Welcome to Year 5

Our PE Days are:

• Mondays (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.

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Bikeability

Over the next 3 weeks our Year 5 pupils will be taking part in Bikeability training. During the sessions, qualified instructors will help pupils develop important skills such as:

• Checking that their bike to safe to ride.
• Controlling and manoeuvring their bike confidently.
• Understanding road signs and traffic awareness.
• Riding safely on quiet roads.

English

We will start our new text: a non-chronological report about Emperor Penguins. We will begin by looking at what features are included in non-chronological reports and what questions we could ask and answer about Emperor Penguins.

Maths

We will be reading and writing decimal numbers to 2 decimal places. We will then look at how decimal numbers link to fractions.

Reading Comprehension

Our text this week will be a newspaper report about the astronaut, Tim Peake’s return from a trip to the International Space Station

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English

This week we will be editing our unaided narrative based on One Small Step. We will then move on to our new text: a non-chronological report about Emperor Penguins.

Maths

This week we will be multiplying unit and non-unit fractions, and mixed numbers by an integer.

Reading Comprehension

This week, we will be reading a non-fiction text titled Should Animals Be Kept in Zoos? We will answer Vocabulary, Inference, Prediction, Explanation, Retrieval and Summarising questions about the text.

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English

This week we will be planning and writing our unaided narrative based on One Small Step. Children will think of ideas for their own story, create a success criteria and write their own version following a similar structure to what we did in our sentence stacking lessons.

Maths

This week we will be multiplying unit and non-unit fractions, and mixed numbers by an integer.

Reading Comprehension

We will be doing Fixing Fluency this week. We will practise improving our smoothness, phrasing, pace, expression and volume while reading The Raven, based on the poem by Edgar Allan Poe.

Foundation Subjects

Religious Education (RE)
This half term, the children will be learning about what Christians believe about the old and new covenants. We will discuss how and why Abraham, Moses and King David are important to people of Christian and Jewish faiths.

Art
Our Art topic this half-term is Mixed Media and Painting Portraits. We will create interesting portrait drawings using words, experimenting with materials and techniques, and constructing self-portraits that represent aspects of ourselves.

Geography

In Geography this half-term we will be continuing with our learning on North America exploring the different time zones around the world.

Science

This half term, we will be learning about forces. We will learn about the effects of air resistance, water resistance and friction. We will also be learning about how levers and pulleys work.

Computing

In Computing this half term, we will be programming using Scratch. We will be planning, programming and evaluating a soundtrack.

In Year 5, Children will be given Reading, Spelling and TT Rockstars homework. Children will be set spellings on Friday ready to be tested the following Friday.

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.

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.

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All of year 5.

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5AM – Nyla-Rae

5KT/VSS – Matilda

5ZK – Aman

Children take part in weekly times tables tests to help track their progress and identify any areas where they may need extra support. After each test, Ping messages are sent to parents and carers to share results and updates.

It’s really important that children practise regularly at home each week, as this helps to build confidence, improve accuracy and prepare them for future learning. Consistent practice makes a big difference to their progress and understanding.

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:

https://ttrockstars.com/

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.

https://student.readingplus.com/seereader/api/sec/login