Welcome to Year 5!
Class 5M
Teachers - Mrs McLaren
Class 5K
Teacher - Mrs Kular and Mrs Walker
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Teaching Assistants - Mrs Walsh, Miss Wilson, Mrs Katzenmier and Ms Oates |
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Reminders
PE
5K's PE days are Monday and Friday
5M's PE days are Monday and Friday
Homework
Children should log onto TT Rockstars every week and complete the questions in Garage - these are questions that have been specifically set by the class teachers. The expectation is that they complete 5 games every week.
Homework (including spellings) will be uploaded to Google Classroom every Friday at 3:30pm and is expected back on the following Friday.
Additional are sent home to help your child consolidate the week's learning as an optional homework.
Reading
You must read at least 5x a week at home and record this in your reading record. Children are expected to write a sentence about what they have read every day. Parents sign the reading record for the teachers to check every Friday. Reading books can be changed on a Monday and Friday. There is a termly reading challenge in the reading record for your child to work towards.
Termly Curriculum Overview
Parent information
English
We will be reading Who Let The Gods Out, written by Maz Evans.
Synopsis: Elliot's mum is ill and his home is under threat, but a shooting star crashes to earth and changes his life forever. The star is Virgo - a young Zodiac goddess on a mission. But the pair accidentally release Thanatos, a wicked death daemon imprisoned beneath Stonehenge, and must then turn to the old Olympian gods for help. After centuries of cushy retirement on earth, are Zeus and his crew up to the task of saving the world - and solving Elliot's problems too?
Throughout the half-term, we will write a range of character descriptions, letters, speech and narratives.
Below, you will find examples of vocabulary and terminology that we are focusing on in Year 5.
Reading
100 best books for children. Finding it hard to find a book your child likes?
Try one of these websites.
https://www.booktrust.org.uk/books-and-reading/our-recommendations/100-best-books/
https://www.penguin.co.uk/articles/2022/03/best-childrens-books-stories
Spelling
Science
Topic
History - Ancient Greece
RE
This half term, the children will be learning "Why is Prayer important for religious believers?"
they will learn about why people pray and how people from different religious communities pray.
Art & Design
With a focus on Greek pottery, the children will look at traditional Greek patterns to do polystyrene printing, observational drawing and finally, to make their own Greek pots using clay.
Music
The children will be making up their own Christmas song this half term! After researching Christmas songs, they will delve into a world on song writing, composing and performing.
PSHE
We will cover a wide range of topics in PSHE this year, both inside and outside of our PSHE lessons. During Good to be Different Day, we celebrate differences and see how we can learn from others; we tackle some very important and current issues in our No Outsiders lessons; discuss showing "Racism the Red Card" as we explore stereotyping and have learn how to keep ourselves (mind and body) healthy.
PE
In PE, we are learning skills in Yoga and Tag Rugby.
French
This term, to consolidate our learning in Science, we are learning about the planets. The children will name the planets in the solar system and pretend to be an astronaut, answering questions about themselves!
Computing
In Computing, we will be working on the unit ‘We are Adventure Gamers.’ The children will be designing, writing and debugging programs of their own to accomplish specific goals.
Maths
This half-term, we will be looking at place value, addition and subtraction, multiplication and division and fractions.
We will use fluency and reasoning questions along with problem solving activities to embed learning.
Below, you will find some useful vocabulary and concepts that we cover in Year 5.
A great activity to practice and consolidate times-table recall!
Community Project
This year we will be partnering up with Havering Talking Newspaper to record articles about school life and share some of our work. Havering Talking Newspaper provide recorded copies of the local news to Havering's visually impaired community.
