Year 5
Welcome to Year 5
The Year 5 team are:
Mrs Kemp
Mr Claridge
Mrs Giffen
Mrs Berry
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Important Information |
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Timings |
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Belongings |
Please send children in with the following:
Please don’t send children to school with the following:
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PE Kit |
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English
During the first half of the Spring term we will be looking at a book called 'Counting on Katherine' by Helaine Becker, which is about the incredible life of Katherine Johnson, a mathematical genius who are after overcoming many challenges in life, worked for NASA. We will start by writing a balanced argument about challenges that affected Katherine's life at the time, such as segregation of race, age and inequalities.
We will then move onto to the book 'Women in Science' by Rachel Ignotofsky, a book about 50 fearless pioneers who changed the world, including Katherine Johnson. We will look at the features of a biography and eventually write a biography on katherine Johnson.
To finish the English topic, the children will then write an autobiography of their own. They may need your help with some of the facts!
Our class reader will be Boy by Roald Dahl.
Spellings
Spelling lessons take place on a Monday and a new assignment will be set during the lesson. The children have a week to complete this task and have been given their spelling shed logins. We are currently assessing the children to make sure they are set the correct spellings and homework will begin shortly.
Reading
We encourage reading to take place at least 5 times a week. This can include a variety of reading material such as comics, magazines and information books and don't forget this can include you reading to them, too. Reading diaries need to be handed in every Monday. By year 5, the children should be able to record their reading themselves but we would appreciate if you could sign it.
Handwriting
We use a programme called Letter join which develops a cursive handwriting style.
Maths
Topic
The topic for the first half term is Stargazing and we will 'launch' our topic with a Space day on Monday 11th January. The children will need to wear their PE kit as they will be astronauts in training! During the topic, we will be creating our own class solar system, moon craters with flour and cocoa and making the moon phases with oreo biscuits! We will also be carrying out Science investigations based on Newton's Law of Gravity. Please during this topic, point out the moon phases and stars if you happen to be on an evening walk.
PSHCE/RE
In Re this term,we are looking at the religion Sikhism and linking it to our question in Topic, 'Can the choices we make, imapct the world around us?
As part of PSHCE we will be looking at our School linking topic and concentrating on games that will improve our social skills.
Art
We will be linking Art to our topic Stargazers this term. We will be creating our own space pictures based on the art of Peter Thorpe
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Music