Welcome to Year 5
Our Learning
Welcome to Year 5. We begin the new school year with our topic ‘Anglo-Saxon Artefacts’. This gives us the opportunity to step back in time to explore all manner of aspects of life during the period 410AD through to 1066.
In science, we will be focussing on the properties and changes of materials as we encourage the children to develop an inquisitive approach with practical hands-on investigations.
In Maths we will be pushing on with our focus on Maths Passports to ensure that the children continue to develop their foundation maths knowledge. Helping your child to practise their particular targets at home will really help their maths work in school.
Between now and Christmas we will be covering all of the key maths areas: - division, multiplication, addition and subtraction. We will also be doing some statistics and a unit on measuring perimeter and area. Ensuring we relate our maths to real life is an ongoing focus as we encourage the children to understand that maths is out there in everyday life.
In English, we will be exploring the key aspects of a range of writing genres. We will begin the year recapping the key points of clear sentence construction using a variety of interesting connectives. Using a selection of different sentence types is one of our main focuses as we develop the children’s ability to use a combination of simple, compound and complex sentences in their writing. We will be making links with our topic and will be reading Anglo-Saxon Boy by Tony Bradman as an exciting stimulus for our written work.
Great presentation and accurate spelling will be coming through as we regularly emphasise taking a pride in your work and cover a number of key spelling rules. Not forgetting the Year5/6 100 key word list we will covering throughout this year. Work at school with additional work at home will greatly help.
In R.E we will be looking at why some places and journeys are special to different people along with thinking about our class value of forgiveness. Year 5 will also continue to develop their French language skills each week as they continue to build on the vocabulary developed so far.
With the usual variety of other school events added to the mix, we are all looking forward to a lively and productive term.
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Our Homework
Homework Leaflet Autumn 1st half 2021
