Welcome to Year 5!

              The team is Miss Ash, Mr Goegan and Mrs Bond.

Spring 2

Learning Journey

This half term we will be looking into Social Justice and Equity. We will be looking at how fairness may not always mean equal treatment, about the causes and effects of inequality and linking these themes to all of our learning throughout our curriculum. As geographers, we will be learning about the Arctic and the impact humans have had on global warming.

Maths

This half term in maths, we will finish decimals and percentages to ensure that the children’s understanding on the concept of equivalent values. Following on from this, we be focusing on angles and shape and space.

We recap all the maths ideas we have taught so far at the beginning of every lesson and keep practising strategies we have learnt.

All children need to know their times tables and should be practising them at home.

Every child has a login for Times Tables Rockstars and Maths IXL.

English

We will be writing a persuasive piece this half term based on Hidden Figures. Children will learn about the struggles that the African American women, who worked for NASA, faced and how this is an important part of history.

In book study, we are reading Jess Butterworth’s ‘Running on the Roof of the World’ whilst exploring the global theme of social justice and equity.

Home Learning

• Weekly home learning will be set on a Friday on Spelling Shed.
• IXL
• Home reading 
• Spellings
• Times tables Rockstars

It is important that your child completes the above tasks as it improves their learning in school.

For your information

• PE for this half term is on Monday and Friday (the proper PE uniform of a plain white top and plain black bottoms is necessary).
• Spellings are given out each week on Class Dojo and on paper as well as activities on Spelling Shed.
• Your child has until Thursday to complete any homework that they have been set.
• Please could you make sure that your child has a water bottle in school.

Please make sure your child attends school. Every day counts.  

Autumn 2

Learning Journey

Our Learning Journey this half term will continue to be about North America.  This will start with learning about the different states in the United States in Geography, followed by the triangular slave trade and the civil rights movement and segregation in the United States in History. This will link to black British history including how the Windrush generation helped England. 

We will also delve into the features of coasts and compare a UK coastline to that of one in Jamaica.

Maths

During Maths lessons we will be covering:

Multiplication

Division

Fractions

It is important that your child practises their multiplication tables and division facts as this will help consolidate their learning.

English

This half term we will be writing a non-chronological report. This will be based on the RMS Titanic that hit an iceberg on its maiden voyage from UK to America.  This will link in with our big question and global theme which is power and governance.

Our Book Study book this half term is A Boy Called Christmas by Matt Haig.

Home Learning

• IXL
• Home reading
• Timetables
• Timetable Rockstars
• Mirodo (logins will be given out)

We will set homework each week on Spelling Shed. This will need to be completed by the following Thursday.

Dates for your diary

• Y5’s cinema trip is on Friday 11^th November.
• Parent’s Evenings will be in the week beginning 7^th November.
• End of term is on Friday 16^th December.

For your information

• PE is on Mondays and Thursdays and the correct PE uniform is needed. At the moment, the children are asked to come to school in PE kit on their PE days.  
• Please could you make sure that your child has a water bottle in school every day.

Please could you make sure that your child has the correct uniform for school and brings a coat every day.

Autumn 1

Learning Journey

Our Learning Journey this half term will be about North America focusing on the theme of ‘Human Rights’.  This will start with a history focus, learning about the American Revolution, followed by indigenous tribes and the impact European immigrants had on them.  For geography, we will delve into the various biomes of North America including the tundra and grasslands and the features and animals that inhabit them.

Maths

During Maths lessons we will be covering:

Place value

Addition

Subtraction

Multiplication

As the children have missed chunks of their learning during the pandemic, we will be having a focus on number and arithmetic. Therefore daily practise of what we have been learning in lessons and times tables is vital.

English

This half term we will be writing a narrative. This will be based on ‘A Story Like the Wind’ by Gill Lewis. This will link in with our question, ‘Should we be given the freedom to move freely around the world?’ We will be looking at year 5 specific grammar expectations and spellings from the year 5 and year 6 word list. For book study, we are looking at the book ‘Resist’ which is non fiction and explores our ‘Human Rights’ global curriculum topic.

Home Learning

Please make sure that you are signed into your child’s Dojo account to receive the latest information from school. We also encourage:

• IXL
• Home reading
• Timetables
• Purple Mash
• Timetable Rockstars

We will set weekly independent home learning on class dojo and will expect all children to complete their homework every week and post it on their dojo or hand it in on paper.

For your information

• PE is on Mondays and Thursdays and the correct PE uniform is needed. At the moment, the children are asked to come to school in PE kit on their PE days.  
• Please could you make sure that your child has a water bottle in school every day.
• Please could you make sure that your child has the correct uniform for school and brings a coat every day.