Welcome to Year 5
Year 5 Curriculum Map
Year 5 Essential Information
Below are some brief details about our learning this half term and some key information to help the half term run smoothly. Please do keep an eye out for regular information about our class on the new school and any last minute information or changes on the school app.
English: In class we will continue to follow the Jane Considine scheme which proved successful last year. The children will finish reading the Explorer and write of their time at Ingleborough for the first few weeks. From mid-May the children will embark on their Egyptian based topic and write a diary based on their new class reader - The Sun King ; a biography of Hatsheput and finally some food based cooking instructions.
Reading: Children are still expected to be reading at home and should all have their own book to take home or one of their own choice, that is at the expected standard for their age . We ask that the children read at home at least 3 x per week. They have been issued with their own Planner in which a parent/guardian should sign to say your child has completed the required reading. The children are also expected to write down 5 new words they encounter during their reading each week and define them in the planner. The planners will need to be checked in school on Monday, Wednesday and Friday. In class we have whole class guided reading on a range of fiction and non fiction texts, 3 x per week as well as daily story time. Some children requiring extra assistance will be heard regularly in class. You can help your child’s progress by hearing them read for at least 5 minutes every day or questioning them on what they have read. It really is the key to all their future success.
Maths: We will continue to follow the White Rose Maths programme of study and will revisit and extend multiplication of fractions and decimals to thousandths. Children are also set 3 mathletics tasks each week which should be completed at home. Please email me if you require their login details. We also recommend they keep practising their multiplication tables on TT Rockstars at least 3 times a week, at home, as this will benefit their division and fraction work immensely. They will also continue to use TTRS in school on a regular basis. This term the children will tackle angles inshapes ; position & direction ; more fun with decimals ; negative numbers and converting units of measurement.
HUMANITIES
HISTORY: Learning about the ancient Egyptian civilisation.
GEOGRAPHY: Map and fieldwork based around their residential to Ingleborough.
Science oo There will be a stand alone unit on Living things and their habitats in the Amazon rainforest..
RE: In R.E. the children will be learning about Islam
Computing: We will be looking at selection in quizzes using Scratch
UNDERSTANDING THE ARTS
ART: This term the children will make waistcoats in D&T. In art children will be studying artistic facets of architecture.
MUSIC: We have started using a specialist music site called Charanga and are fortunate to have Mr Gleeson the music lead taking the lessons.
PSHE – As part of their SRE children will be looking at managing risk ; first aid ; and handling money.
P.E. – This half term in P.E. we will focus on badminton and athletics in readiness for sportsday. PE days have changed and it is now on a Tuesday and Wednesday so please send your child to school already dressed in their P.E. kit.
Things to remember:
- All children should bring a flask or bottle of water to school. This should be taken home and washed every day.
Please read with your child for 5 minutes every day or questioning them on what they have read. It really is the key to all their future success.
- PE is on a Tuesday and Wednesday for this half term. Children should come dressed in their P.E. kit and will stay in it for the rest of the day. A change of clothing is not necessary. Children need to come to school in a white t-shirt and black shorts or black tracksuit plus trainers.
- Planners should be brought into school on a Monday, Wednesday & Friday, signed by a guardian to say they have heard their child read and with 5 spellings + definitions each week.
- Spellings are sent home on a Friday evening. The subsequent spelling practice of the words is the following Thursday. Spelling practice will take the form of dictated sentences. The children will receive a score out of 10 for the practiced words and another score out of 10 for the correct punctuation in their sentences and correct spellings of common words they should already know.
- Mathletics homework will usually consist of 3 tasks I have set the children. Please ensure the children attempt these before playing on other areas of Mathletics as their scores are fed through to me and allow me to target any areas the children might be struggling with. If you have lost your login, please contact Mr Routledge
- Children access TTRockstars 3 times a week in school, However, it is recommended that they spend 5 minutes on it every day to get super secure and quicker.
- Children should not bring anything to school other than book bag, school book, planner, packed lunch and a water bottle.
May I remind parents and carers to ensure that all of your child’s clothing is named as it makes finding the right owner so much
. Thank you for your continued support.
Should you need to get in touch, please contact the school office or my email address
Glen.routledge@adel-st-john.leeds.sch.uk
Mr Routledge
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Year 5 Class Blog
week ending 1st March
Peter Dalrymple (PDalrymple) on: Year 5 Class Blog
Hello again,
This week the children wrote a Victorian mystery, got better at the ukulele, disovered thousandths in fraction and decimal form, learnt about Henry II and Dr Barnardo and tried to navigate the hall using just 5 feet and 4 hands! In geography the children learnt about the importance of rivers in the industrial revolution and where the River Aire runs. In Computing they looked at the benefits and how to use a computerised database while in French they learnt the words needed to discuss your family in French and in art learnt about fashion designers.
