5Field - Mrs Joshua

5Craufurd - Miss Harris

Year 5 supported by Mrs Edgar

Important dates:

Key information: 

P.E. - Thursday & 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 / 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 -

Despite our topic remaining as an Egyptian focus, in English we will be making a cross curricular link with our Science. We will be focusing on the text, ‘Alien Landing’ adapted by Pie Corbett. 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 create and build the setting using atmospheric language and descriptions. 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 Jamie Drake Equation’ by Christopher Edge. 

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 and subtraction problems. We shall engage in lots of practical activities and use resources to help consolidate this. We will also be progressing on to multiplication and division. 

R.E. -

Our key question this half term is, ‘What would Jesus do?’ 

Science -

In science, our focus will be space. We have lots of cross curricular links with our English and ICT for this topic - the children will love carrying out research and exploring the planets and the universe. 

French -

 In French, we will be learning all about planets and learning how to describe them. 

P.E. -

 In P.E. lessons the children will be learning gymnastics skills by a professional GB gymnast. What a fantastic opportunity! Our other PE session will be dodgeball - a firm favourite!

PSHE & RSE - 

Our key question this half term is, 'What decisions can people make with money?’ 

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!

Focusing on space, we are asking children to design and make a solar system. 

Be creative!  

All designs should be brought into school by Monday 9th December 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 your own mnemonic to help you remember the order of the planets 

* Research a planet 

* Make a wanted poster for an alien  

* Research an astronaut 

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