October – Whole school photos
Friday 23rd October - Break up for Half Term
Monday 26th October - Friday 30th October - Half Term
Monday 2nd November - Inset Day
Tuesday 3rd November - Children return to school
Monday 9th November - Forest School
Monday 16th November - Forest School
Thursday 3rd December - Loanshark Money workshop
If you were unable to attend our 'Meet the Teacher' session, please click on the link below to access the presentation used.
A reminder that Year 5 have PE every Thursday- please ensure your child comes to school in the correct PE kit and footwear. If you are unsure on the PE uniform, it can be found on the tab 'Uniform'.
If your child walks home alone, please ensure you have completed the appropriate form. Mobile phones are not permitted in school unless children walk alone.
English
During our English lessons throughout the Autumn term, Year Five will be focusing on descriptive writing to create a fantasy narrative using a picture prompt. This will be followed by a non-chronological report based on The Ancient Egyptians and a poetry unit writing acrostic poems about a fair ground ride.
Throughout all lessons, we will continue to reinforce and develop the use of writing structure, accurate punctuation and grammar alongside a focus upon the Year 5/6 statutory spelling list (which can be found in the documents).
Reading
During the Autumn term, Year Five will study the texts 'Street Child' by Berlie Doherty and 'Vi Spy' by Maz Evans. Throughout both texts, we will focus upon the core reading skills of vocabulary, inference, predicition, explanation, retrieval, sequence and summary.
The children will also take home their own reading book from school based upon their ZPD level. We encourage the children to read every day, whether this be independently or through shared experiences, across a range of text types to support their confidence, fluency and exposure to vocabulary.
Maths
As a school, we follow the Power Maths scheme and the units we cover are outlined in our curriculum overview. These units support the children in developing problem solving and reasoning skills as well as the ability to explain and justify their answers using manipulatives where necessary. In addition to this, we complete a daily 5 in 5 (five questions to test the retrieval of mathematical learning) and TTRockstars to help build confidence, fluency and accuracy within the subject.
In the Autumn term the focus units are: place value to 1 million, addition and subtraction, multiplication and division and fractions.
Curriculum
During the autumn term, the children will study a variety of interesting units in our wider curriculum which are outlined in our curriculum overview.
Art - The children will create relief art based on 'The Ancient Egyptians' using modroc.
History - We will study Ancient Civilisations; Ancient Sumer, Indus Valley, The Shang Dynasty and The Ancient Egyptians identifying similarities and differences between them.
Geography - The children will be learning about climate change through a study of Antartica.
Design and Technology - The children will be learning how to use and create their own pulley systems to create their final piece of a child's game.
PSHE - The children will be focussing on Relationships and Friendships during this term specifically; what healthy friendships look like, how to resolve conflict with friends, what consent looks like, being the 'boss of their body' as well as discrimination and cyber bullying.
