Welcome to Year 5
- Welcome!
- A huge hello to our new year 5 cohort children who join us this Autumn. I am pleased to advise that Mrs Hartshorn, Mrs Pegg and our student teacher Miss Fleming are joining the year 5 team of Mrs Adonu and Mr Boyer.
- This page will gradually fill up with useful information for the new year, however at first we have posted some hints on the Autumn term and year ahead.
Year 5 Learning – General information & current weekly ‘notes & links’
Year 5 Timetable
Home learning links, materials and information have been inserted below.
Year 5 – 2021 Weekly Home Learning Timetable Sheets with website links
Should your child find themselves at home through Covid, we will provide them with a timetable linked to the units of study that will be taught in class. Please only use this if your child is required to isolate after testing positive for Covid-19 but they remain well. Children are not expected to work at home if unwell.
Details to follow
Curriculum Outline & Timetable
Autumn Term Homework
To follow
English Resources
To follow – but will be based around Tony Bradman’s Viking Boy – diaries, logs, letters and newspapers
Book Talk
Viking Boy – this is being talked about in class each week
Maths Resources
We’ll be looking at: Place value, Addition, Subtraction, Multiplication and Division, Statistics, Perimeter and area. We’ll be keeping the other skills going and looking at gap filling. Do practise your times tables, addition and subtraction too.
Grammar Resources
Lesson details to follow
The Saxons and Vikings Topic
Lesson Details To follow
Science Resources
Autumn 1: Properties of, and Changes to, materials – To follow
RE Resources
Autumn 1: Sacred Texts: Do Muslims need the Qur’an?
Art & DT Resources
Autumn 1: Creating great sketchbooks & Art in Islam
French Resources
Computing Planning
Autumn 1: Coding with Purple Mash – details to follow
Expectations (including uniform)
- Aim high and let your light shine.
- Please ensure that your child is ready for whatever the day, week and term brings. PE kits, reading well and homework completed and handed in on time, will all help your child to succeed.
- Practise spellings, learn times tables to 12×12, read for leisure and understanding
- PE and Games are usually Tuesday and Friday
- Read – anything – stories and non-fiction
Reading
- We use the Accelerated Reader scheme to help our children read, and understand, a huge range of interesting and exciting texts. We also read texts to support our projects and learning, for example, Viking Boy by Tony Bradman, Berlie Doherty’s Street Child or Phoenix by S F Said.
Writing
- The Termly Curriculum Outline provides more details on content, but we aim to develop your child’s writing abilities through our IPEELL approach. This looks at the structure and content of writing, encourages the children to become self-regulating, and also includes lessons on grammar and spelling.
Maths
- Again, please see the termly curriculum overview, which outlines the year 5 Maths content explored. We will look at number and place value, addition and subtraction, multiplication and division, fractions and statistics too.
- A thorough knowledge of times tables (and division facts) to 12 x 12 makes Maths so much easier. Read, write, practise, chant, Times Tables Rockstars…
- A good understanding of the four operations (+ – X /) is really important.
Homework
- We hope that homework supports and develops your child’s class based learning. We cannot possible hope to cover everything during the School day, but homework will help to develop and explore ideas met at school. Time to explore the topics in more detail can make your child’s learning journey more exciting and complete.
- We would like your child to spend up to 45 minutes per subject per week.
- Please ensure that the work is neat and tidy, completed well and handed in on time.
- Do speak with your child’s teacher if there are problems. Don’t let difficulties become mountains – please.
- English, Maths and Spellings – to be confirmed
- Please do read with your child whenever possible – reading to them as well as hearing them – and then discuss the text. A good range of challenging books will help your child gain ideas, themes and vocabulary that will help enrich their writing and reading in class as well as their future lives.
PE (indoor and outdoor)
- We have indoor and outdoor sessions most weeks, so please ensure your child has a named, good, warm kit for the coldest winter days please. This will help them get the most from dance, drama, netball, tennis and basketball sessions.
- PE kit should be in accordance with school colours (navy).
Equipment
- We’ll provide basic equipment at school. But at home, create a study area with well stocked pencil case – pencils, a good quality black writing pen, ruler, small selection of pencil colours, rubber, sharpener, small dictionary and thesaurus
How parents can help
- Set up a study area at home – as above
- A complete change of clothes and trainers for PE – t-shirt, shorts, tracksuit top and bottoms – all labelled please
- Good school day routines
- Helping with homework – or at least checking what homework there is and day due in
- Reading
- Practising times tables up to 12×12 with the associated division facts
- Talking about the school topics – we will encourage the children to talk rather than grunt with you!
Wider curriculum / trips and visits
With COVID in mind, Y5 Trips and visits are reviewed from time to time but we would wish to include:
- Visiting our church (St Laurence) to support our RE topics and to present a wonderful Christmas Carol Concert;
- The National Space Centre, Leicester to explore our Earth and Space Science topic
- Attending the exciting Royal Latin School’s Year 5 Science Fair to gain a glimpse of Secondary school science