Year 5

Welcome to our Year Five page.

Welcome back and we hope you've had a lovely half term break.

We have lots to look forward to this half term!

Half Term Four. 

This half term our Big Question is, 'Why should the Amazon be important to us all?' 

In English we will be writing persuasive texts to encourage people to protect after the Amazon rainforest, We will also write a poem based on the River's Journey'.  In reading we will be developing our retrieval and inference skills using the text 'The Explorer'.

In maths, we will be working continue to develop our understanding of fractions and we will look at decimals and percentages.

For our science lessons think about how we would survive the rainforest: thinking about materials that we could use to build shelters and then looking and reversible and irreversible reactions linked to food and water.

In computing we will be making a game set in the rainforest.

Geography will focus on naming the countries in North and South America and on the course of a river.

In DT we will be printing and using clay to design and make pots.

During our PSHCE lessons we will learn about how our 'Rights and responsibilities' as we get older.  

In RE we think about the significance of the 5 pillars of Islam..

During Spanish lessons we will learn the verb 'ir' and learn different types of transport in Spanish.

Important information:

Wednesday is our PE day. Children should come to school in their PE kits. PE kits: Plain white T shirt and plain black shorts or tracksuit bottoms and trainers.

Reading at home: Children are encouraged to read at home for at least 10 minutes every night.

They should bring a book bag to school every day.

Children can choose a new book as soon as they have competed one, there is no set day for changing books.

Fluency and Phonics: Children should be reading their online books at least twice per week.  If past words are needed, please Mrs Meredith.

Home-learning:

All home-learning will be set weekly. We will provide English and Maths home-learning with additional topic activities. Children will also have weekly spellings to learn. 

Please encourage your child to use spelling shed each week.  Children have their logins.

WE also recommend that children continue to practice their times tables and division facts each week.

If you have any questions or concerns, please don’t hesitate to ask. We are happy to support all our children and families in any way we can.

Mrs. Clews, Mrs. Meredith and Miss Ashton

EXTRA 

Year 5: BBC Bitesize lessons:https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/tags/zhgppg8/year-5-and-p6-lessons

Spellings: https://spellingframe.co.uk/

Reading: Oxford Owls   www.oxfordowl.co.uk      Class login:  Year Five 23               Password: Scooby

Primary help: http://primaryhomeworkhelp.co.uk/index.html

Spanish:   https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/subjects/zxsvr82

Maths: https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button