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Welcome to Year 5! We hope you had a lovely summer and are ready to get going in UKS2.

The teaching team for Year 5

Miss Walker is our full time class teacher.

Miss Thackray teaches us on a Thursday afternoon. (Aut 1)

Mrs Mensah and Ms Costa support us alternative mornings.

PE days

This half term our PE day will be Tuesday (indoors) and Friday (outdoors).

Please make sure your child comes to school in their PE kit on this day. When it is outdoors, please ensure clothing is suitable for the colder weather conditions. If they have long hair please ensure that it is tied back and that earrings are taken out or covered on this day.
Water bottles - Please ensure that your child brings a water bottle everyday for use in the classroom, containing water only.

Homework Expectations

NOTE: We are awaiting delivery of our CGP books so for the first few weeks we may just send home paper homework sheets that could be completed instead.

CPG Weekly Workouts

In Year 5, we use the CGP "10 Minute Weekly Workout" English and Arithmetic Maths books for our homework each week. Please ensure that children have a go at all the activities in the 10-minute test and feel free to guide them, should they need some help. PLEASE CAN YOU GO THROUGH THESE WITH YOUR CHILDREN AND MARK THEM - ANSWERS ARE IN THE BACK. We will clarify any queries that the children may have ON A FRIDAY so children MUST bring them into school on a Friday morning (this will be monitored).

TTRS

This will be used as part of the homework and we expect children to be accessing this regularly to ensure they are confident and fluent with all their multiplication and division facts. Please log in and complete your weekly assigned session in your 'garage' before playing in the other areas like soundcheck, studio, gig. A minimum of 15 minutes per week.

Spellings

Spellings form part of our homework and should be practised regularly over the week. A list of the spelling patterns for this term can be found in the English section and lists and dates of the spelling tests can be found in the homework section.

The children will have weekly spellings tests ON A TUESDAY based on spelling patterns and a list of statutory Y5/Y6 words called 'Challenge words'.

Reading

Reading forms part of our weekly homework and the children should continue to read regularly at home. Reading books can be changed on any day of the week. Please continue to record the reading on Boom Reader. You may also want to encourage your child to start to record some of their own reading on Boom Reader too.

Full details of each week's homework can be found by clicking through to the homework section below.

British Values

There are four different British Values that we will be learning about over the year.

The focus for Aut 1 is Rule of Law

Upcoming Events

Thursday 1st October - National Poetry Day
Tuesday 6th October - Harvest Festival performances
13th/14th October - DSide Dave Internet Safety Workshops
Friday 23rd October - Training Day
HALF TERM
Friday 20th November - National Times Tables Day
Tuesday 1st December - Year 5 Parent Event- Design a Doodler
Wednesday 2nd December - Anglo-Saxon workshop day.

Year 5 Curriculum

Topic

This half term our focus will be around geography and the children will focusing on the following question:

Where is North America and what are the key characteristics?

KQ1: Where is North America?

KQ2: What countries are in North America and what are their capital cities?

KQ3: What are the 5 environmental regions of North America?

KQ3: What are some key physical and human features of North America?

English

In English this half term, we will be exploring the book "The Promise" by Nicola Davies, writing setting and character descriptions, exploring using dialogue and creating a newspaper report.

Spelling

Aut 1

Wk 1: ious & tious

Wk 2: cious

Wk 3: cial

Wk 4: tial

Wk 5: tial & cial

Wk 6: Challenge Words

Maths

Numer & Place Value

Numbers to a million
10, 100, 1,000, 10,000, and 100,000 more or less
Compare and order numbers to one million
Round numbers to one million
Roman Numerals to 1,000

Addition & Subtraction

Add whole numbers with more than 4 digits (column method)
Subtract whole numbers with more than 4 digits (column method)
Round to estimate and approximate
Inverse operations
Multi-step addition and subtraction problems

Science

This half term, Year 5 will be learning about Chemistry: Properties and changes in materials

Our Enquiry Question for this unit is the following: How do materials change?

KQ1: What are properties of materials?

KQ2: Which materials make the best thermal conductors?

KQ3: Which materials make good electrical conductors?

KQ4: Which materials are soluble and insoluble?

KQ5: How can mixed materials be separated?

KQ6: What are irreversible changes?

Computing

This half term, we will be exploring Programming Music

Pupils will be able to:

Recognise that Scratch is a coding application with music elements.
Predict the effects of different code blocks and explain discoveries from tinkering.
Code a soundtrack using sound blocks, loops and nested loops to enhance a scene.
Use loops to simplify a program and understand that nested loops can repeat a rhythm or pattern.
Decompose a program into smaller parts and remix existing code in new projects.
Identify errors in a program, debug them and evaluate the effectiveness of a program.

RE

This half term, our focus question is 'What would Jesus do?"

To answer the question, we will consider the following key questions:

* Which two commandments did Jesus think were the most important and why?

* What did Jesus believe we should do about ill health?

* How might Christians help to make our world a better place?

* How do Christians learn about forgiveness from Jesus?

* How can Christians demonstrate generosity in modern life?

Vocabulary

Gospel, commandment, generosity, forgiveness, ‘Foundations for Living’, healing, leprosy, charity, poverty, archbishop

PE

For Aut 1 - PE will take place on Tuesdays (indoor) and Fridays (outdoor)

On a Tuesday we we be following REAL PE Gymnastics

On a Friday, we will be following REAL PE Invasion Games

Reminder: Children should wear appropriate PE kit for the colder weather.

PSHE/ British Values

The PSHE that we will be covering this half-term will cover the following:

* Families and people who care for me

* Caring friendships

* Keeping safe

Music

This half term children will explore Music In Nature: Chords and Melodies

* Exploring Nature's Dynamics

* Cloud Songs

*Creating contrast with chords

* Composing the forest

*Northern Lights

Art/ DT

In Art this half term, we will be looking at Typography

Children will be exploring the following questions:

What is typography?
How can I make typography using my own interests?
How can I reflect on my work?

YEAR 5 HOMEWORK

Aut 1 Spellings

Wk 4: tial words

To be tested on Tuesday 2nd October

Group 1

* circumstantial *confidential *essential *influential * impartial *potential *preferential *residential *substantial *torrential

Group 2

* confidential * essential *influential *potential *torrential

Aut 1 - CGP

Date	Workout Number	To be in school & marked
Wk 1 Monday 7th September	N/A	N/A
Wk 2 Monday 14th September	N/A	N/A
Wk 3 Monday 21st September	N/A	N/A
Wk 4 Monday 28th September	Autumn 1	Friday 2nd October
Wk 5 Monday 5th October	Autumn 2	Friday 9th October
Wk 6 Monday 12th October	Autumn 3	Friday 16th October
Wk 7 Monday 19th October	Autumn 4	Thursday 24th October