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Mrs Schauer and Mrs Hall warmly welcome you to Year 5!

Year 5’s Summer Term Learning Journey

Religion

We continue to follow ‘The Way, The Truth and the Life’ syllabus.

Our first unit this term is ‘Life in the Risen Lord’ where we reflect on the resurrection and it’s meaning to us before looking at different types of prayer, its importance to us, with a particular focus on the rosary.

Following this we will move onto the unit ‘People of other Faiths’ where we will study the faiths of Judaism and Islam, their beliefs and celebrations. We will also look at Buddhism and Sikhism, before comparing all the different faiths with Christianity.

Maths

This term the children will continue to follow the National Curriculum for Maths using the Power Maths scheme of work where we will consolidate prior knowledge and extend the children’s skills. Areas of the Maths curriculum we will cover include decimals, geometry and measure. To support learning in these areas, it is really important that your child practises their times tables and weekly times tables tests will be given as well as regular mental maths activities.

English

Our first class text this term will be ‘The Explorer’ written by Katherine Rundell. This text will be used for our whole class guided reading and VIPERS sessions and will be the basis of lots of different genres of writing, including descriptive character and setting writing, narrative, radio broadcasts and diary entries.

Once this text has been completed, we will move onto study Shakespeare’s ‘Macbeth’ where we will act out scenes from the play and write our own versions of particular key parts as well as compare the characters of Macbeth and Lady Macbeth.

Our final text will introduce the children to the author Louis Sacher as we read ‘There’s a Boy in the Girl’s Bathroom’. This text will allow for lots of discussion on friendship and be used as another whole class guided reading text.

In addition, discrete grammar, spelling and handwriting lessons will also be taught. It is also important that you continue to listen to your child read at home and record in their reading record. The children can complete their own entries about the content of their reading but parents still need to sign them. Weekly spellings will continue to be sent home and need to be practised for our weekly spelling test.

Science

We will continue to study some exciting Science topics this term. Our first will be ‘Living things and their Habitats’ where we look at how plants reproduce as well as the life cycles of different animals. This will be followed by the topic ‘Animals including Humans’ where we will look at how animals grow and develop from babies through to old age. More information about this topic will be sent out nearer the time to help prepare for any interesting questions which the children may ask at home!

History

Our history unit for the first half of this summer term will be ‘The Shang Dynasty’. During this unit we will explore all about the Shang Dynasty of China and how we know about it. We will look at the evidence surrounding the Shang king and find out about Shang royal burials. Alongside this, we will look at what ordinary life was like for people during the Shang Dynasty, find out about the writing and calendar created during the Shang Dynasty and then why the Shang Dynasty ended. In May, we will be taking part in a workshop linked to the Shang Dynasty.

Geography

The second half of this term will see us study a geography unit where we will study the country China – this links nicely with our history unit from the previous half term. During this unit we will know where China is in the world, explore the human impact on China’s physical geography as well as investigating China’s economic growth and its effect on the country. We will also learn about China’s famous tourist attractions and find out about the culture of China

Art, DT and Computing

We will continue to study separate units of Art, DT and computing. In Art, our unit is ‘Painting and mixed media: Portraits’ where we will look at using different medias to create portraits, including self-portraits.  In DT we will design and make the strongest spaghetti bridges and computing will see us complete our games.

Music and MFL

MFL (French) lessons will continue with Mrs Davies teaching French on a Friday afternoon. Music lesson will be taught discretely and will begin with a unit exploring Samba music.

P.E. and swimming

PE will continue to take place on Mondays and Fridays. It may well be warm enough for your child to wear PE shorts and top with a navy or black jumper/hoodie, but if the weather gets cooler, they will need to wear navy or black joggers or leggings. PE uniform must be in school colours and earring s must be removed for all PE lessons. Please ensure that PE jumpers/hoodies are clearly named as with all items of school uniform and are in school on Mondays and Fridays.

Swimming will take place on Thursday afternoons for those children who have not passed their 25m badge and they will have received a separate letter. This will be on alternate weeks for these children, starting on Thursday 8^th May. Please ensure swimming kit is in school on the Thursdays swimming is taking place.

What homework will my child have to complete in Year 5?

All homework tasks are intended to benefit your child’s learning, by consolidating work done in school, and encouraging them to work more independently.  Homework will be recorded on Class Dojo.

In Year 5, your child will receive homework in accordance with the school’s homework policy. This will include:

• Daily reading
• Spellings (set on a Friday, for a test the following Friday)  
• One Maths or English task per week (set on a Friday and due the following Friday, at the latest)
• Occasional Topic, Science or Religion based tasks.
• TTRockstars

Many thanks in advance for your support. I really appreciate your co-operation in supporting your child in the best possible way. Please do not hesitate to contact me should you have any queries and I look forward to working with you again through this next term.

Mrs Schauer

TTRS!

Get playing Times Tables Rockstars! 

You can use the login assigned to you last year to use Times Tables Rockstars at home - get challenging your friends and see if you can make it to the top of the weekly Hall of Fame Leaderboard!

Some useful websites:

For extra maths practice at home don't forget to log into ActiveLearn...

https://www.activelearnprimary.co.uk/login?v=pupil&c=0

http://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/ks2/maths/

Spruce up your spelling and grammar at ...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/ks2/english/spelling_grammar/

http://www.topmarks.co.uk/english-games/7-11-years/spelling-and-grammar