5Field - Mrs Joshua

5Craufurd - Miss Harris

Year 5 supported by Mrs Hart

Important dates:

Friday 11th October - Egyptian day

Key information: 

P.E. - Monday & Thursday

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 / red t-shirts, black trainers) and that long hair is tied up and earrings are removed on these days. During the colder months, black tracksuits are advised as we may be outside. 

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 (Book Talk) 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 listening to the children reading a range of texts and teaching them how to talk about books confidently and develop 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. 
Books will also be assigned on Rising Stars, our online reading system, but we ask that children complete the comprehension to ensure understanding of what they have read.

If children have read their book from school and their Rising Stars books, 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!

Our topic this half term is:

The Gift of The Nile

English -

In English we will be following, 'Place Value of Grammar and Punctuation'. During this unit, we will focus on different types of punctuation, words and sentences, so that we can understand what they are, using the correct terminology and how to use them effectively, therefore enhancing our work.

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 Secrets of a Sun King’ by Emma Carroll.

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. We shall engage in lots of practical activities and use resources to help consolidate this. Once secure, we will then progress on to adding and subtracting and multiplication and division.

R.E. -

Our key question this half term is, ‘What does it mean if God is holy and loving?’

Science -

In science, our focus will be forces. We will be carrying out lots of experiments to test the different forces such as, gravity, air resistance, friction and more.

French -

In French, we will be learning the names of different pets and animals and learning how to say what pets we have. We will engage in lots of fun songs and activities to help us learn.

P.E. -

One of our P.E. lessons will be lead by our sports coach and it will provide the children with the opportunity to be Play Leaders. With this award, the children will be trained to lead a P.E. lesson to KS1 children. Our other PE lesson will be football where we will focus on our dribbling and passing techniques.

PSHE & RSE - 

Our key question this half term is, ‘How can friends communicate safely?’ (Including how to use the internet and social media safely and what to do if they are worried.)

Topic - 

Come on an adventure with us as we travel back in time to ancient Egypt and discover their way of life. We will be locating Egypt on the map and experiencing what it would have been like to be Howard Carter discovering Tutankhamun’s tomb for the first time. We will be making canopic jars and try a little mummification of our own to understand the process. This is sure to be an interesting topic!

Competition Time!

Linking with our topic, we are asking children to design and make their own Egyptian headdress. All designs should be brought into school by Friday 4th October 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:

* Research an Egyptian God

* Make your own pyramid 

* Make your own sarcophagus 

* Watch some Egyptian Horrible Histories episodes

* Go to the library and find some fact books all about ancient Egypt!