Year 5 - September 2021

Hello and Welcome to Year 5,

My name is Miss Williamson and I am the teacher for Year 5 this academic year.  Also in Year 5 we have Mrs Johnson and Mrs Griffiths.

Below is some information about what we will be learning, our topics and some ideas on how you can help your child at home.  I hope you find it useful.

If you have any questions or queries about your child’s learning at school or at home, please do not hesitate to contact me.

Kind Regards,

Miss Williamson

Information for Year 5 Class

Topic:   Our topic throughout the Autumn Term is Explorers. We will be focusing on some explorers from the age of discovery, such as Christopher Columbus, before moving onto other significant explorers such as Matthew Henson and Amelia Earhart.

English:   Our first English book will be The Journey by Aaron Becker before moving onto The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane.  In the first half of term, we will work on setting descriptions and diary entries as well as narrative writing.  Whilst in the second half we will also look at poetry and biographies linked to Shackleton’s Journey.

Maths:   In maths, we will start with a recap on place value before moving onto addition and subtraction.  We will use the column method as well as estimating and inverse and efficient calculations. There will then be a short focus on statistics, particularly line graphs and timetables.  After half term the focus will return to the 4 operations, this time multiplication & division.  The term will finish with learning about area & perimeter. Throughout the term, children need to practise all their times tables, they need to know them at speed and be able to use them to calculate the linked division facts.  Some useful websites are: Topmarks, BBC Bitesize, Times Tables Rockstars and IXL found at https://uk.ixl.com/maths/year-5.

Religious Education (R.E):   In R.E. our learning will start with Creation and considering the stories and their meaning. We will then be providing opportunities for all pupils to consider the areas they would like to reflect and write prayers for. Towards half term, there will be a Multi Faith Week. After half term, we will learn about Advent.

Physical Education (PE): Until half term, we will do PE on Thursday afternoon.  After half term, we will start swimming at Tockington Manor on Wednesday mornings and have a shorter PE session on Thursday afternoons.

Homework:  Homework will go out on a Friday and be due back on a Wednesday.  It will includes reading each day for at least 10 minutes and recording a comment in their reading records.  It is important that parents still try to hear their child read, and we welcome a comment from you as well as your child.  You should also ask your children questions about what they have read: in particular asking them to summarise the story, make inferences and predictions, and comparisons to other books they have read. Reading is not restricted to levelled reading books- children should read different genres such as magazines, newspapers, instructions, information books and comics. There will also be weekly spellings to learn. The third part of the homework will be a maths activity to last about 20 minutes, this will be on paper, Times Table Rock Stars or Mathletics.