5Field - Mrs Joshua

5Craufurd - Miss Harris

Year 5 supported by Miss Elliott, Mrs Cheema & Mr Lawrence

Important dates:

Forest School -

5F - Wednesday mornings

5C - Thursday mornings

Key information: 

P.E. -  Friday

Children will come to school in their P.E. kits on their allocated P.E. days. Please ensure that children are wearing the correct P.E. kit (black shorts, joggers or leggings, red polo shirts, black trainers, black socks, red fleece for the colder months) and that long hair is tied up and earrings are removed on these days. 

Reading

We value reading and have fabulous reading areas for the children to enjoy. We actively promote reading at home, aiming for 15 minutes per evening. Each class has an engaging, fun reading incentive, where the children can move their names around on the display each day in recognition of their efforts with home reading and can earn a treat at the end of the week.

We have a daily reading lesson which will develop your child’s passion for reading as well as their comprehension skills. The daily reading session will always start with the teacher reading to the children. We will be exploring and discussing the language, vocabulary, feelings and themes within a variety of high-quality texts. In addition to this, we will be looking at a range of texts and teaching them how to read with expression, focusing on punctuation and to talk about books confidently, developing their comprehension skills to a deeper level.

Books will be changed on Fridays. 
Remember - Please make sure that reading diaries and books are in school everyday and that you comment in and sign your child’s reading records each time they read to you. 

If children have read their book from school, we encourage children to read books from home. Why not visit the library? It's the perfect opportunity to look at different texts and find an author you love!

Water bottles

Please send water bottles filled with fresh water everyday. 
 

DoodleLearning

New activities will be assigned each week. Please ensure children log in and engage with the activities. We recommend that children take part in 5-10 minutes of spelling and maths every day - little and often. This helps embed the children's learning into their long term memory ensuring that they are secure. Children have the opportunity to earn lots of fun, exciting prizes!

Rewards in Year 5

Children will continue to earn Dojo points for positive behaviour, learning and displaying our school values. Children can also earn 'Spins of the Wheel' which can award them up to 50 Dojo points! Children will also have the opportunity to trade in their Dojo points for a variety of different awards and prizes.

Our topic this half term is:

Magnificent Maya

English -

In English we will be learning a traditional Mayan myth/folktale called, The Rain Player. We will learn the adapted text through our Talk4writing format and will also send a copy home to learn. This unit of work focuses on dialogue and how to lay out speaking between characters as well as moving the action forward. We will be learning 'speech sandwiches' which will help with this. We will continue to encourage the children to use what we have learned in our English lessons too, such as: detailed descriptions, expanded noun phrases, fronted adverbials, 2a sentences, similes, alliteration, metaphors and personification and they will then progress onto writing their own myth. At the start of each English lesson, children have the opportunity to edit their work based on the feedback given by the teacher - green for good, pink for think. 

Guided reading -

In guided reading we will be using the text, ‘The Maya Sacrifice’ by Josh Lacey. 

Maths -

In Maths, we will be working hard to ensure that all children are secure with their place value with numbers up to one million as well as exposing the children to plenty of addition, subtraction, multiplication and division problems regularly, as it is important that children are secure with the four number operations. We shall engage in lots of practical activities and use resources to help consolidate our learning. We will focus on finding the perimeter and area of shapes and will expose the children to plenty of reasoning problems to explain their workings. 

R.E. -

Our key question this half term is, 'Why is the story of Adam and Eve called ‘The Fall’? 

How do we know what is right and wrong?'

Science -

In science, our focus will be materials. 

French -

In French our unit focuses on festivals. We will engage in lots of fun songs and activities to help us learn. 

P.E. -

In PE, we will be learning skills to play badminton.

PSHE & RSE - 

Our key question this half term is, ‘What jobs would we like?’ 

Topic - 

We will be looking at the Maya and how they lived. We will be using our previous historical knowledge to compare the Maya civilisation to what we were doing in Britain at that time. We will be identifying what the Maya did to help us today and what we have learned from them. We will also research why the Mayan empire declined. We will have a fabulous finish with a celebration feast filled with activities, as well as a wonderful (tasty) trip to Cadbury World. 

Competition Time!

Can you make a Maya-Inspired Ceremonial Mask?! Be creative!  

All designs should be brought into school by Monday 18th May for judging. Winners will be chosen from each class and they will earn a special prize!

We can’t wait to see them!

Good luck! 

Optional additional activities:

* Make a poster about a Maya God 

* Research the Maya civilisation  

* Compare the Maya to the Ancient Egyptians 

* Produce some Maya art 

* Go to the library and find some fact books all about the Ancient Maya tribe 

Please bring any additional activities into school with you to share with your teacher & class - we would LOVE to see them & you may even be awarded some dojo points too!