Year 5
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Welcome to Year Five
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EXTRA PE DATES FOR YEAR 5 - children can come to school wearing their PE kits.
Monday 23rd February
Monday 13th April
Monday 22nd June
Important Dates:
Monday 5th January - INSET DAY
Tuesday 6th January - Children return to school
Monday 12th January - 5T Library Visit
Wednesday 14th January - 5S Library Visit
Friday 23rd January - Ancient Egyptian Workshop (In-school visitor)
Friday 13th February - Break up for half term
Monday 16th February - Friday 20th February Half Term (One Week)
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 or brings a mobile phone to school, please ensure the forms have been completed and sent to school via Arbor.
English
During our English lessons throughout the Spring term, Year Five will be focusing on descriptions of seasons to create acrostic poems, using a range of literary features to write narratives based on natural disasters using the video prompt 'The Lighthouse Keeper' as well as writing a non-fiction text, a non-chronological report, about The Ancient Egyptians.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 'There's a boy in the girls' bathroom by Louis Sachar and 'Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone' by JK Rowling. 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: Multiplication and division, Fractions, Decimals and Percentages, Measure (perimeter and area) and Graphs and Tables.
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 Ancient Egyptian relief art using modroc.
History - We will study Ancient Egyptians.
Geography - The children will be about Africa, specifically Kenya and Tanzania.
Design and Technology - The children will be learning how to sew to create their own small bag.
PSHE - The children will be focussing on Living in the wider world this half term, specifically, caring for the environment, understanding the purpose of media and how to identify trusted sources online and exploring careers and ambitions.
