Cale Green Primary School
Year 5 Theme 1 Overview
Space Invaders!
Our new theme for the next nine weeks is called “Space Invaders.” The focus of this theme is the exciting historical period when the Anglo Saxons first came to Britain. We will be studying their settlements and their daily lives. We will also be looking at the more fearsome invaders ‘The Vikings’!
English Link up
We will read lots of stories about these times including Beowulf, Nordic legends and King Arthur. This will lead into lots of creative writing opportunities which will include describing characters and settings, diary writing and writing our own versions of these stories. We will also look at non-fiction writing, including writing instructions.
Maths Link up
The children will start the theme by learning about place value. We will be learning how to read and write numbers up to 1,000,000 and ordering and comparing them. We will then focus on both mental and written addition and subtraction. We will also focus on taking maths outside the classroom and looking at some real life maths problems in our own school grounds.
Cross Curricular Links
In Geography we will map the routes taken by the settlers and invaders, locating these areas on maps. In History, we will investigate the daily lives of these different groups.
As always, we will enhance our learning through the use of technology, wherever possible.
Special Class Events
13th September - visit to Weaver Hall for an Anglo-Saxon and Viking workshop
Physical Education
P.E. will be onTuesday andThursday. Please ensure that your child has a suitable P.E. kit (white t-shirt, black shorts, black joggers) in school, for both indoor and outdoor P.E lessons, and wears no jewellery on P.E. days.
Homework
Homework folders will be given out on a Monday. The children will have spellings to copy and learn, a grammar activity and a maths sheet to complete weekly. The completed homework folder is due back into school every Friday.
Sometimes, the children will be set a task to complete and submit online using the ‘My Maths’ website. There is also an online lesson to accompany each task. The lesson will support your children with their homework task and will also help parents to keep up to date with current methods. The children’s tasks will be set on a Monday and need to be submitted by the Friday. We would like all children to achieve at least 80% on each activity. If your child doesn’t reach this percentage, please ask them to watch the online lesson and repeat the task. If you do not have internet access at home, the school will provide access to the internet during breakfast club and thedaily lunchtime homework club.
All Year 5 should be taking advantage for Homework Lunchtime Club which Mrs Beecham runs every day. The children can work on their paper based work or their ‘My Maths’.
Reading
In KS2, the children should be reading as often as possible. Try and aim to hear your child read at least 4-5 times a week, even if your child is a competent reader. Please then make a note of this in your child’s homework diary.
Spellings
Please remember to encourage your child to use this strategy for learning spellings- Look-Cover-Write-Check. This year your child will need to find out and learn the meanings of the words each week and write them in a sentence to show that they understand how to use them.
Websites
To help support your child’s learning over the course of this theme there are several websites, listed below, which you could explore with them:
As always, please do not hesitate to contact me if you have any questions. Please find me on the playground before or after school.
Mrs Harding