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 write a detailed account of their Christmas break; a persuasive letter; historical fiction and debate an environmental topic. Alongside this they will study a variety of texts with a link to the industrial revolution and the Victorian era.
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.
HUMANITIES
HISTORY: Learning about the Industrial Revolution and the impact it had on Leeds.
GEOGRAPHY: As context for the local effects of the industrial revolution we will be looking at the conditions that led to Leeds becoming a textiles city and how trade links were established.
Science Looking at the properties of materials and how they can be changed and in some cases reverted back to their original state. In the second half of term we will be looking at physical changes to our body, linked to our SRE as part of PSHE.
RE: In R.E. the children are fortunate to have Jenny Leng coming in each week to explain stories from the Old Testament and in the second half of term we will look deeper into the Easter story as part of our Salvation unit
Computing: We will be looking at flat based data systems - both paper and computerised.
UNDERSTANDING THE ARTS
ART: This term the children will begin to look at textiles and Rahul Mistra, using the Art Access online scheme of learning.
MUSIC: We have started using a specialist music site called Charanga and are fortunate to have Mr Gleeson the music lead taking the lessons. In addition the children will also receive weekly tuition on playing the ukelele.
PSHE – As part of their SRE children will be looking at the changes that will occur during puberty.
P.E. – This half term in P.E. we will focus on hockey and OAA which looks at completing an array of physical challenges using strategy and team work. PE is on a Tuesday and Friday 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 Friday 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
Welcome back - week ended 24th February
Peter Dalrymple (PDalrymple) on: Year 5 Class Blog
Hello, and welcome back to the new Spring half term, I hope everybody had a restful/fun packed break. The children dived straight back into the learning and completed their truss bridges made from spaghetti on Monday. On Tuesday we had a whistle stop introduction to Charles Darwin and his theories on natural selection and adaptation (please chat to your child about this to iron out any remaining misconceptions as it's a tricky concept for them to grasp). The ground work having been laid we then began our new writing based on the poem ' Moth: An evolution story' which describes how peppered moths were impacted by the industrial revolution. In maths we continued learning about decimals down to thousandths and their fraction equivalents. The children started the Fresh Prince of Bel Air unit in music so feel free to get down with your child and embarrass them in the supermarket by rapping along to it and breaking out some moves. We ended the week with an RE unit on Salvation - the Easter story, looking at the stations of the cross.
Don't forget next Thursday is World book day.
Have a great weekend.
This week's spellings are based around the 'or' phoneme:
forty
scorch
absorb
decorate
afford
enormous
category
tornado
according
opportunity
Welcome back - week ended 24th February
Peter Dalrymple (PDalrymple) on: Year 5 Class Blog
Don't forget next Thursday is World book day.
Have a great weekend.
This week's spellings are based around the 'or' phoneme:
forty
scorch
absorb
decorate
afford
enormous
category
tornado
according
opportunity
Week ended 10th February
Peter Dalrymple (PDalrymple) on: Year 5 Class Blog
Hello,
Well we’ve made it through the darkest half term and now spring is in the air, summer is coming and the children are half way through their time in Year 5 already. Where does the time go? This week the children had their final visit from Jenny Leng, got to grips with decimals and fraction equivalents and read about how the Industrial Revolution affected Liverpool in the 19th Century. They have written a Victorian set piece of historical fiction, completed their investigation into levers and played dodgeball in P.E. This week has also been ‘internet safety week’. The children had a special collective worship and then a series of daily lessons on the pleasures and concerns on the internet. They even taught me what the point of Tik Tok is (though I’m still not convinced). We were supposed to end the week constructing bridges but the website hasn't let us view the videos so we have postponed it until the start of next term. Instead we finished off our Lowry pictures from last week.
There are no spellings for the holiday.
Have a great half term.
week ending 3rd February
Peter Dalrymple (PDalrymple) on: Year 5 Class Blog
Well, we made it through January. Spring is just around the corner and the children are looking forward to half term next week, the mid point of their time in Year 5. This week we have started writing our historical fiction story based around Ruby in the Smoke, a girl from Victorian London. In maths we have finally completed fractions and will shortly be moving onto decimals (I have based some of this week's mathletics on decimals to help them prepare, so they might be a bit confused at first). In computing we continued to program our Sparkles using the IF and THEN commands for Selection within a conditional loop. In guided reading we have been introduced to the character of Phileas Fogg from Around the World in 80 days. Science saw us continuing our look at simple mechanisms used in machinery. This week we had a look at levers. Ask your child to explain what one is or to spot some in the home.. For art we dived into the world of Lowry and his matchstalk men and matchstalk cats and dogs to discover how to replicate perspective in his pictures of industry. Jenny Leng continued telling them stories from the Old Testament and in P.E. we continued to work on fitness with skipping.
This week's spellings are more homophones so again it is important to learn the context for use.(be careful with the last two)
altar
alter
ascent
assent
bridal
bridle
serial
cereal
compliment
complement
week ended 27th January
Peter Dalrymple (PDalrymple) on: Year 5 Class Blog
Hello again. This week we have enjoyed learning about the Chinese New Year in guided reading and more fraction multiplication in maths. The children also planned, completed and edited their persuasive letters to the owners of Harrods, no less. The children learnt more Bible stories from Jenny Leng and played volleyball in P.E. In computing the children learnt about conditional loops (ask them to explain) and how to program them into their sparkles with an off switch. In history the children learnt about the Factory Act of 1833 and working conditions for children in the factories during the industrial revolution. The children were quite shocked at the hardships endured and promised never to complain about having to tidy their bedroom or what's for dinner again! On Friday we used the VR headsets to explore Victorian London in anticipation of our new writing unit this week.
There are several children with many outstanding and incomplete assignments on Mathletics. Mathletics is a chance for your child to put into practise what they have learnt in class and should only take around 15 minutes each week. If you have lost your child's login, please feel free to email me so I can reissue it. I'm just thinking ahead to Wednesday, should you want something to keep them occupied for a while without need of supervision during the day.
This week's spellings are homophones and near homophones so it is vital you learn the meaning so you know when to use which one:
stationery
stationary
steal
steel
wary
weary
who's
whose
fate
fete
