Year 5
Class Teacher: Miss Elliott
Supportive Teaching Team: Ms Tarran
Term four
Our term value: Forgiveness
Learning enquiry: Why is the world unequal?
English: we will be doing daily reading and writing lessons based upon Moses: when Harriet Tubman led her people to freedom. These lessons will explore literary techniques, grammar, comprehension skills and provide opportunities to create fiction and non-fiction pieces of work. The class will be reading The Terrible Thing That Happened To Barnaby Brocket as our class text.
We are still using Accelerated Reader and the children can complete quizzes on their books in class.
Maths: we have daily maths lessons after break which begin with a starter activity practising our oracy skills and mathematical understanding. We use a mastery approach within our mathematical journey. This term we are covering the following areas:
- Calculating with decimal fractions
- Factors, multiples and primes
We will be doing daily fluency in maths to provide a chance to regularly practice our arithmetic skills.
We complete daily times table practice, focusing on different times table facts. Children are expected to practice their times tables using Times Table Rock Stars, a daily leader board is displayed in class.
Enquiry
Why is our world unequal?
We are learning about the space; the name of planets, movement through space and how this affects day and night on Earth. We will explore forces that act upon us through hands-on activities. We will do this by answering some mini-enquiries.
- Where are we?
- Why is the moon important?
- Why did we go to the moon?
- How do others achieve their ambitions?
- What are your dreams?
Interview challenge
This term Year 5 will be taking part in an interview challenge. We will learn about our future job, prepare a CV and then have a job interview for our future job. James Wilmott, Director of Careers at TPLT will be coming in to conduct the interviews.
Home learning
For home learning, children should be doing the following every week:
- Reading as often as possible - ideally 5 times a week
- Practising times tables on TT rockstars (go into jamming and select the times table to practise)
- Spelling shed - complete the assignment (specific words) set each week
TT Rockstars: https://ttrockstars.com/
Spelling Shed: https://www.spellingshed.com/en-gb/
Term three
Our term value: Trust
Learning enquiry: Why is the world unequal?
English: we will be doing daily reading and writing lessons based upon Freedom on the Menu. These lessons will explore literary techniques, grammar, comprehension skills and provide opportunities to create fiction and non-fiction pieces of work. The class will be reading The Terrible Thing That Happened To Barnaby Brocket as our class text.
We are still using Accelerated Reader and the children can complete quizzes on their books in class.
Maths: we have daily maths lessons after break which begin with a starter activity practising our oracy skills and mathematical understanding. We use a mastery approach within our mathematical journey. This term we are covering the following areas:
- Short multiplication and division
- Area and scaling
We will be doing daily fluency in maths to provide a chance to regularly practice our arithmetic skills.
We complete daily times table practice, focusing on different times table facts. Children are expected to practice their times tables using Times Table Rock Stars, a daily leader board is displayed in class.
Enquiry
Why is our world unequal?
We are learning about the space; the name of planets, movement through space and how this affects day and night on Earth. We will explore forces that act upon us through hands-on activities. We will do this by answering some mini-enquiries.
- Where are we?
- Why is the moon important?
- Why did we go to the moon?
- How do others achieve their ambitions?
- What are your dreams?
Home learning
For home learning, children should be doing the following every week:
- Reading as often as possible - ideally 5 times a week
- Practising times tables on TT rockstars (go into jamming and select the times table to practise)
- Spelling shed - complete the assignment (specific words) set each week by Mrs Utteridge
TT Rockstars: https://ttrockstars.com/
Spelling Shed: https://www.spellingshed.com/en-gb/
Term two
Our term value: respect
Learning enquiry: why do people invade and settle?
Writing: Daily whole class writing lessons take place throughout the week. The children will continue focusing on writing to entertain, looking at the story of Paper Son. We will then move on to learning to inform, writing a formal biography.
Maths: we have daily maths lessons after break which begin with a starter activity practising our oracy skills and mathematical understanding. We use a mastery approach within our mathematical journey. This term we are covering the following areas:
- Negative numbers
- Short multiplication and division
We will be doing daily fluency in maths to provide a chance to regularly practice our arithmetic skills. We will also start to use Mastery for Number.
We complete daily times table practice, focusing on different times table facts. Children are expected to practice their times tables using Times Table Rock Stars, a daily leader board is displayed in class.
Enquiry
Why do people invade and settle?
Our learning enquiry has a history and geography thread running throughout. The children will revisit their previous learning of place and what has come before us. The class will have opportunities to practice existing skills and learn new geography field work skills throughout the year.
We are learning about why civilisations have invaded and settled in different countries. We will do this by answering some mini-enquiries.
- Who stood before us?
- What is invasion?
- Why do people invade?
- What did the Vikings travel for?
- What did the Vikings trade?
- How did the invasions change Britain?
- Is it right to invade?
During the Science lessons, the class will explore materials and states. We will have practical hands-on lessons to build our curiosities and understanding.
PSHE: This term Year 5 will be celebrating differences. The PSHE lessons are designed to involve discussion and collaborative learning.
Art and DT: Year 5 will be looking at structures, designing, building and evaluating our own bridges.
Home learning
For home learning, children should be doing the following every week:
- Reading as often as possible - ideally 5 times a week
- Practising times tables on TT rockstars (go into jamming and select the times table to practise)
- Spelling shed - complete the assignment (specific words) set each week
TT Rockstars: https://ttrockstars.com/
Spelling Shed: https://www.spellingshed.com/en-gb/
Term one
Our term value: thankfulness
Learning enquiry: why do people invade and settle?
Writing: Daily whole class writing lessons take place throughout the week. The children will start Year 5 by exploring the book Arthur and The Golden Rope. They will be writing to entertain, innovating their own version of the story.
Maths: we have daily maths lessons after break, which begin with a starter activity practising our oracy skills and mathematical understanding. We use a mastery approach within our mathematical journey. This term we are covering the following areas:
- Decimal fractions
- Money
We will be doing daily fluency in maths, using Mastery of Number and regular practice of our arithmetic skills.
We complete daily times table practice, focusing on different times table facts. Children are expected to practice their times tables using Times Table Rock Stars, a daily leader board is displayed in class.
Enquiry
Why do people invade and settle?
Our learning enquiry has a history and geography thread running throughout. The children will revisit their previous learning of place and what has come before us. The class will have opportunities to practice existing skills and learn new geography field work skills throughout the year.
We are learning about why civilisations have invaded and settled in different countries. We will do this by answering some mini-enquiries.
- Who stood before us?
- What is invasion?
- Why do people invade?
- What did the Vikings travel for?
- What did the Vikings trade?
- How did the invasions change Britain?
- Is it right to invade?
During the Science lessons, the class will explore materials and states. We will have practical hands-on lessons to build our curiosities and understanding.
PSHE: This term Year 5 will be being me in our world. The PSHE lessons are designed to involve discussion and collaborative learning.
Art and DT: Year 5 will be exploring drawing from perspective and the techniques involved.
Home learning
For home learning, children should be doing the following every week:
- Reading as often as possible - ideally 5 times a week
- Practising times tables on TT rockstars (go into jamming and select the times table to practise)
- Spelling shed - complete the assignment (specific words) set each week
TT Rockstars: https://ttrockstars.com/
Spelling Shed: https://www.spellingshed.com/en-gb/
