Adel St John The Baptist

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 22nd December

Peter Dalrymple (PDalrymple) on: Year 5 Class Blog

Well, we made it! The children have had a fantastic week of parties, singing, making robotic doodlers, writing poems, singing, learning about levers and pulleys, answering philosophical questions in R.E. and more singing.

Thank you so much for your exceedingly generous gifts for myself and Mr Gleeson. We both wish you all a Merry Christmas and a restful holiday. We've had a great first term in Year 5 which we plan to continue on into the new year.

Best wishes

=Mr Routledge & Mr Gleeson


week ending 22nd December

Peter Dalrymple (PDalrymple) on: Year 5 Class Blog

Well, we made it! The children have had a fantastic week of parties, singing, making robotic doodlers, writing poems, singing, learning about levers and pulleys, answering philosophical questions in R.E. and more singing.

Thank you so much for your exceedingly generous gifts for myself and Mr Gleeson. We both wish you all a Merry Christmas and a restful holiday. We've had a great first term in Year 5 which we plan to continue on into the new year.

Best wishes

=Mr Routledge & Mr Gleeson


Week ending 15th December

Peter Dalrymple (PDalrymple) on: Year 5 Class Blog

Hello,

We’re almost there! The children have been getting into full Christmas swing, this week. They watched the KS1 Nativity on Monday, celebrated Christingle on Tuesday and had Christmas lunch on Thursday with lots of learning in between.  We finished our anti bullying poem sentence stacking, continued to get the better of fractions by moving on to mixed number addition and subtraction. In guided reading we have been enjoying analysing the first chapter of Clockwork, a spooky tale for Christmas, that the children are loving. In R.E. we looked into how Christians celebrate Christmas and in computing the children have been practicing their videoing techniques and creating storyboards. And in between we found time for French, Music and P.E.

This week the spellings have a Christmas theme

Christmas

carols

Nativity

wrapping

turkey

mistletoe

decorations

wreath

holly

sleigh

Have a great weekend!


Week ending 8th December

Peter Dalrymple (PDalrymple) on: Year 5 Class Blog

Hello again,

This week the children visited church to mark the start of Advent and enjoyed a wonderful service. Back at school they have been trying their hand at writing poetry on the theme of bullying  and have now moved on to adding and subtracting mixed numbers in maths. They investigated gravity in science (which resulted in a few broken cups), and studied Russian biomes in geography. In between learning have been assessment tests to show us how far they have advanced this term.

This week's spellings are on Y5 statutory spellings

vegetable

vehicle

bruise

soldier

stomach

recommend

leisure

privilege

occur

neighbour

Have a great weekend


Week ending 1st December

Peter Dalrymple (PDalrymple) on: Year 5 Class Blog

Hello again and welcome to the start of the madness that is the run in to Christmas. As if the children weren’t already excited enough we also had snow this week and the Christmas tree was delivered which got everybody in a super festive mood. Thank you to everyone who made a tree decoration, they look fantastic. In class the children have been doing some out of this world independent writing and continued to grapple with comparing and ordering fractions in maths. They have read about Isaac Newton, learnt various filming techniques for video, practised ordering some ice cream in French (very seasonal!) and in art they began to make their spacemen pictures and continued to learn about discrimination in PSHE.

This week’s spellings are to practice the suffix -ment

equipment

environment

government 

parliament 

enjoyment 

document 

management 

movement 

replacement 

statement

 

Have a great weekend


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