Welcome to Year 5

Welcome to Year 5!

This year, we will share all the important information that you require at home on a Year 5 page rather than individual class pages. You will find our class emails below if you need to discuss anything or find us on the front playground at the end of the day. 

To further develop their World country knowledge, Year 5 classes have started to use the daily challenge website 'GLOBLE'. Here, you guess the 'country of the day', using the closest guessed country to try another. This can be played at home too and will really help learn the spellings of countries around the world. We are using a World map from the internet to help us with spellings/locating new countries when attempting these. 

Click on the globe above to send you to the website! Have fun! :) 

Staffing: 

6CR - Mrs Rose (Mon-Wed), Mrs Carthey (Wed-Fri).  

6S - Mrs Sheppard 

We are extremely fortunate to have Mrs Sweet supporting across the two classes each morning. She will be concentrating on specific areas of the curriculum with small groups and individuals during the afternoons. 

This term, we will be learning about:

Maths

Each day during the week, we will concentrate on a different aspect of maths. Over this term, we will cover:

Monday - Number - negative numbers, Roman numerals, deciamls, percentages and their equivalent fractions. 

Tuesday - Fractions - Adding and subtracting fractions and mixed numbers, multiplying fractions by an integer and fractions of amounts.

Wednesday - BIG MATHS - Learn Its (times tables), CLICs and SAFE activities.

Thursday - Calculation - prime numbers, squared and cubed numbers and multiplying and dividing by 10, 100 and 1000. 

Friday - Measurement - measuring angles with a protractor, drawing angles, calculating angles on a straight line and around a point, triangles, quadrilaterals and regular and irregular polygons. 

Writing  

This term, we will begin with reading 

Kensuke's Kingdom by Michael Morpurgo.

We will be completing different writing 

tasks based on this story, which is linked 

to our Born Free topic.

Reading

Our reading VIPERS novel this term is TOM'S MIDNIGHT GARDEN  by Phillipa Pearce. Each week, we will focus on a different reading comprehension skill. We use VIPERS to remember the comprehension skills. 

Science

Our topic this half term is SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST.

Our learning will look at how living things pass on genetic material and how traits are inherited from generation to generation. We will be looking at differences in genes and how family members share DNA.  We will look at how species more suited to an environment will produce more offspring and they will be more likely to pass on their specific characteristics to the next generation.

Creative Curriculum

Our creative curriculum this term is 'BORN FREE' which sees us look into the History of slavery and historical events linked with freedom. We begin by looking at the world to identify continents and countries as we will be looking at areas of Asia and Africa in detail. We will be thinking about human and animal rights and how things have changed over time. This will enable us to discuss and debate how we can help the future of mankind and the environment.

ACCELERATED READER AT HOME

Families have been sent home with a login for the Accelerated Reader - Home Connect site. This provides information on your child's progress in Accelerated Reader quizzes that they take at home. 

Use the link below and log in using your child's log in details. 

https://ukhosted17.renlearn.co.uk/2249839/HomeConnect/ 

Here are the Spring Term 1 spelling lists from Mr Bagley.

Use the slides below to help you understand each word or do your own research so that you learn much more than just the spellings. Thank you.

We have also added a link to the National curriculum spellings.

Extra Year Group Information

Emailing Staff

If you have any questions or need to send us any of your home learning as files or photos, please use the email addresses below:

5S - Y5S@pelsallvillage.co.uk

5CR - Y5CR@pelsallvillage.co.uk