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. 
• Willow 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?

Spring 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 'Boy in a Tower' by Polly Ho-Yen. 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 Spring term Year 5 will be learning to write: a third person story set in another culture, a formal letter of application, a biography and a playscript retelling. 

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 complete our section on fractions, revisit multiplication and division, and explore length and perimeter. 

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

Geography 

In geography, we will focus on map skills – Four and Six Figure Grid References. Pupils should extend their knowledge and understanding beyond the local area to include the United Kingdom and Europe, North and South America.

History

In history, we will look at non European societies (the Maya).

Science

This half term, children will learn about Forces. Developing and understanding of gravity acting between the Earth and the falling object, the effects of air resistance, water resistance and friction, and recognise that some mechanisms including levers, pulleys and gears allow a smaller force to have a greater effect.

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/