Year 5

Here’s to an amazing year together! The adults in our class are:

Mrs Curle (class teacher)

Mrs Williams

Mrs Dalby

Mrs Smith

This year our topics will be:

Autumn Term: The Tudors

Spring Term: The Victorians

Summer Term: World War 1

Reading                                    

• Reading continues to be a main priority this year. Our class author is Berlie Doherty and we will be exploring a book per term. We will also be reading another book linked to each of our topics. 
• The children will be rewarded for reading at home, each time they do they will get a sticker. Once they get 10, they can have a prize out of our dippy box in class.

Homework

Homework is set on a Friday and due in the following Friday. This will consist of:

• A piece of maths or grammar work each week (linked to our current learning in class)
• Weekly spellings
• Daily reading

If your child is finding their homework difficult please encourage them to attend homework club which runs during Monday lunchtime where a member of the year five staff will be available to give extra support.

Communication

If at any point over the year you need to make contact with us, then please either:

• Catch us on the playground before and after school
• Contact us on Class Dojo (between the hours of 8am and 5pm)
• Send in a message with your child

Autumn Term

English

We will be using the text ‘Treason’ by Berlie Doherty to base our English work on. This will include non - chronological  reports on Tudor life at sea and as well as completing punctuation, grammar and sentence work.

In the second half of the autumn term we will be studying 'MacBeth' and 'Midsummer's night dream' by Shakespeare.  We will complete instruction text to create witches potions and write adventure stories based on the books we have read.

Maths

This term we will be looking at place value (numbers up to one million), negative numbers as well as the four operations (+  -  x  ÷) and fractions.

Science

This term our two science topics are space where we will study the planets in our solar system as well as learning facts about the places so we can understand similarities and differences between them. We will also look at our moon's movement around the Earth and how we are affected by the sun. After half term we study forces: how gravity affects our world and carry out investigation into air resistance. 

History

Our topic this term is the Tudors. We study this important period in British history by learning about the monarchs and their role in changing the world we know. We look closely at Tudor life for the rich and poor and how this differs as well as how Tudor sailors discovered new lands and introduced many items to Britain such as tea, coffee, spices, potatoes etc.

Geography

We will be exploring Antarctica and what wild life lives there. We will look at how global warming is affecting the continent and what we can do as a future generation to help protect Antarctica.

RE

Our two topics this term are exploring the key questions/concepts:

• Is believing in God reasonable?
• How has belief in Christianity and Islam impacted on music and art throughout history?

Both topics are taught through class discussion to sort and order our thoughts to try and make sense of the world.

PSHE

This term we will be learning about 'thinking positive' and strategies we can use to help us manage our thoughts. After half term our topic is 'It's my body' where we talk about personal space and boundaries which is very important as we begin to approach puberty.

Computing

This term we will be covering online safety, how to set strong passwords, understand spam emails, how protect ourselves when online.

Music

This term we are going to be looking at Tudor songs and dynamics, pitch and texture.

Art/DT

During this term, we will be looking at drawing skills linked to space. We will also be learning about pop up books where we will design. create and design a Christmas pop up book that we will share with our buddies in reception.

Spanish

Our two topics this term are learning how to talk about the seasons and how to ask for different flavour ice creams.

PE

Our sessions are Tuesdays and Thursdays. Mr Boulton will be teaching rugby and dance this term. We suggest they leave their PE kit in school for the half term (unless it gets really dirty) so they can take part in all lessons. Earrings must be removed for PE lessons and long hair tied back for health and safety reasons.