Year 5

Welcome to our Year Five page.

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

We have lots to look forward to this half term!

Half Term Six. 

In English we will be writing diaries based on our class text 'The Nowhere Emporium'.  We will also write an explanation text about life cycles linked to the human life cycle.

In maths, we will be learning to measure angles accurately using a protractor.  We we learn about rotations, translations and the properties of shapes.  We will also further develop our understanding of decimals, learning to add and subtract them using real life contexts.

For our science lessons we will learn about how we grow and change during the human life cycle.

In computing we will be continuing to develop our word processing skills, adding images, headings, bullet points and formatting pages in a variety of ways.

Our History topic this half term will focus on The Industrial Revolution.  We will earn about what happened to Lancashire during the Industrial Revolution, how it impacted rich mill owners, inventions of the Industrial Revolution and the link between the cotton industry and Mahatma Gandhi.

In DT we will be creating wire sculptures linked to our previous learning about figures and forms in motion and then creating sculptures linked to our history topic.

During our PSHCE lessons we will learn about growing and changing.  We will think about how we change physically during our lifetime and understand how to be prepared for the next stage of our lives.  We will discuss changes to our emotions and think about recognising when we or people we know need additional support.  

In RE we think about the impact of pilgrimages on believers of a variety of faiths.  We will consider whether pilgrimage always has to be of a religious nature.

During Spanish lessons we will learn to use the simple future tense to talk about what we will do in teh future.

Important information:

Wednesday and Thursday are our PE days. 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