Dear
Parents/ Carers of Year 5 Pupils,
Welcome
back! We hope you are well rested and ready for an action-packed term! We have
already started this busy term with a fantastic week of ‘Bikeability Training’.
Summer
Term Curriculum
Here
is an outline of some of the areas of learning that we will be covering in
class this term.
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Maths
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Fractions,
decimals and percentages
Symmetry,
reflections and translations
Statistics,
Angles, Perimeter, Volume
Problem
solving
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English
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Greek
Myths
Persuasive
Texts
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Science
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Living
things and their habitats
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R.E.
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Who
is Jesus? What do people believe about him?
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Computing
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Analyse
and evaluate data
Programming
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P.E.
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Athletics
Outdoor
and adventurous activities
Invasion
game skills
Swimming
(after half term)
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Topic
(History,
geog, art, D.T.)
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Ancient
Greece
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How you can help at home
Homework – Please note change of day
Year
5 children will continue to receive one English and one Maths homework weekly.
However, as a change from last term,
we will ask for Maths homework to be handed in on Tuesdays and English homework
to be handed in on Wednesdays. We will set some MyMaths homework tasks as part
of the Maths bubble homework. If you do not have access to the internet at home
children are welcome to use laptops at school to complete these tasks during
Friday lunchtimes.
If
your child has any trouble with homework, all they need do is come and ask us
(where possible before the due date). It
is also appreciated if you could help encourage children to take responsibility
for their own homework.
In
addition, the children will continue to learn a spelling rule each week. They
will receive a list of spellings that follow this rule every Monday and will
need to learn these for a weekly spelling test on a Friday.
Please
find attached to this letter the half termly spellings the children need to
learn at home (and what they scored when tested on these spellings this week).
These will not be taught in lessons and will be tested at the end of the half
term. Thank you for your support with this – it makes a big difference.
Reading
Please
continue to read regularly with your child. It is so important as children
become more fluent with their reading that they understand what they have read.
Please ask them questions about the characters and plot to check their
understanding and encourage them to express their own opinions about a
story/book. Please also encourage them to read aloud with appropriate
intonation and expression, paying careful attention to punctuation marks used
by the author.
Planners
Please could you check your child’s planner at the
end of each week and sign the bottom of the page. Your child should take
responsibility for asking you to check and sign it. The children will record
their weekly spelling and times tables tests scores in their planners. We will
collect the homework planners each Monday.
P.E
The
children will have a P.E. session on Tuesday and Friday afternoons. Sometimes
our timetable has to change so P.E. kit should be in school each day please. It
would be useful for the children to have both outdoor trainers and plimsolls
(or clean trainers) as part of their kit so that we can use both the hall and
outdoors.
Planners, reading
books and homework books.
Please
have all of these in school each day. Thank you.
Trip
We
are getting excited about our trip to Hanbury Hall on June 9th. We will be
sending a letter with more information nearer the time.
Enterprise Project
We
are hoping to run an enterprise project later this term. More details to
follow.
Please
don’t hesitate to come and see us if you have any questions.
Yours
sincerely,
Mrs
Michelle Parkin and Mrs Marika Hortop
