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
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!
week ending 19th January
Peter Dalrymple (PDalrymple) on: Year 5 Class Blog
It's been too cold outside, this week, so we've been keeping the children busy indoors this week. The children continued, to a very good standard, with their ukelele practise and were lucky enough to receive the first of 5 regular visits from Jenny Leng to discuss stories from the Old Testament. In maths we moved onto multiplication of 4 digits by a 2 digit number using the formal method (the way you used to do multiplication in the olden days!). If you get the chance please ask your child to show you how they do it, as practise is key to embed the multi step nature of the number problems. In writing we began to write a persuasive letter to Scrooge and studied the text Street Child in guided reading. We played more netball in P.E. and continued to research the industrial revolution in our afternoons. Today, in science, we investigated the properties of materials and which were magnetic and which were conductors of electricity.
Our spellings this week are based around the suffix -ness
happiness
hardness
madness
nastiness
silliness
tidiness
childishness
willingness
carelessness
foolishness
Have great weekend!