Welcome to Year 5!
We are very much looking forward to an amazing year ahead with our Year 5 cohort. We have plenty of fun and challenging topics, trips and activities to look forward to. We will continue to follow the White Rose scheme of work for maths and use the Hamilton Trust scheme of work in science.
Our topics this year are as follows:
Autumn: Who Let the Gods Out? (Ancient Greece)
Spring: Stars and Stripes (North America / Space)
Summer: Arabian Nights (Early Islamic civilisations)
Science themes to be covered:
Forces, Earth and space, Properties and changes of materials, animals including humans and living things and their habitats.
PE days:
We will continue to ask children to come to school in their P.E kits on their designated days. This will eliminate the need to share changing rooms.
Homework:
English and Maths Homework is set on alternate weeks on a Friday. This needs to be returned to school on the following Thursday.
Children are expected to read x5 times per week at home – and logged in their RED journal which will signed weekly in class. A signature will be required weekly to acknowledge that your child has completed independent reading.
Spring term
Stars and Stripes
We start 2024 learning about North America and studying the book Hidden Figures, which is set between the 1930s and 1960s and describes the barriers for Black women in science at that time. It contains biographical information about four influential mathematicians and engineers, all of whom contributed to the space race while working for NASA. We will explore issues faced by the main characters, including segregation in the workplace, and the inequalities between men and women in the workplace during the 1930s to 1960s.
During Spring 2, we will move on to a book by author Frank Cottrell Boyce called Cosmic. This allows us to discuss inclusivity/diversity and looking different to our peers.
Year 5 will be visiting Jodrell Bank this term to consolidate our Earth and Space Science topic. This sits perfectly supporting our book ‘Hidden figures’ looking closely at the pioneers working at NASA in the 1960s.
Keep an eye on MyEd and we will share with you many activities the children experience this term.
Whole Class Reading:
Year 5 have been thoroughly enjoying delving deep into a range of texts during whole class reading. So far we have read or will be reading soon:
We have used a range of guided reading tasks related to our reading dogs such as: Retrieval Rex, Vocabulary Victor, Prediction Pip, Summarising Sheba and Inference Iggy.
Science:
Through our forces block, children will explore that unsupported objects fall towards the Earth because of the force of gravity acting between the Earth and the falling object. They will be identifying the effects of air resistance, water resistance and friction, that act between moving surfaces. Finally, children will recognise that some mechanisms, including levers, pulleys and gears, allow a smaller force to have a greater effect.
During our second block children will be able to describe the movement of the Earth, and other planets, relative to the Sun in the solar system. Describe the movement of the Moon relative to the Earth and use the idea of the Earth’s rotation to explain day and night and the apparent movement of the sun across the sky.
There is a link to our weekly spellings at the bottom of our class page.
Use EdShed to play interactive games with our spellings each week.
Use Times Tables Rock Stars to play interactive games and become a Rock God!
The document below has lots of different fun ways to practice spellings. Lots of these we have already tried in classes, and lots are new! Please try to practice spellings, or the Year 5 'Common Exception Words' daily.
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Unfortunately not the ones with chocolate chips.
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