Class 5U
Welcome to Year 5!
Throughout Year 5, we have lots of exciting lessons and activities in store and on the page below, you will find more details about what we will cover in individual subjects as well as a weekly timetable.
Spring Term
Our theme this term is: Our World and Beyond
History: We will be travelling across the Atlantic Ocean to look at an Ancient Civilization from the American continents. We will be looking at how The Ancient Maya lived and how this civilization came to an end…
Science: The children will hopefully be very happy to find out that we will be covering all things Space related this term! We are sure that we will have a blast exploring all of our questions though.
Art: We will be researching, designing and creating our very own Maya masks with Modroc.
DT: This term we will be looking at construction and how we can make stable foundations and joins across materials. This will lead into our project for next term too (Summer)!
Computing: We will be continuing our work with Espresso coding where the children learn to write the code for games. This will then help them with our next unit which involves more complex coding, using a different program called Scratch.
How to Help at Home
Reading
Reading diaries are collected in each Friday and checked. We are looking at the types of books the children are reading to ensure it is a range of genres and authors (and that they are selecting an appropriate challenge), how much they are reading at a time (please write the page numbers to help with this) and the number of times your child is reading a week. We expect the children to read 5 times a week for 20 minutes each time. This is the very best way to help your child at home. We also strongly encourage the children to read with an adult so that the proper pronunciation of words is learnt and reading for meaning and enjoyment is encouraged. Discussing the characters, their actions and the themes within a book help to deepen their understanding of what they read.
Homework
The children will be set a maths task and an English task each week. These will be set via Sumdog, reading comprehensions, spelling and SPAG.com. On occasions, we may also set tasks that link to other curriculum areas. This will be set on a Wednesday and will be due in the following Tuesday. Spellings will be set and tested on a Friday.
Times tables practise
A good knowledge of times tables will really help your child to tackle the year 5 maths curriculum. It is vital that they learn multiplication and division facts up to 12×12. If your child is still learning these facts, they should be practising each day for around 10 minutes. Little and often is the best approach.
Week at a Glance
Monday | My Happy Mind assembly/weekly introductory lesson. |
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Tuesday | Assembly – Hymn Practice |
Wednesday | Mr Dodd teaching in the morning. Love Music Trust glockenspiel lessons in the afternoon. Homework set: Sumdog and SPaG |
Thursday | Assembly – linked to weekly theme Outdoor PE – kits needed
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Friday | Spelling test and new spellings given. Homework Diaries signed. Indoor PE – kits needed. Mr Dodd teaching in the afternoon. |
Useful Links
Oxford Owl – ideal for those still on reading levels or who are on ‘taking off’ books. https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/for-home/find-a-book/library-page/
https://uk.ixl.com/math/year-5
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button
Primary Literacy Glossary for Parents
http://www.iseemaths.com/home-lessons/
https://www.spag.com/
Safety & Wellbeing
- NSPCC’s Childline 0800 1111
- http://www.childline.org.uk
- http://www.youngminds.org.uk