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Year 5 consists of 3 classes: 5AW (Mr Wailes' Class), 5KT/VSS (Ms Teladia and Mrs Spon-Smith's Class) and 5ZK (Miss Khan's Class). On our class page you will find information about our fabulous learning taking place in the term ahead as well as weekly updates. There are links to websites and platforms to support your children with their learning at home as well as a gallery of photographs to showcase our curriculum in action. If you have any questions or queries, do not hesitate to contact one of the Year 5 team.
Learning Together, Growing Together
Our core values of Endurance, Justice, Friendship, Compassion and Peace underpin all that we do.
Autumn Term Timetables
Our PE Days are:
- Monday (Indoor)
- Wednesdays (Outdoor)
On these days, your child may come to school in their PE kit: plain white T shirt, black shorts or joggers and plain black trainers. A plain black hooded jacket may also be worn.
Jewellery is not permitted for safety.
Keep active: try a 5 minute workout with Joe Wicks.
Year 5 Curriculum
This Week's Learning
Week beginning 11.11.24
English
We will be continuing our unit on biographies, writing about David Attenborough’s career progression and achievements in our sentence stacking lessons.
Maths
In Maths, We will be starting our work on fractions, looking at converting equivalent fractions to unit and non-unit fractions.
RE
Next week will be Interfaith Week. Each class in Year 5 will be looking closely at a different religion. In 5KT/VSS they will be looking at Sikhism, in 5AW the focus will be Buddhism and in 5ZK they will spend the week learning about Hinduism. There will be an opportunity to be creative in answering the following questions.
| What does it mean to be a…? |
| What are the different ways……worship? |
| What are their key symbols and customs and what do they tell us about……? |
| What important messages can we learn from the holy book? |
| How can we find out about religion through creative arts? |
The children will have the opportunity to showcase their learning in front of the rest of the unit on Friday afternoon.
Week beginning 18.11.24
English
We will continue with biographies, finishing off our sentence stacking lessons on David Attenborough. We will then move on to planning for our unaided writing which will be a biography about Steve Backshall – environmentalist and presenter. We will be carrying out research to find out as much as we can about him.
Maths
We will continue our unit on fractions, finding equivalent fractions, converting improper fractions to mixed numbers and vice versa and also comparing fractions less than 1.
RE
This week in RE, we will be participating in live lessons led by people of the Jewish, Sikh, Christian and Pagan faiths. They will be answering questions that we will be sending to them and telling us all about their autumn festivals.
Music
We will continue to follow the Charanga programme. The children will focus on the pulse of some music and play some simple tunes on their keyboards.
Geography
The children will be looking at world maps and learning about lines of longitude and latitude and about different time zones in different parts of the world.
DT
The children will use the designs for a cuddly toy they did in the previous lesson and focus on one particular one they wish to make. They will draw the outline on a piece of card. This will provide the children with a template to attach to the felt they wish to use.
Week beginning 25.11.24
English
This week, we will be doing our unaided writing assessment. We will be planning and writing a biography about Steve Backshall.
Maths
Next week we will be continuing with the topic on fractions. The children will order and compare fractions, add and subtract fractions, add fractions within 1 and then with a total greater than 1.
RE
We will be starting our work about the Christmas story taking us up to the end of the term.
Music
We will continue to follow the Charanga programme. The children will focus on the pulse of some music and play some simple tunes on their keyboards.
Geography
The children will continue looking at North America. The focus in this week’s lesson is capital and major cities located throughout the continent.
Week beginning 2.12.24
This week is assessment week. There will be a reading paper, a SPAG paper and three Maths papers. Some of the week will be dedicated to rehearsals for the play. There will also be a panto and a walk down to church this week. The week will end on Friday afternoon with a Rock Steady concert in the hall.
Week beginning 09.12.24
English
This week, we will be doing some grammar lessons as a follow up to the SPaG assessment from the previous week as well as finishing the biography about Steve Backshall.
Maths
Next week we will be concluding our topic on fractions. The children will add and subtract fractions.
RE
We will be starting our work about the Christmas story taking us up to the end of the term. The focus will be on advent.
Music
We will continue to follow the Charanga programme.
Geography
The children will continue looking at North America. The focus in this week’s lesson is the prime meridian and different time zones around the world.
Week beginning 16.12.24
Monday
The children will do a dress rehearsal in the morning and then perform their Christmas play in the afternoon.
Tuesday
The children will be doing the second lesson of the advent topic in RE and in the afternoon they will make their Christingles for the church the following day.
