Welcome to Year 5. Our class teacher is Sally Skinner who is assisted by Ashleigh Conway.
Useful documents for Year 5
Welcome to Year 5. Our class teacher is Sally Skinner who is assisted by Ashleigh Crowley.
Literacy
Our class text for literacy will be How to Train Your Dragon by Cressida Cowell. This book is about a boy, Hiccup Horrendous Haddock the Third, the Hope and Heir to the Tribe of the Hairy Holligans and the ancient Viking tradition of stealing and training a dragon to be able to join the Hairy Holligan Tribe. We will be looking at lot of different styles of writing including: our own stories about what happens next, a recount of what happens when Fishlegs sneezes in the dragon nursery and non-chronological reports about Vikings.
Children will bring home their reading books and planners in their book bag every night. These should be returned to school- each day- as we use them in class throughout the week.
Maths
In school, we will be following the White Rose resources for Maths. This term we will be focusing on shape, position and direction, decimals, converting units and volume. Quick recall of times tables is an important skill and children have access to Times Tables Rockstars to practise at home. The leader board is posted on Tapestry each week and children can earn money for their class bank if they get in the top 5 leaderboard.
Science
Our science topic will be Forces where we will look at air resistance, water resistance and friction. In the second half term, we will look at Living Things and their Habitats, examining lifecycles and habitats of unfamiliar animals.
History
In history, this term, we will be looking at Vikings. We will find out where they came from, who they were, what life was like as a Viking and were they really as Vicious as Terry Deary says in Horrible Histories?
Geography
In Geography, we will be looking at where our food comes from. We will begin by identifying foods that are farmed, grown or made in a factory. We will then begin to look at countries of origin and what foods the UK produces itself.
French
In French, lessons we will be learning different place names in French and transport methods. We have a French lesson once a week and spend an extra five minutes each day revising key concepts.
Every child- in Year 5- has a Duolingo account so they can practise at home either on the Duolingo app or on the Duolingo for school’s website. Let me know, via Tapestry, if your child has forgotten their login details and I can send them again.
DT
The children will be looking at bridges: the different types of bridges, how these bridges are supported and finish by designing and building their own bridge.
Art
In art this term, we are using Modroc to build our own sculptures. We are building on skills developed in Year 3 and will be creating a sculpture based on our English text, How to Train Your Dragon.
PSHE
Our topics in PSHE will be Being My Best, which will include ambition for careers as well as making the most of our local community. We will also look at Growing and Changing including how feelings might change as you get older and how to take care of yourself as you hit puberty.
P.E.
P.E. is twice a week in Year 5 which will be every Thursday and Friday. Children will need a P.E. kit, every Thursday and Friday, containing a t-shirt in their team colours, black shorts and shoes suitable for running and moving around. We will be trying to get outside for being as much as we can if it isn’t too cold. As the weather can be unpredictable in Consett, children may wish to add old, warm clothes such as tracksuit bottoms and a sweatshirt to their P.E. kit. P.E. shoes will need to be suitable for outdoor use too.
Computing
In computing, we will be using Google Drawings for creating vector drawings. We will be using shapes and layers to create our own logo pictures. In the second half term, we will be using Scratch to write our own programme for a quiz.
R.E.
Our R.E. topic this term will look at How Jewish Beliefs Are Expressed at Home.
Music
This term, our music topic is composing, and we will be doing this around Dancing in the Street. We will also be looking at a topic called Reflect, Re-wind and Replay where we will look at music throughout history.
Please do not hesitate to contact us, if there is anything we can do to help and support your Year 5 child.
How you can help your child:
We believe that any work you do at home with your child should be simple and purposeful. We would ask you to support you child in the following:
Reading- Reading regularly at home with your child and recording this in their reading record. You can help your child to understand what they have read by asking how and why questions about certain passages of text.
Number skills- Times tables are vital for upper key stage 2 so regularly practicing these via Times Table Rock Stars is important to consolidate skills. Any problems logging on, let us know and we can provide your child’s details.
Spellings- Spellings are sent home weekly via Tapestry on a Monday. These should be practised at home ready for a test on a Friday.
