Welcome to 5S

Our teacher is Mrs Sow.
Our teaching assistants in year 5 are Mrs Kaur and Mrs Shahzad.

Children need to be reading 5 times per week and their home reading books need to be in school every day.

PE will be on Mondays and Thursdays.

Spellings will be given out on Fridays please practise these at home. Children have their Doodle Maths logins and need to be going on their little and often.

Creative Curriculum – Stargazers

Can you help your child learn to read and understand the meaning to these topic related words for ‘Stargazers’.

What Are We Learning?

In English, we will read Ultimate Explorers, asking and answering questions and making predictions. We will features of non-fiction texts and will be writing our own non-chronological reports. We will revise our knowledge of grammar, punctuation and spelling as well as learning about expanded noun phrases, relative clauses and modal verbs. The writing tasks include persuasive adverts and writing our own e-book page.

In Maths, we will be studying everything to do with fractions. We will also be revising everything we have learnt in Year 5 so far.

We will be incorporating Science into our Creative Curriculum topic this half term and learning all about Earth and Space. We will look at the planets and the length of time it takes to orbit the sun. We will be looking at day and night and the job of the Moon.

In PSHE we are learning about ‘My dreams and goals’. We will look at job aspirations and what careers we can have in the future.

In Latin, we are introducing the language and where the English language comes from.

We will be following Charanga online this half term, looking at Easy on Me by Adele.

In Computing, we will use Purple Mash to ensure that we are keeping ourselves safe online. We will be learning about what online safety is and how we should protect ourselves as well as others.