Year 5
🤗 Hello and Welcome to Year 5 🤗
We would like to take this opportunity to say hello and a big warm welcome to Year 5.
We have many exciting things planned for the year and hope your children will share these experiences with you on a regular basis.
Class Teachers
The class teachers in Year 5 are:
Maple - Mrs McClive (Mon, Tues & Weds), Ms Fiore (Thurs & Fri).
Rowan - Dr. Hardwidge.
P.P.A. is covered by:
Miss Brock (Monday p.m.) and Miss Flemming (Friday p.m.) in Maple.
Mrs Powell in Rowan (Monday p.m.).
TA’S are Miss Brock, Mrs Martin and Miss Watts.
Equipment
Children may bring in one small pencil case with items such as: pencils, pencil crayons, ruler, rubber and glue stick.
PE days and kit
On PE days, children are encouraged to come to school in their PE kit.
Please see the school uniform policy for more information on kit (see link at the bottom of this page).
Maple - Tuesday (indoor) and Friday (outdoor).
Rowan - Tuesday (indoor) and Wednesday (outdoor).
Homework
Daily reading.
Times Table Rock Stars - games and challenges.
Maths tasks (when appropriate).
In Year 5 this year, our History and Geography topics will be:
Autumn:
Why were the Vikings lords of the sea? (History)
Is it too late to save the rainforest? (Geography)
Spring:
How did the great kingdom of Benin end? (History)
Tundra or Taiga, in which biome should I roam? (Geography)
Summer:
Was King Henry VIII the most important Tudor? (History)
Location, location, location: why is location important? (Geography)
Knowledge Organisers
Times Tables
The expectation is that children in Year 5 are fluent in their recall of the times tables facts up to 12 x 12 and the corresponding division facts.
Regular practise and review helps keep skills sharp.
There are many different ways of learning these such as: web-based games (such as TTRS), singing and rote format.
Communication
We love to keep you up to date with what we are doing in class and you will find regular updates on our Class Dojo pages. If you wish to speak to your child’s class teacher, please make an appointment via the school office or through Class Dojo.
We are looking forward to a fantastic year and thank you in advance for all the support you give to your child and their learning 😊
Autumn term curriculum overview Year 5
Spring term overview
Year 5 Long Term Overview 2021 to 2021
Nurturing Hearts Week - we wore odd socks to show how unique we all are at the beginning of a week focusing on anti-bullying.
Greenpeace Talk - we were so lucky to have Mr Lancaster from Greenpeace talking to us via TEAMs about the amazing variety of animals and plants that live in the rainforests and what we can do to help save them.
Term 2 - Is it too late to save the rainforests? We are reading 'The Explorer' by Katherine Rundell, set in the Amazon Rainforest as a stimulus for our writing and are passionate about preventing deforestation already!
Year 5 began to study Andy Warhol in art and completed class mosaics of his face.
October: Black History Month - we learnt about many great women of black heritage in history and produced some beautiful information pages.
Term 1 - Why were the Vikings lords of the sea? We enjoyed reading 'Viking Boy' as our class text, wrote wonderful character descriptions and discovered how powerfully shaped longships really were!
We began Year 5 by reading a beautiful picture book called 'The Fox and the Star'. We created artwork and wrote our own stories called 'The Star and the Fox'.
