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 Summer term:

Properties and changes of materials, Earth and space, forces, animals including humans and living things and their habitats.

PE days:

We will continue to ask the children to come to school in their P.E kits on their designated days.  

This will eliminate the need to share changing rooms.  

• Year 5 P.E days: Tuesday 5BS swimming, Wednesday 5WP (indoor) and Friday all Year 5 (outdoor).
• Please ensure that your child comes appropriately dresses in warm clothing when the weather begins to change – tracksuit and hooded jacket.

Homework:

English and Maths Homework is set on alternate weeks on a Friday. This needs to be returned to school on the following Thursday and will be placed inside each child’s green plastic homework wallet. 

Children are expected to read x3 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.  

Summer term

Arabian Nights

We complete Year 5 with a focus on early Islamic civilisations. Our key texts will be: The Golden Horsemen of Baghdad by Saviour Pirotta (Summer term 1) and Wisp: a story of Hope by Zana Fraillon (Summer term 2).

Through inspiration from the texts, the children will create: a story, instructions, cinquain poetry and a formal letter. We will focus our grammar lessons on tenses, modal verbs, creating cohesion within texts and spelling words with a range of suffixes correctly.

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:

• Way Home by Libby Hathorn
• Importance of Black History Month
• Beetle Boy by M.G Leonard
• Greenling by Levi Pinfold
• Peter Pan and Wendy by J.M Barrie
• Cogheart by Peter Bunzl

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 ‘living things and their habitats’ unit, the children will explore reproduction in plants, life cycles of flowering plants, mammals and amphibians.

Through our ‘Animals including Humans’ unit, the children will learn about the human timeline covering growth, development, puberty and old age.

Anti-Bullying week 2021

To mark anti-bullying week 2021, Year 5 joined in with the 'One Kind Word' theme. We all chose our one kind word that would make a positive difference when said to someone. We were mindful to remember when we used or received one kind word and then recorded it on a sticky note for all to see.

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!

This document 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.