Year 5

Welcome to our Year Five page.

Welcome back and we hope you've had a lovely half term.

We have lots to look forward to!

Half Term Six. 

Our class text this half term will be The Nowhere Emporium by Ross Mackenzie .

In English we will be writing a setting description and an explanation text about lifecycles.

In maths, we will be completing our learning about decimals and percentages.  we will then move onto perimeter and area, graphs and tables, angles, negative numbers and units of measure including time. 

For our science lessons we will learn about lifecycles in a variety of plant and animal species including humans.

In computing we will be continuing to develop our coding skills to make instructions happen.

Our History topic this half term will focus on Ancient Greece.  We will learn about what daily life was like in ancient Greece, what the ancient Greeks believed about Gods and how the Ancient Greeks have influenced the world we live in today.

In Art we will create wire sculptures to reflect plants and animals. 

During our PSHCE lessons we will be focusing on relating to ourselves ourselves and others.  We will consider why relationships, tolerance and respect are so important.

In RE we will continue our learning about the values people live by.  We will consider the values of Christianity, Islam, Judaism, Hinduism, Buddhism and Humanism.  we will look for similarities between the values each faith or worldview share and how this can help to make the world a better place.

During Spanish lessons we will recap our learning from across the year, focussing on the future tense and practising our spoken language skills.

Important information:

Tuesday and Wednesday are our PE days. Please ensure your child comes to school in their PE kits. PE kits: Plain white T shirt and plain black shorts or tracksuit bottoms and trainers.

Reading at home: Children are encouraged to read at home for at least 10 minutes every night. Reading Records should be completed by your child and signed by an adult each week. 

They should bring a book bag to school every day.

Children can choose a new book as soon as they have competed one, there is no set day for changing books.

Fluency and Phonics: Children should be reading their online books at least twice per week.  If past words are needed, please speak to Mrs Meredith.

Home-learning:

All home-learning will be set weekly. We will provide English and Maths home-learning with additional topic activities. Children will also have weekly spellings to learn. 

Please encourage your child to use spelling shed each week.  Children have their logins.

It is essential that children continue to practice their times tables and division facts each week.

If you have any questions or concerns, please don’t hesitate to ask. We are happy to support all our children and families in any way we can.

Mrs. Clews, Mrs. Meredith and Miss Ashton

EXTRA 

Year 5: BBC Bitesize lessons:https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/tags/zhgppg8/year-5-and-p6-lessons

Spellings: https://spellingframe.co.uk/

Reading: Oxford Owls   www.oxfordowl.co.uk      Class login:  Year Five 23               Password: Scooby

Primary help: http://primaryhomeworkhelp.co.uk/index.html

Spanish:   https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/subjects/zxsvr82

Maths: https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button 

Times tables games - Learn them all here!