Welcome to Year 5

Class Teachers:

Willow: Mr Wicks

Juniper: Mr Dobbins 

Support Staff: 

Mrs Harper

Key Messages/Dates

• PE is on a Wednesday. Please ensure your children come to school in full PE kit. 
• Juniper class will be swimming this half term during their PE lessons. Please ensure they come to school with their swimming equipment (towel, swimming costume, swimming hat which is mandatory to be allowed in the pool, swimming goggles are optional)

What are we learning in Year 5 this half term?

Autumn 1

Reading

These are the texts that we cover throughout the year:

At St Margaret's we are passionate about reading! We teach a daily reading session based on a  Curriculum for Unity School’s Partnership (CUSP) text.

This half term, our core text is 'Shackleton's Journey' by William Grill. The core texts are supplemented by a variety of additional texts, to support children developing their reading fluency and confidence across a range of text types.

Writing

At St Margaret's Primary Academy we follow CUSP for our writing curriculum. The CUSP curriculum is a vocabulary rich, knowledge based approach to help develop pupils' retrieval, vocabulary and deepen learning. During Autumn term Year 5 will be learning to write: a third person story set in another culture, a formal letter of application, poetry using word play and balanced arguments. 

Maths 

At St Margaret's Primary Academy we adopt a Mastery approach to teach maths lessons. The mastery approach supports children in becoming fluent and confident mathematicians. Maths lessons include ‘Flashback 4’ where children recap 4 previously learnt skills, fluency activities and opportunities for children to apply their knowledge to reasoning and problem solving. This term we will be covering place value, addition, subtraction, multiplication, division and fractions. 

Children will have the opportunity to practise and develop their times table knowledge daily. 

Geography 

In geography, the children will be studying countries of the world and their physical and human features. Within this, we will be studying the effects of different biomes and the ways in which they differ around the world.

History

In history, we will be learning about the Ancient Greeks. Within this, we will be looking at the layout of some different Greek cities, exploring their beliefs system, and finding out about the different city states, such as Athens and Sparta. 

Science

This half term, children will learn about properties and changes of materials.  Within this, they will describe the structure of different materials, uses and properties of materials and investigating different ways in which materials can be changed, both reversible and irreversible.

Home learning

We expect children to read a minimum of 3 times a week at home; this should be logged on Boom Reader. If you need support with Boom Reader, please come and speak to a member of the Year 5 team who will be more than happy to help. 

Children are expected to practise their times tables at home regularly using Times Tables Rockstar. 

https://ttrockstars.com/