Year 5

ENGLISH

Using the book, ‘The 1000 year old Boy’, and ‘Viking Voyagers’ as our inspiration, we will explore narratives, learning about how characters and settings can be described and developed to create an extra chapter for ‘The 1000-year-old boy’.  We will create instructional writing linked to the Battle of Hastings.

MATHS

This half term, our learning will continue to focus on decimals. We will then learn about negative numbers. Following that, we will learn about measures, focusing on converting units of measure and measuring volume.  For mental maths, we will continue to practise a range of fluency calculations with our daily Fluent in Five questions.  Children also undertake a weekly multiplication or division tables challenge.

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SCIENCE

Our Science this half-term is ‘Living things and their habitats: Life Cycles and Reproduction, building on last term’s learning about reproduction in plants as we learn about the life cycle of humans and learn about changes in animals, including humans, from birth to old age.

Science Sum 2

HISTORY

We will learn about Britain at the time of the Viking invasions and the subsequent struggle for power between the Vikings and the Anglo-Saxons.  We will look into what made Alfred the Great so great and learn about the events leading up to the Battle of Hastings and the impact of it on Britain.

History Sum 2

RE

This term we are learning ‘What matters most to Christians and Humanists?’ We will consider ‘good’ and ‘bad’ choices and behaviour and explore some reasons why these choices might be made.  We will learn about and develop codes for living and consider the morals and values that guide our own lives.

RE Sum 2

PE

Children will have two PE sessions each week – please make sure your child wears their PE kit in school every Monday and Tuesday.  Please make sure your child has their school PE kit on, including a school jumper.  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.

This term we will also be learning the skills involved in striking and fielding games and take part in cricket activities and games, alongside athletics activities such as throwing and jumping.

COMPUTING

The children will continue to learn about online safety through our new resource, Project Evolve.  This term we will be learning about the positive and negative impacts of technology on our Health, Wellbeing and Lifestyles.

In our computing curriculum, we will be learning how to use selection in quizzes through the use of Scratch.

MUSIC

This term we will be learning to listen to, appraise, respond to and perform music as part of Charanga: Battle of the Bands!

ART

We will be exploring Viking art, in the form of knot work and animal designs.  We will create our own designs which we will then make in the form of a relief clay tile.

PSHE

This term, through our book-led PSHE, our focus is on Health and Wellbeing, focusing on Health and Wellbeing – Keeping Safe and Growing and Changing.  We will learn about risk-taking, what to do in emergency situations and some basic first aid.  We will also learn about how we can support our mental wellbeing, our personal qualities, what makes up our personal identity.

MFL

This term we will start learning about the classroom and how to say the names of regular classroom everyday objects as well as respond to questions about their classroom objects.

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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. Please encourage your child to practise their times tables regularly – five or ten minutes a day is likely to be more beneficial than an hour once a week.

Thank you for your support at home – it is very much appreciated!