Welcome to Year 5

Mr Howarth, Mrs McFetridge and Miss Gregory.

Spring Term 2024 

Our whole school Learning in Context theme is:

Let's Go: Magical Adventures Await!

 

 Class Dojo is a great way for us to keep in touch with you. We post regular photos of the work we have been doing in school and share any messages that need to communicated with the whole class. There is also the option for you to upload things you've been doing at home.  It's always great to see what you've been up to!

 

English

Queen of the Falls

At the turn of the nineteenth century, a retired sixty-two-year-old charm school instructor named Annie Edson Taylor, seeking fame and fortune,

decided to do something that no one in the world had ever done before—she would go over Niagara Falls in a wooden barrel.

 

 

The key skills we will be focusing on are:

Develop and keep characters consistent through description

Develop settings through description and link this with the characters or plot

Use paragraphs to vary pace and emphasis

Re-telling of a series of events leading up to a high impact resolution.

Combine action, dialogue and description

Powerful, evocative language for settings and characters

 

Shared Reading

This half term, Year 5 will be reading the texts: 

The moon (literacy shed) 

Dragons roar into space (literacy shed) 

One Giant Leap 

 

 

 

Maths

In this half term, Year 5 are focusing on:

 

Place value: 

Read, write, order and compare to 1,000,000 forwards/back in powers of 10 to 1,000,000 

Counting in negative numbers 

Solve practical problems with above 

 

Addition and subtraction:

Whole numbers past 4 digits using formal written column methods 

Add and subtract mentally with large numbers 

 

Multiplication and Division 

Find all factor pairs and common factors  

Know and use vocab for prime, composite and prime factors.  

Recall prime numbers to 19, identify prime to 100 

Multiply and divide whole numbers and decimals by 10, 100 and 1000 

 

Fractions  

Compare and order fractions  

Equivalent fractions 

 

Geometry  

Identify 3D shapes 

from 2D representations  

Estimate and compare acute,  

obtuse and reflex angles 

 

 

Science

 

This half term in science, we will be focusing on the topic ‘Properties and Changes of Materials’.

 

 

 

 

World Knowledge

In Year 5, we will be focussing on developing our understanding of North America

 

 

Art

Here is the link to Dinopixel

 

 

P.E.

Year 5 PE is on a Monday morning.   

All chidlren should come into school on this day in clothes and shoes that are suitable for PE (or their school PE kit).

In addition to this, we have speclalist sports coaching throughout the year.  Keep an eye out on Class Dojo for updates.

 

 

Things to remember in Year 5:

P.E. Friday with Mr Coleclough

Homework set on Wednesday due for the following Monday

Spelling Test on Wednesday 

Five reads a week with reading diaries due in on Monday.

Times Table Rockstar practise each week set alongside homework

Home read books are changed throughout the week

Monday reading diaries in for guided reading

 

 

Useful websites for Maths:

http://www.mathletics.com

http://www.crickweb.co.uk/ks1numeracy.html

http://www.crickweb.co.uk/ks2numeracy.html

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/learning-to-count/underwater-counting

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/ordering-and-sequencing/chinese-dragon-ordering 

http://www.primarygamesarena.com

www.mathszone.co.uk 

http://www.math-exercises-for-kids.com

www.subtangent.com 

https://www.mathplayground.com/

http://www.primaryhomeworkhelp.co.uk/maths

http://www.theschoolrun.com/primary-numeracy-glossary-for-parents

 

Useful websites for English:

BBC Spellits (Spelling games) (KS2)

BBC Bitesize (Spelling and grammar) (KS2)

Arcademic Skill Builders (Literacy and maths games) (KS1 & KS2)

Crickweb (Literacy and maths educational games) (KS2)

Kids Spell (Create your own spelling lists & games) (KS1 & KS2)

Fun Brain (Maths, reading and spelling games) (KS1 & KS2)

Learning Games for Kids (Spelling and word games) (KS1 & KS2)

Eduplace.com (Levelled spelling and vocabulary games) (KS1 & KS2)

PrimaryGames.com (Spelling rules, incl. vowels, blends, plurals etc) (KS1 & KS2)

ICT Games.com (Look, cover, check game) (KS1 & KS2)

The Times Spelling Bee (Listen to a word and spell it) (KS2) (14 day trial: £1)

Manythings.org (Aimed at ESL students but includes useful spelling & vocabulary games) (KS2)

Spelling city (Vocabulary and spelling interactive activities, printable worksheets, games) (KS2)