Year 5
Welcome to Year 5!
Spring Term
21st March - Diversity Day Remote Learning
year5@allsaints-harwich.essex.sch.uk
Welcome to Year 5!
Welcome to the Spring term in Year 5. I hope that you all had a wonderful Christmas and New Year and are ready to learn all of the exciting things we have planned for this term!
P.E and Forest schools
P.E and Forest schools will now take place on a Tuesday afternoon. I know the children enjoy this time developing skills outside of the classroom. Remember to send your child into school wearing their P.E and suitable clothes and shoes for foresting can be sent in for them to change into after their P.E lesson.
English
In English this term we will be writing some myths and legends, some instructions and some persuasive writing texts all linked to our topic of the Ancient Greeks! We will be using the Year 5 Writing Checklist to identify skills in model text and begin to learn how to use these in our own writing.
Reading
In our reading lessons, we will be reading texts linked to our topic. We will look at these texts and use effective reading skills to build our abilities as high-level readers and writers.
Regular reading continues to support learning so please encourage as much reading as possible. We also have our class reading challenge for children to engage with. We will also be reading our class books at the end of the day for pleasure. Please remember to sign your child’s reading diary.
Mathematics
This term we are going to focus on the second part of our multiplication and division and fraction topics. We will then move on to look at decimals and percentages, perimeter and area and statistics. We will also be continuing on our superhero challenges from Autumn term so we encourage you to support your children with their times tables knowledge.
Science
In Science we are going to be focusing on mixtures and separation to then follow on to properties and changes. The first half term we will be looking into what materials can be mixed and experimenting to find the most effective methods to separate them. In the second half term we will be looking at different materials and properties they have and whether these properties can change or not.
RE
This term we will be looking at what the great philosophers can teach us about the meaning of life. We will be looking at life's big questions and learning how to be philosophers ourselves in the answers that we give to these questions learning about some of histories most well known philosophers along the way.
History
In History we are going to be investigating the Ancient Greeks and what they have done for us in our modern world. We will be looking at what they believed and what they created that we still use ideas from today.
Geography
This term we are going to explore why our oceans matter. This will include learning all about the water cycle and benefits of oceans to the world as well as the effects of human choices on marine environments.
Music
During our Music lessons, the learning is focused on learning to sing, play, improvise and compose with our song 'The Fresh Prince of Bel Air'. We will listen to a variety of songs during this topic and appraise our thinking on these genres of music.
Art
In art this term we are going to be looking at installations and focusing on the viewers experience in this style of art. We are going to be linking this to our topic of Ancient Greeks.
D.T
This term in DT we are going to be looking at the workings of a pop up book. We will then be creating our own pop up books linking to our Geography topic all about our oceans.
Spanish
This term we will be looking at the Olympics. In this unit they will learn about both the ancient and modern Olympic Games and form both positive and negative sentences using the correct gendered noun, verb and determiner.
Homework
Weekly spelling patterns or words are sent home on a Friday via Marvellous Me. We work on these words and spelling patterns throughout the week, but practising at home can help to embed these spellings, ensuring the children consistently use them within their writing.
Mathletics homework is set on a Friday each week and should be completed for the following Friday. All children who complete this earn an extra break on a Friday afternoon. If it has not been completed, this time is an opportunity where we can support children in completing the work.
We also ask that reading is completed five times a week for at least five minutes and recorded in their reading records. Children may wish to read to themselves, but we ask that their reading records are still signed by an adult. They do not need to only read the book they are currently reading at school, but instead could choose to read anything that they are interested in.
Key messages
If you have any questions, anything that you want to let me know or just check, feel free to catch me on the gate in the morning or at the end of the day. Alternatively, you can leave a message with the office or email me on our class email which is Year5@allsaints-harwich.essex.sch.uk.
Please let us know if you have any further questions or queries.
Kind Regards
Mrs Harris 