5Field - Mrs Joshua

5Craufurd - Miss Harris

Year 5 supported by Miss Elliott & Mrs Cheema

Important dates:

Key information: 

P.E. -  Monday & 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:

Healthy Planet

English -

In English we will be learning texts that focus on our world and the different effects that climate change and pollution are having. We will be focusing on the text, ‘The Promise’, by Nicola Davies. We will learn the text through our Talk4writing format and will also send a copy home to learn. This unit of work is going to teach the children how to use lots of detail to describe. They will do this using atmospheric language and detailed descriptions using similes, alliteration, metaphors and personification. 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 Whale Watchers’ by Dougie Poynter. 

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 continue to work on fractions. 

R.E. -

Our key question this half term is, ‘How can following God bring freedom and justice?’ 

Science -

In science, our focus will be living things and their habitats. This links nicely to our topic focus this half term.

French -

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

P.E. -

One of our P.E. lessons (dance) will be lead by our sports coach. Our other PE lesson will be basketball. We will always try to do P.E. outside where appropriate, so warmer clothing in the colder months may be needed.

PSHE & RSE - 

Our key question this half term is, ‘How can drugs common to everyday life affect health?’ 

Topic - 

We will be looking at our World and learning all about renewable and non-renewable energy, pollution as well as climate change and the effects it is having on our world. We will work hard to make conscious decisions about how we can make a difference to our planet, to look after it and encourage others to do the same. In this topic, we have cover lots of Geography and have plenty of art opportunities. It is a moving topic that really brings perspective. 

Competition Time!

Focusing on our planet, we are asking children to make a 3D model of an animal in its habitat. 

Be creative!  

All designs should be brought into school by Monday 9th February 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 recycling, renewable energy, looking after the planet etc 

* Use some unwanted items to create a piece of art 

* Use a tally chart to encourage those in your family to walk more often 

* Write to Blue Peter to share what we are doing in school - you may even be awarded a Blue Peter badge! 

* Go to the library and find some fact books all about how to look after our world 

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!