Welcome to Year 5!

This term, the Year 5 team is made up of Mrs Loveridge and Mr Barnett.

Here is the link to our Y5 Reading Blog  

Our Y5 Classroom:

 

 

Our Y5 Timetable:

Our Curriculum

During Summer Term, we will be covering a range of exciting topics.

Maths Mastery -  Transformations, Units of Measure, Decimals, 2D and 3D shape, Volume 

English – Based around the quality text 'Boy In The Tower' by Polly Ho-Yen.  This book is not only a wonderful literary text, but has cross curricular links in many areas, including aspects of mental health.  We will link a lot of our PSHE lessons to this book. 

Science – Living Things and Habitats and Animals including Humans 

RE – Pentecost, Reconciliation and Stewardship 

Topic - Indus Valley and Passion for Fashion 

PE - Swimming

Home Learning -  Maths and English homework will usually be set on Learning With Parents and children will have either 1 week or 2 weeks to complete this.  The website can be found  here https://www.mathswithparents.com/

The children have been given their Times Table Rockstars usernames and passwords for them to practice at home. You can access the website here https://ttrockstars.com/

Homework in Upper Key Stage 2 

UPPER KEY STAGE 2 – YEARS 5 and 6
AREA	TASK TYPE	WEEKLY TIME GUIDE
Reading	Reading Books	5 Times a week at least 20 to 30 minutes per day.
Spellings	Spelling Zappers	Children to be tested at least once a week.
Grammar	Grammar work linked to  weekly focus	Weekly
Maths	Learning with Parents   activities linked to lessons in  school	New topic set every 2 weeks
Maths	Maths Focus ( SAT Revision)  Times Tables Rock Stars Consolidate their times tables & improve the speed of their  recall,  Learn what the corresponding division facts are.  All children must know to 12  x 12 table fact.	Weekly
Topic	4-5 different challenge   Activities linked to the current topic chosen from the topic grid OR a project that the children work on over the term and submit at the end.	Half Termly