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 Tuesday and Thursday, when you will complete Cricket and Netball.

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 - Autumn 2

Adventures in Space

As mathematicians we will:

- Learn how to divide a 4 digit by a 1-digit number

- Understand and find factors, multiples and primes

- Divide by 10, 100 and 1,000

- Multiply by 10, 100 and 1,000

- Solve problems with multiplications

- Switch between mixed number and improper fractions

- Compare and order fractions

- Add and subtract fractions

- Multiply fractions by whole numbers and by other fractions

 

As scientists we will:

- Describe the geocentric and heliocentric model

- Name the celestial bodies in our solar system

- Learn the force that keeps planets in their orbits

- Consider the shapes of celestial bodies

- Describe the orbits of celestial bodies in the solar system

- Explain how the Earth rotates on its axis

- Learn about the tilt of the Earth and describe the orbit of the Earth around the Sun

 

As writers we will:

- Use expanded noun phrases to convey complicated information concisely

- Describe settings, characters and atmosphere

- Integrate dialogue to convey character and advance the action

- Use of inverted commas and other punctuation to punctuate direct speech

- Develop and keep characters consistent through description

- Develop settings through description and link this with the characters or plot

- Engage reader through selecting effective grammar and vocabulary

- Vary story opening: start with dialogue, action or description

- Use paragraphs to vary pace and emphasis

- Use dialogue to move action forward

 

As musicians we will:

- Identify how different styles of music contribute to the feel of a film.

- Participate in discussions, sharing their views and justifying their answers.

- Use the terms ‘major’ and ‘minor’.

- Identify different instruments to describe how music evokes different emotions.

- Identify pitch, tempo and dynamics, and use these to explain and justify their answers.

- Give reasonable and thought-out suggestions for what different graphic scores represent.

- Use their body, voice and instruments to create sounds to represent a given theme.

- Create a musical score to represent a composition.

- Interpret their graphic score and performing their composition appropriately with their group.

- Create sounds that relate to the scene of a film.

 

As readers we will:

 

Practise our VIPERS skills:

Vocabulary

Inference

Prediction

Explanation

Retrieval

Summarise

This half term we are reading, The Kid who comes from Space by Ross Welford.

 

As design technicians, we will:

- Explore the mechanisms that are used for a vehicle

- Understand the terminology: lever, pulley and gear

- Learn about the planet Mars as well as how the Mars Rover vehicle has been used for data collections and analysis

- Design my own vehicle using my knowledge of levers, pulleys and gears

- Understand the electrical components that are required to make a functioning circuit

- Test and evaluate my vehicle