Horton Mill Community Primary School

Year 5

Welcome to our Year Five page.

Welcome back and we hope you've had a lovely summer holiday.

We have lots to look forward to this half term!

Half Term One. 

In English we will be writing descriptions based on our class text 'Beowulf'.  We will also write an explanation text about life in Anglo Saxon times.

In maths, we will be learning about the value of digits in numbers up to 1,000,000.  We will also learn about Roman Numerals.  We will build our mental addition and subtraction skills and we will learn to use written addition and subtraction strategies for larger numbers.

For our science lessons we will learn about reversible and irreversible changes.

In computing we will be developing our word processing skills by adding images, text boxes and formatting pages.

Our History topic this half term will focus on The Anglo Saxons.  We will learn about where they came from, what life was like and the impact they have had on Britain today.

In DT we will be cooking a delicious fruit crumble.  We will research recipes, ingredients and cost up our product.

During our PSHCE lessons we will think about recognising different emotions in ourselves and others, knowing how to offer support to our friends and knowing how to be assertive when we need to stand firm.

In RE we think about what Hindus believe about God and how they show their beliefs through worship.

During Spanish lessons we will learn to recognise classroom equipment, sports and how to give opinions, saying what we like or dislike.

Important information:

Monday and Wednesday are our PE days. Monday is swimming.  Please ensure your child brings their swimming kit to school every week.  On Wednesdays, children should come 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.

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.

WE also recommend 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!