Wednesday
The morning will be spent visiting the church for the annual Christingle service.
Thursday
The children will be finishing off topics that were unfinished due to the rehearsals for the play. This may include geography and sewing in DT. There will also be some time dedicated to making Christmas crafts.
Friday
This children can continue to make Christmas crafts in the morning and play some Christmas games. The children will then be having a Christmas party in the afternoon as a year group.
Homework
In Year 5, Children will be given Maths, Reading comprehension, Spelling and TT Rockstars homework.
Children will be set the homework on a Friday which must be returned by Wednesday the following week. If children do not complete the homework, then they will be supported by an adult with this at breaktime.
Alongside the maths and reading comprehension homework, children will also be expected to access TT Rockstars 3x a week for a minimum of 10 mins.
Children who are on the reading scheme are also required to read to an adult 5x a week with an adult signature acknowledging this in the reading record.
Children who are free readers are required to read 3x a week with an adult signature acknowledging this in the reading record.
To hand in w/c 11.11.24
Maths- Page 7- Place value in big numbers
Reading- Pages 10 and 11
Spellings- Read write Inc- Unit 4- silent t
To hand in w/c 18.11.24
Maths- page 32 – Equivalent fractions
Reading- Pages 12 and 13 – The Great Fire of London
Spellings- Orange words 4
To hand in w/c 25.11.24
Maths- pages 16 and 17 – Square and cube numbers
Reading- Pages 14 and 15 – Pompeii
Spellings- Unit 5
Spellings
Spelling lists consist of Read Write Inc spellings and Orange words.
Read Write Inc spellings follow a scheme, looking at spelling rules, patterns, prefixes, suffixes etc, and we aim to complete 1 unit every fortnight. Every 2 weeks, the children will receive a new spelling list with their Read Write Inc spellings.
Orange words are the words from the National Curriculum Y5/6 spelling list. On the weeks in between, we will send out a list of Orange words for the children to practise. They will practise their spellings during registration slots as well as a few short focused lessons throughout the week. There will be a spelling test every week alternating between Read Write Inc and Orange word spellings.
Here are this half term’s spelling lists:
School Council Members
We will soon be recruiting our School Council members. Check back here for an update soon.
- 5AW:
- 5KT/VSS:
- 5ZK:
Famous For a Fortnight
This is a very prestigious award presented every 2 weeks to a child in each class who has impressed their teachers with their academic work, effort, engagement or demonstrated one or more of our core values.
W/b 23.09.24, our certificates have been awarded to:
- 5AW: Lily
- 5KT/VSS: Maisha
- 5ZK:Alarna
W/b 07.10.24, our certificates have been awarded to:
- 5AW: Koby
- 5KT/VSS: Eesha
- 5ZK: Olivia
W/b 24.10.24, our certificates have been awarded to:
- 5AW: Lacey
- 5KT/VSS: Noah ST
- 5ZK: Aubrey
W/b 14.11.24, our certificates have been awarded to:
- 5AW: Jude
- 5KT/VSS: Umayymah
- 5ZK: Max
W/b 28.11.24, our certificates have been awarded to:
- 5AW: Jacob S
- 5KT/VSS: Adelina R
- 5ZK: Nadeem F
Well done. We are incredibly proud of you.
Always Child
This is also a very prestigious award presented every 2 weeks to a child in each class who ALWAYS does the right thing and makes the right choices relating to for example: behaviour, manners, showing kindness and compassion, working hard, trying their best and even ensuring they always arrive on time ready to learn. Children chosen for this award are role models in our school and an example to all.
W/b 08.11.24, our certificates have been awarded to:
- 5AW: Anneliese
- 5KT/VSS: Kulthum
- 5ZK: Elsie
W/b 08.10.24, our certificates have been awarded to:
- 5AW: Izabelle
- 5KT/VSS: Amber
- 5ZK: Nadeem
W/b 04.11.24, our certificates have been awarded to:
- 5AW: Muhammad – Aayaan
- 5KT/VSS: Maisha
- 5ZK: Molly
Well done. Wear your Always badge with pride.
Times Tables
We use Times Table Rock Stars to support their rapid recall of these. All children have a login and are encouraged to use it as often as they can.
Here is the link to the website:
Reading
We love reading in Year 5.
Every child has a reading book and a book they have chosen from our fabulous library every Friday afternoon.
We have a ‘Drop it and read’ session every week where all the children (and teachers) stop working and read a book for 10 minutes.
In addition, each child has a login to Reading Plus set at their own level which targets individual reading need to maximise progress.
“The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.” Dr Suess.