Welcome to Year 5. Our class teacher is Sally Skinner who is assisted by Jo Clamp, Lindsay Temple, Rachel Walker and Olivia Williams.
Useful documents for Year 5
Welcome to Year 5! This term our topic is Fantastic Journeys.
Literacy
Our class text for literacy will be Kensuke’s Kingdom by Michael Morpurgo. This book is about a boy, who during a sailing trip around the world with his mum and dad, falls overboard and is stranded on a desert island. We will be looking at writing our own stories about meeting strangers, newspaper reports about missing people as well as a persuasion for Kensuke trying to persuade him to come home.
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 half term we will be focusing on multiplication and division as well as revisiting fractions. 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 Properties and Changes of Materials where we will look at sorting materials and investigating the properties of different materials. In the second half term, we will look at the lifecycle of a human in Animals Including Humans.
History
In history, this half term, we will be looking at the Mayans and their place in history.
French
In French, lessons we will be learning about the weather and different seasons. 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 food.
PSHE
Our topics in PSHE will be Keeping Safe, which will include online life as well as dangers that we might come across in everyday experiences. We will also look at Rights Respecting and differences between people. This will also include a small look at money management.
P.E.
P.E. is twice a week in Year 5 which will be every Wednesday and Thursday. Every Wednesday, we will swim so children will need a suitable P.E. kit including a swimming costume or trunks, towel, goggles and warm coat. Children will need a P.E. kit, every Thursday, 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 learning about video editing and databases.
R.E.
Our R.E. topic this term will look at What do Christian’s believe about God?
Music
This term, our music topic is composing and we will be doing this around Adele’s Make You Feel My Love. We will also look at improvisation and we will do this around the theme tune to The Fresh Prince of Bel Air.
Please do not hesitate to contact us, if there is anything we can do to help and support your Year 5 child.