5Field - Mrs Joshua

5Craufurd - Miss Harris

Year 5 supported by Mrs Graham

Important dates:

4th & 6th March - Parents Evening

9th May - Cadbury World Trip

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:

Ancient 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 Explorer’ by Katherine Rundell.

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 and decimals and percentages. We will also 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 Eid important to Muslims? How is religion portrayed in the news?’

Science -

In science, our focus will be materials.

French -

In French, our focus is 'En classe'. We will engage in lots of fun songs to help us learn.

P.E. -

In P.E. we will be participating in basketball based games and activities to help develop our skills plus swimming lessons.

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 headdress?! These will look great during our fabulous finish feast!

Be creative! 

All designs should be brought into school by Thursday 16th 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