Welcome to Year 5
Year 5 Curriculum Map 2022-23
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.
Mathletics: Children are assigned 3 activities each week to complete as homework. Once the set activity is complete, children can access all areas of the site.
TTRockstars: Children access TTRockstars 3 times per week in class. As we move into equivalent and simplified fractions, continued practise on the site at home will help them even more. Just 2 minutes each day is enough.
Reading: Children will have a school book which they bring home. We ask that they read for a minimum of 3 x10mins per week. Each time they read they should record the number of pages they’ve read. Each week I would like them to identify and define 5 new words they come across. A book report is only required upon completion of the book. Please initial the reading record to confirm they have read. We will check the reading records on a Monday, Wednesday or Friday so they need to bring their records in on these days. Ideally they should bring their book in and take it home every day. Guided Reading sessions will continue daily as a whole class reading lesson.
Spellings: Weekly spellings will be put on the blog website each weekend to be practised in class the following Thursday. The spelling tests will be on full sentences using other words they should know. They need to spell all the words in the sentence correctly and punctuate it. Each week there will be at least one number word within the sentences. Please look at them with your children, read them by segmenting the sounds first and then blending, discuss meanings, try and notice them when reading or write sentences using them.
PE: In PE this half term we will doing Fitness and Netball. PE days are Monday and Wednesday and children should come to school wearing their PE kit – black shorts or track pants, white t-shirt, black jacket and trainers.
Things to remember:
- All children should bring a flask or bottle of water to school. This should be taken home and washed every day.
- Named pumps must be worn in school. Children should be able to tie laces quickly if they have lace-up pumps/outdoor shoes and pumps should be checked by a parent every half term to ensure they are in good condition to prevent trip hazards.
- Named, appropriate clothing for the weather should be brought every day – please ensure your child has a coat if rain is forecast or looks likely, especially as we head towards the winter.
- School Policy is that, other than for religious reasons, children should not wear jewellery in school apart from a watch. These need to be removed for PE lessons
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Year 5 Class Blog 2022-23
Welcome back - week ended 24th February
Peter Dalrymple (PDalrymple) on: Year 5 Class Blog 2022-23
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 2022-23
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 2022-23
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 2022-23
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 2022-23
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
