Dear
Parents/ Carers of Year 5 Pupils,
Welcome
back and happy new year! We hope you all had a wonderful Christmas and are
ready for another busy term. Thank you very much for your kind messages, cards
and gifts.
Spring
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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Division
(whole numbers)
Different
types of numbers
Decimal
numbers (reading, writing, ordering, rounding) Calculations involving decimal
numbers (+ - x ÷)
Percentages
and fractions
Word
problems
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English
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Fables
Play
scripts
Performance
Poetry
Non-chronological
reports
Persuasive
texts
Reading-
our class text is ‘Journey to the River Sea’
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Science
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Properties
of Materials and Changes of Materials
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R.E.
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What
is God like? How does believing in God influence people’s lives?
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Computing
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Programming
and debugging
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P.E.
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Dance
and Gymnastics (Tuesdays)
Invasion
game skills (Thursdays)
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Topic
(History,
Geog, Art, D.T.)
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Saving
the World – work will include learning about climate zones, the water cycle,
land use, trade links and improving our geographical skills
D.T.
will include designing a chocolate pudding
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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 English homework to be handed in on Tuesdays and Maths 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 last 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
The
children are using their planners very well to record their daily reading and
their homework tasks. Children will record in their planners their spelling
test score and their times tables club score every Friday. 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. We will collect the homework planners each Friday.
P.E
The
children will continue to have their Thursday P.E. session with Jon and will
also have an indoor P.E. session on Tuesday afternoons. Sometimes our timetable
has to change so P.E kit should be in school each day please. As the weather is
unpredictable 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. Joggers and jumpers may also be needed.
Planners, reading
books.
Please
have all of these in school each day. Thank you.
Please
don’t hesitate to come and see us if you have any questions.
Yours
sincerely,
Mrs
Michelle Parkin and Mrs Marika Hortop
