Year 5

Mrs Panther’s Class Page

Welcome back to the first half of Summer Term 2016.

We hope you all had a wonderful Easter.

RE:

Our Gospel Value theme is: Truthfulness

We will complete our lessons from our ‘Bible Explorer’ visitor on the Old Testament.

Unit: Exploring the lives of significant women in the Old Testament.

What can I learn from this story?

Why is this a significant moment? Why is this woman important?

In which values and beliefs are the actions of the women rooted?

Did she do the right thing?

Topic:

‘Spaced Out’

This term promises to be out of this world! In our creative curriculum we are ‘Spaced Out’ and investigating all about our solar system and Earth’s place in it.

Our Key Questions will be:

  • What do we know about the Earth, Sun and Moon?
  • How do the Earth, Sun and Moon fit within our solar system?
  • How do we get day and night?
  • What do we know about the shape and movement of the Earth?
  • Why does the moon appear to change shape?
  • How do shadows, created by the sun, change during a day?

How were shadows used in the past to help people tell the time?

Literacy:

Narrative Poetry ‘The Highway Man’

Weekly spelling and word work

(See weekly homework for objectives)

Grammar and punctuation

Class reader: ‘War Horse’

By Michael Morpurgo

Maths:

Place Value

Fractions

Measures and statistics

Geometry

Addition and Subtraction

Multiplication and Division

Science:

We will be continuing with our ‘Field Journals’ to investigate changes in habitats, wild life and plants in our environment.

Music

Saxophones with our Wider Opportunities Music Teacher Mrs Hughes

PE:

Swimming and Handball

Philosophy for Children

Discussion times in class, to develop independent thinking skills and the chance to explore ‘What if?’ questions relating to our Christian values.

Computing:

Research and ICT presentations about our topics.

Learning how to be web developers and creating a website about cyber safety.

Year 5: Expectations and learning ethos.

In Year 5 expectations will be that your child will be a self motivated and an enthusiastic learner. To encourage this, your child has many opportunities to be rewarded through:

House Points, Star of the Week, Class rewards such as Reading Points, Golden Tickets, Listening Stars and Golden Time

I also hope you will support us in reinforcing our class rules, which we wrote together and agreed as a class because this will make our class a happy and productive place to be.

Year 5 Our Class Rules

1) We will try to be happy and thankful.

2) We will walk calmly around the school and classroom and stay safe.

3) We will be helpful and think of others before ourselves.

4) We will show respect at all times to other people and their property.

5) We will let others join in and be sharing and caring.

We have a new Golden Time system in class to help us keep our classroom rules. At the start of the week each child will have 30 minutes Golden Time. Anyone who breaks our classroom rules will unfortunately lose Golden Time minutes and the time lost will increase if the negative behavior continues. All the children respecting the classroom rules will be rewarded with their Golden Time each week on a Friday, when we will be choosing from a variety of activities such as: playing board games;playing cards;outdoor games; ICT time; craft activities etc.

Year 5: Things to remember to bring to school

Reading book and reading record everyday.

PE kit in school everyday please.

Swimmimg Kit on Tuesdays.

Saxophones on Tuesdays

A coat.

Wellies

A snack for break time or toast money.

A water bottle

Year 5:

Homework

Daily: - Independent reading and/or reading to an adult at home.

- Learning times tables and division facts and improving speed of recall.

- Learning spellings.

Thursday:

Maths homework is sent home to be in for the following Thursday.

Spellings and grammar and punctuation work sent home and tested following Thursday.

Tables sent home and test following Monday or Wednesday.

Half Termly: Projects will be sent home to be completed by the set date.

All homework will be on the school website for you to access.

Note about ‘Projects’:

During a half term your child will receive some different open ended ‘Project’ tasks to be completed by a certain date. The ‘Projects’ will be based on topics we are doing in class and will have instructions about what I want your child to do and how I want them to present it.

I would welcome you to help your child and work together on the projects, where necessary and the children will then share their ‘Projects’ with the rest of the class once they are completed.

And finally …

I consider the education of your child a partnership between myself and you. Please contact me, if you have any worries or concerns.