Our spellings this week are based around the 'au' sound:
pause
cause
sauce
fraud
launch
author
August
applaud
astronaut
restaurant
Have a great weekend!
Week ending 23rd February
Peter Dalrymple (PDalrymple) on: Year 5 Class Blog
Hello, and welcome back to the Spring 2 half term. The holidays are long forgotten already! Thank you to those who were able to attend our open morning this morning, it was lovely to see so many of you and the children really loved having you there, even though it was a bit cramped. This week we had our final visit from Jenny Leng, began our journey with decimals and their fraction equivalents and continued to be ever more fabulous with ukuleles. In writing we have been writing a Victorian mystery and in reading looking at the prominence of Liverpool in the industrial revolution. Hockey is our game this term for PE and the children enjoyed getting stuck in (no broken fingers, yet).In ICT we hd a final crack at making our engines work, but to no avail, so we are now looking at databases. In French the children have been learning about the family and in Geography we learnt where Leeds is! (please ask your child to find it on a map). And in anticipation of our Ingleborough trip (watch this space for further news, soon) , Mr Gleeson has been teaching them songs to sing around the camp fire!
This week's spellings are to practise the OR sound or spelling:
forty
scorch
absorb
decorate
afford
enormous
category
tornado
according
opportunity
Have a great weekend!
week ending 9th February
Peter Dalrymple (PDalrymple) on: Year 5 Class Blog
Hello,
Well it's been a short one but we've made it to the end of another half term and the children are now at the half way stage of their Year 5 journey (They grow up so fast *sob*). We completed our very successful second unit on fractions - ask them anything - and did some descriptive writing on settings. We learnt about the awful conditions children faced in Victorian times and spent many lessons discussing how to control our tech rather than having it control us and how to counteract fake facts on the internet. In P.E.the children played some cracking games of netball and we finished off with a mini dodgeball tournament.
The spellings to learn over half term are more homophones:
principal
principle
profit
prophet
descent
dissent
desert
dessert (look carefully)
draft
draught
Have a great half term!
week ending 2nd February
Peter Dalrymple (PDalrymple) on: Year 5 Class Blog
Hello again,
Hopefully, we've made it through the bulk of winter now, the evenings are getting lighter and Spring is just around the corner. In class, the children have been researching Harrods and writing a persuasive letter, asking them to reduce their prices for visiting Santa (it's only £15,000 at present). In maths, we returned to fractions and learnt how to multiply them with integers and in guided reading we learnt more about Phileas Fogg's journey around the world. The children continue to astound their ukelele teacher with their progress and musicality and impress Ms Leng with their knowledge of the old testament. In French, the children learnt to count to twenty, played games of netball in P.E. and continued programming their crumbles in computing. For science the children investigated which solutes could be dissolved in solvents to create new solutions (not as dangerous as it sounds. Ask your child to explain the terms).
This week's spellings are more homophones and near homophones, so it is important that your child understands the definition of the word :
alter
altar
assent
ascent
bridle
bridal
serial
cereal
compliment
complement
Have a great weekend!
week ending 26th January
Peter Dalrymple (PDalrymple) on: Year 5 Class Blog
Hello,
Another fun packed week in school saw the children continuing to impress their ukelele teacher on Monday, as well as more Old Testament tales from Jenny Leng. In PSHE they have learnt about the dangers of smoking cigarettes and other substances. In writing the children finished writing their persuasive letters to Scrooge and, in a Dickens themed week, read the opening chapter of Oliver Twist (count those semi colons!) for guided reading. For maths, the children completed their unit on formal multiplication and division with some rock hard word problems. Our topic of the Industrial Revolution continued with the children looking at life in the Victorian era and examining why certain cities prospered more than others based on their geography. In p.e. we continued playing netball and practising cartwheels (not in the same lesson) with mixed results! This afternoon we finally managed to get our crumbles and sparkles working, with much success. You'll have to ask your child to explain that one.
This week's spellings are homophones and near homophones so it is vital that you learn the meaning of each in order to use the right one within the context of the sentence.
stationery
stationary
steal
steel
wary
weary
who's
whose
fate
fete
Have a great weekend!