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Year 5

Welcome to the Year 5 class page – Mrs Finney, Mrs Wallace and Mr Clowes are looking forward to spending this last half term with you!

                                

Autumn 

Whole class reading.

We will read Under my Feet and King in the Car Park.

We will use these texts to explore key reading skills – vocabulary, summarise, infer, predict, explain and find evidence from the text to support our answers, whilst also enjoying these well-loved stories.

Maths

 

We will look at number and place value within 1,000,000. We will look at addition and subtraction finding missing numbers and solving word problems. We are following a new scheme called Power Maths which will enhance and embed our mathematical investigative skills using the mastery approach.

English

Book focus: Street Child

 

We will write a first-person narrative as a child entering the workhouse in Victorian London, focusing on atmosphere, fear and uncertainty. 

We will follow this sequence - 

  1. Immerse – Hook pupils in through reading, experiences, and model texts.
  2. Explore – Analyse the text features, grammar, and vocabulary (like the "genre detective" phase).
  3. Develop – Short, focused writing opportunities to practise key skills (sentence types, cohesive devices, dialogue, etc.).
  4. Plan – Create a shared and/or individual plan.
  5. Write – Independent writing (first draft).
  6. Edit & Improve – Peer/self-editing using success criteria.

Publish & Celebrate – Final piece and sharing (display, read aloud, etc.).

We will use our class book as inspiration for our own writing. We will learn key language and grammar skills

Ongoing throughout this and each term there will be a focus on punctuation and grammar skills and we focus on handwriting each day using the Letterjoin scheme.

Please help your child to practise at home, their login for Letterjoin is in their reading diaries.

RE - Creation and Covenant

We will explore not only that God created the world, but that God continues to reveal himself and form relationships with his people through covenants. We will discover that God chooses real people with strengths and weaknesses and invites them into a mission. The theological heart of this unit is that God is faithful. God calls and God forms his people through covenants grounded in love. Pupils learn that God's revelation to Moses from the burning bush to the giving of the commandments shows both God's holiness and his desire to guide his people into goodness. We will learn that commandments are not simply rules but expressions of love. They show how to live well with God and others. Jesus's great commandment emphasizes this, revealing that the love of God and neighbour is law, and justice, they see that God's covenants still speak today, inviting them to grow in goodness, responsibility, forgiveness, and service.

 Our Class Saint -  Oscar Romero

Oscar Romero was regarded as the spokesperson for truth and justice for the people. He taught that violence could be overcome by Christian love and was told by the Pope to have courage. Oscar Romero said, “Let my blood be a seed of freedom, and a sign that hope will soon be a reality.” We will work together to think about the incredible work of our Class Saint, and we will use his ideas to inspire our own so that we too can help those who do not have courage.

Feast Day: 24th March

History - Victorian Era

 

Our History will teach us where and when the Industrial Revolution was and who the monarch was at the time. Learn about Queen Victoria and her role in society, looking at the class systems during the Victorian era. We will learn about a variety of different events and inventions that had huge impacts on the British Empire under the Victorians. Explore how and why the empire spread so much under the Victorians. We will understand the importance of the railways in the Industrial Revolution. We will look at what the expansion of the British Empire meant for Great Britain and what was the impact on society. We will highlight how historians’ interpretations of the past can change over time when new evidence comes to light. Finally we will look at the influence and legacy of Industrial Revolution today and some of the most important elements and how historians interpret the British Empire.

Science

Our topic is Living things and their habitats

We will learn that living things reproduce asexually including bacteria, mould, algae and fungi.  This means they reproduce by themselves! We will learn that all living things can: move, respire, have senses, grow, reproduce, excrete and take in nutrition..

Music

Over the year we will continue to develop our skills on the recorder; this half term we will focus on learning to play music using the upper octave.  We will focus our learning on Northern Soul music; understanding how the music developed and the impact it has had on the music we listen to today.

Art

 

Topography.

We will look at different design and fonts to create an image of our own. We will be exploring how we can create typography through drawing and design, and use our skills to create personal and highly visual maps.

Computing –

We are game developers

- To combine sequences of instructions and procedures to turn devices on and off

- To design algorithms that use repetition and 2-way selection

- To use technology to control a device

PSHE – 

Being Me in My World.

We will look at being a citizen and about the rights and responsibilities that this brings. We will look at rewards and consequences and how behaviour affects groups. We will look at democracy and having a voice.

French

French will be taught on Thursdays by our specialist French teacher.

PE

Cricket and Football.

This half term, our PE is on a Monday and Wednesday.

Reading –

 

Children should read at home every night and have their diary signed by a guardian. Please aim to read for at least 15 minutes each night and enjoy discussing and asking your child questions about what they have read. Children will also have a reading for pleasure book from the school library to enjoy at home. 

Homework

  • Daily Maths homework is set to improve fluency.
  • Reading at home should take place five times a week. This will be monitored through daily diary checks.
  • Homework – English which will be reading comprehension or grammar, and Maths.
  • All passwords are in your child’s reading diary for the online homework
  • Handwriting can be practised at home using the Letterjoin scheme.
  • Spellings using the Grammarsaurus Morphs game or the Emile scheme.
  • Activelearn games will be set linked to our daily lessons and reading levels - the children's passwords are in their diary
  • Times tables on TTRockstar.