Y5Curriculum Newsletter for Autumn 2

Your children have made a fantastic start in Year 5.

We will be continuing our learning with a

topic of ‘The Highwayman’. Children will learn all about

the classic poem, focusing on figurative language, and using this to

stimulate all areas of the curriculum.

Our core reading text, which we will be reading as a class this half term is ‘The Highwayman’. We shall focus on language used, imagery that the author, Alfred Noyes, portrays for the reader and the feelings and emotions of the characters in the text.

Important things to note for Year 5:

Our PE days are on a Monday and a Friday.Please make sure your child has suitable PE kit in school on these days. Long hair must also be tied back and all jewellery removed.Also make sure children have suitable outdoor PE kit and footwear for PE. Our PE topics for this half term are dance and orienteering.

Homework: Most children are expected to know all of their times tables rapidly by Year 5. To maintain this instant recall of times tables, they will be tested on a Wednesday each week.

Other homework is handed out on a Friday and should be returned on the Wednesday.

Remember to fill in your reading diary at home so you can move along the reading race track in our reading corner! Bronze award is awarded after your first fifty home reads, some children are getting really close to this!

In maths we are learning:

  • To identify multiples and find factors
  • To find equivalent fractions and reduce to the simplest form.
  • To use strategies to multiply and divide any given 3 or 4-digit number by 10, 100 and 1000.
  • To express remainders in division as fractions.
  • To use a protractor to measure and draw different angles.
  • Compare and order 2 place decimals
  • Revise metal addition and subtraction strategies

In literacy we are learning:

  • To write character descriptions.
  • To write a narrative poem, in the style of ‘The Highwayman’
  • To write narrative text, using our core text ‘The Highwayman Poem by Alfred Noyes.

In other subject areas we are learning:

Science: We will learn about the topic ofForces.

Art and DT: In art children will develop their mixed media skills, using inks to portray their own interpretation of the famous art work of Charles Keeping of The Highwayman. We shall also be looking at using a scraperboard to create an outlined image of one of the characters from The Highwayman.

  • ICT: Children will be learning about E-safety, how to chat safely and sensibly.
  • Music: Children will continue to learn how to play recorders for the second term and focus on a song to perform at our Christmas concert.
  • PE: On a Monday PE session, children will learn how to read maps and work as a team during orienteering. During a Friday session they will take part in putting together a sequence of fitness routines for our enterprise project of a fitness DVD, which we will sell at a later date.
  • RE: Children will continue to learn about the Five Pillars of Islam.

Important dates:

  • 13th November – Parents Evening (evening slots)
  • 17th November – Parents Evening (afternoon slots)
  • 23rd November – Christmas Fair (3:15pm) – Y5 have a stall, please come down and visit
  • 8th December – Christmas Lunch
  • 18th December – Key Stage 2 Christmas Concert (morning and evening, times to be confirmed)

Any questions, please don’t hesitate to come and see me.Mrs Hales