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Welcome to Year 5

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Welcome to Oak's Page

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

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Our core values of Endurance, Justice, Friendship, Compassion and Peace underpin all that we do.

Autumn Term Timetables

Our PE Days are:

  • Mondays: Indoor PE
  • Wednesdays: Outdoor PE

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 21.10.24

English

This week we will be planning our unaided writing based on the book-Cosmic. Children will be writing a fiction piece of writing based on the character of a young boy who flies a plane. Children will be using the skills that they have practiced throughout the unit of work as well as using new vocabulary that has been introduced- to write their unaided piece.

Maths

We will begin out unit on multiplications with a focus on multiples, common multiples, factors and common factors.

RE

This week in RE, we will be learning about the festival of Shavuot. exploring the questions: How is the giving of the Torah remembered during the Shavuot?

Science

This week, we will separating materials by sieving and filtering. Sand, rocks, flour and rice will be separated using the most efficient method.

Computing

We will be using a spreadsheet to investigate the probability of the results of throwing many dice

History

We will be comparing the modern Olympics with the ancient Olympic games.

 

Week beginning 04.11.24

English

We will be beginning our unit on biographies. We will start the week by looking at a biography of Jane Goodall and picking out key features. We will then move on to our sentence stacking lessons where we will begin writing a biography about David Attenborough, focusing on his early life.

Maths

We will multiplying and dividing by 10,100 and 1000.

RE

This week in RE, we will be investigating why Jewish people celebrate so many festivals today and how these festivals show what is important in Jewish communities. learning about the festival of Shavuot. exploring the questions: How is the giving of the Torah remembered during the Shavuot?

Science

We will be starting our new science unit based on Earth and Space. We will be discussing what children already know about the movements of the sun, the moon, planets and day and night.

Music

We will be stating our beginner keyboard course using Charanga. Children will be learning about the different keys and scale.

Geography

We will be using maps to locate countries in North America and Central America.

 

 

 

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.

W/C 14.10.24

Maths- Page 11-Roman numerals

Reading- Pages 4 and 5

Spellings- Orange words 2

W/C 21.10.24

Maths- Page 18- Multiples

Reading-Pages 6 and 7

Spellings-Unit 3-Suffix words ‘able’

 

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

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 30.09.24, our certificates have been awarded to:

  • 5AW: Anneliese
  • 5KT/VSS: Kulthum
  • 5ZK: Elsie

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:

https://ttrockstars.com/

 

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.

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

“The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.” Dr Suess.

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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: