This year you are lucky enough to have 2 different teachers within your class.

Mr Martin - Class Teacher

Miss Stairmand - Teaching Assistant

PE will take place every Monday afternoon and Tuesday morning, when you will complete some Street Dance and Yoga.

For PE sessions please bring the following:

- Black shorts, leggings or jogging bottoms

- White t-shirt or polo shirt

- Black pumps or trainers

It is usually best to leave your child's PE kit in school for the half-term so that it is always available to use.

It is important that your child brings their reading book into school each day as the days on which they will be able to read with an adult may change from time to time. It is also crucial that you listen to your child read each evening and ensure that you sign their reading record highlighting what they have read and how they performed.

Within this class reading records will be checked and books changed on a Friday.

Homework will be set on a Tuesday through our online learning platform, SeeSaw. A link for which is placed below:

https://app.seesaw.me/#/login

All homework should be completed by the following Monday and will be checked by your teacher on this day. Please make sure that if you are having difficulties with the homework, that you contact your class teacher with plenty of time so that they can assist your child in its completion. In addition, the school also run a homework club which can really help support those children that struggle completing their tasks independently.

Year 5 - Spring 2

Is it right to fight?

As mathematicians we will:

• Decimals up to 2 decimal places.
• Equivalent fractions and decimals (tenths and hundredths).
• Thousandths as fractions.
• Thousandths as fractions.
• Thousandths as decimals.
• Thousandths on a place value chart.
• Order and compare decimals (same number of decimal places).

As scientists we will:

• Research using a range of secondary resources.  
• Describe mixtures.
• Explain the process of sieving.
• Draw and annotate a diagram to explain a concept.
• Explain the process of filtering.
• Identify testable questions and how to answer them.
• Describe solutions and how they can be identified.
• Describe solutions and how they can be identified.
• Identify which factors affect the time taken to dissolve.
• Plan a fair test with consideration of variables and measurements.

As writers we will:

• Use a variety of verb forms used correctly and consistently.
• Use commas to clarify meaning or avoid ambiguity in writing.
• Link ideas across paragraphs using adverbials of time, place and number.
• Use brackets, dashes or commas to indicate parenthesis.
• Engage the reader through use of description, feelings and opinions.
• Write in consistent tense using a range of verb forms.
• Include the 5Ws – who, what, where, when, why and how – and conclude with a clear summary.
• Use real life facts, including dates and place names • Use formal language appropriately.

As children ‘Living in the Wider World’, in PSHE, we will:

• Discuss why rules and laws are made and enforced and why there are different rules needed in different situations.
• Know the range of jobs carried out by people you know and explore how much people earn in different jobs.
• Know that there are rights and responsibilities when playing a game online or in a social network community.
• Learn that you have different kinds of responsibilities, rights and duties at home, at school, in the community and towards the environment.
• Understand that you will need money to help you achieve some of your dreams
• Develop an initial understanding of the concepts of ‘interest’, ‘loan’, ‘debt’, and ‘tax’.

As readers we will:

Practise our VIPERS skills:

Vocabulary

Inference

Prediction

Explanation

Retrieval

Summarise

This half term we are reading, Goodnight Mister Tom by Michelle Magorian.

As computing experts, we will:

• Explore the basics of artificial intelligence (AI).
• Recognise how AI processes and responds to text prompts.
• Recognise how AI can be used to explore and generate images.
• Apply AI-generated HTML code to the website Trinket.                                                                                     

As geographers we will:

• Explain the difference between human and physical features and name examples.
• Name and identify key battlefields of WW2
• Identify the key physical and human features of key World War Two battlefields
• Describe what it would be like for military and civilians living and fighting in these regions. 
• Say whether the landscapes and climate of all battlegrounds the same or different
• Use digimaps to identify how the areas have changed/stayed the same and consider whether human or physical features are more likely to change. 
• Explain why an ordnance survey map would be of greater use than an atlas or street map
• Identify the types of industry where a bombing raid could cause maximum damage and how the land was used.  

As historians we will:

• Understand the causes of WWII.
• Discover the impact of the Blitz on Manchester and our local area.
• Compare childhood now to childhood in the 1940s.
• Evaluate the importance of secret agents and codebreakers.
• Handle evidence for example, The Diary of Anne Frank, and infer what life was like for Jewish people under the Nazi regime.
• Understand the significant events that brought an end to WWII.

As design technologists we will:

• Look at pies and their packaging and learn typical ingredients.
• Discover history of pies.
• Taste pie ingredients and comment on their flavour and texture.
• Prepare ingredients for a pie.
• Select appropriate weighing and cooking tools.
• Make a Woolton Pie.

As learners about religion we will:

• Find out about the creation story in Genesis 1.
• Consider what might many Christians see as important in Genesis 1.
• Discuss what relationships scientists have with religious world views.
• Question how and why some Christians see both science and religion as important.
• Show understanding of why many Christians find science and faith go together.
• Identify what type of text some Christians say Genesis 1 is, and its purpose.
•  Consider awareness of different interpretation.