Year 5

   ENGLISH

Using the book, ‘Wildlands, we will explore and compare settings, characters and storyline.  For our non-fiction work, we will be writing discussion texts focused on whether or not rewilding is a good idea.

Alongside our reading work, we will be exploring a wide range of Tier 2 and Tier 3 vocabulary taken from the texts.  We will play with vocabulary to aid our understanding and extend our understanding through finding synonyms and antonyms, analysing prefixes, suffixes and root words, investigating shades of meaning as well as using words correctly within and across a range of contexts.

   MATHS

This half term, our learning will continue to focus on place value where we will recap on Roman Numerals and learn about using numbers up to one million.  We will also learn about addition and subtraction, including using mental methods and start learning about multiplication and division.

 SCIENCE

Our Science this half-term is ‘Living things and their habitats: Life Cycles and Reproduction, which focuses on the life cycle of flowering plants and the different ways in which plants can reproduce.  We will also learn about and the life cycle of mammals, amphibians, birds and insects, comparing their similarities and differences.

Please click the link below for the Science knowledge and vocabulary mat for this term.

Science Aut 1

 GEOGRAPHY

This term we will be learning about our local area in Geography, looking at maps and identifying locations using grid references. We will explore the human and physical features or our local area and consider what it might be like for others visiting our local area.  We will also conduct fieldwork, recording data from our local area.

Please click the link below for the Geography knowledge and vocabulary mat for this term.

Geography Aut 1

 RE

This half term our focus is the Jewish religion, exploring the question ‘Why is the Torah so important to Jewish people?’  We will be learning about what the Torah is, why it is so important as well as other important practices within the Jewish religion.

Please click the link below for the RE knowledge and vocabulary mat for this term.

RE Aut 1

 PE

Children will have two PE sessions each week – please make sure your child wears their PE kit to school every Tuesday and Thursday.  Please make sure your child has their school PE kit on, including their school hoodie.  For safety reasons, all watches and jewellery must be removed for PE lessons. If your child wears earrings, they must be able to remove them independently or cover them with medical tape.  Please send medical tape in with your child if needed.  Alternatively, it may be easier to leave earrings at home on PE days.

  COMPUTING

The children will continue to learn about online safety through our new resource, ‘Project Evolve’.  This half term, they will be learning their online identify and online relationships and how to make safe and responsible choices.  Within our creative computing curriculum through ‘Digital Learning Cornwall’, we will be learning to use selection with Microbits.

 MUSIC

This term we will be learning to listen to, appraising and responding to music as part of Charanga Music as we learn about Melody and Harmony.  We will learn to sing and perform different songs, using instruments to accompany the music.

DT

In DT this half-term, we will be carrying out market research activities, then using the research to design and sew mobile phone cases for a specific consumer.

  PSHE

During this term, the children will be learning about Relationships, focusing on families and friendships.  We will be using picture books, stories and non-fiction books to explore and discuss a range of issues relating to friendships such as ‘peer influence’, how to resolve difficulties in friendships and the importance of asking permission and the right to give or refuse consent.

MFL

This term we will continue learning with ‘Language Angels’ in French.  This half-term our focus will be on French phonics, focusing on recognising and pronouncing a range of commonly used phonemes.

HOME LEARNING

 In year 5, children still need to read lots! All children are expected to read at home most nights for 15 – 20 minutes either to themselves or with an adult. This could be their school Accelerated Reader book, listening to a story read by someone else or sharing a favourite book. All are equally valuable. Talking about what they have read is also vital to help develop comprehension skills. This is particularly beneficial to the children when completing their Accelerated Reader quizzes.  All children have a reading record book in which parents, carers or the children themselves can record what they have read or make any comments.

In addition, children all have access to Times Tables Rockstars – we have a weekly times tables check in class, so please encourage your child to keep practising their times tables – five or ten minutes a day is likely to be more beneficial than an hour once a week.