Welcome to Year 5 – Spring Term and Beyond

• A huge hello to all our year 5 children. I am pleased to introduce our Year 5 Team: Mrs Hartshorn, Mrs Pegg, Miss Spencer, Miss Fleming, Mrs Adonu and Mr Boyer.
• This page holds useful information for the Spring Term and beyond.

Year 5 – 2021-2022 Weekly Home Learning Timetable Sheets with website links

Should your child find themselves at home through Covid, we will provide a timetable linked to the units of study being taught in class. Only use this if your child is isolating because of Covid-19 but they remain well. Children are not expected to work at home if unwell.

Curriculum Outline & Timetable

Homework

Reading – 20 minutes at least everyday of challenging material. Please complete your Reading Record. Library day is Friday but books can often be changed more frequently

Spellings – and learn words and meanings – set Friday and tested the following Friday

My Maths – to support the topic – set every week

TT Rockstars – to strengthen your child’s vital Times Tables Knowledge…

English Resources

These will be based around S F Said’s Phoenix – developing narrative – characters and settings

Book Talk – every week and most days

Autumn – Viking Boy

Spring – S F Said Phoenix

Summer – Berlie Doherty’s Street Child

Maths Resources

Spring Term:We’ll continue to explore perimeter, area, multiplication and division; fractions,  decimals and percentages

We’ll be keeping the other skills going and looking at gap filling. Do practise your: times tables, addition and subtraction too.

Grammar Resources

Spring Term Geography Topic

Spring Science Resources

RE Resources

Art & DT Resources

French Resources

Computing Planning

Spring: Using Work set in Purple Mash. After thinking again about On-line safety, we will then look at how to manipulate spreadsheets, creating formulae and graphs and then applying these skills to a real-life situation. Our next unit focuses on databases, searching, populating and creating them to accompany our Science topics.

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 Wednesday
• Read – anything but preferably of a Year 5 quality so as to develop language and ideas- 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.
• 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).
• Spring: Tennis and Hockey

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