Welcome to Year 5

Class Teachers:

Willow: Miss Brereton / Mrs Sandwell

Juniper: Mr Dobbins 

Support Staff: 

Miss Bensley (LSA) 

Key Messages/Dates

• PE is on a Wednesday. Please ensure your children come to school in full PE kit. 
• Willow will be swimming on a Wednesday commencing on 5th February. 
• Tuesday 6th May - Bookworms Book Sale.
• Monday 9th, Tuesday 10th, Wednesday 11th June - Class photographs. 
• Tuesday 17th June - UEA trip
• Tuesday 1st July - Bookworms Book Sale
• Monday 14th July - KS2 Sports Day. 

What are we learning in Year 5 this half term?

Summer 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 'The Explorer' by Katherine Rundell. 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 Summer term Year 5 will be learning to write: a first person myth and legend using dialogue, a balanced argument, a biography and a poem which explores form. 

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 half term we will be covering multiplication and division, fractions, decimals and percentages, perimeter and area, and statistics. 

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

Geography 

In geography, the children will be studying ordnance survey maps and working on their map and fieldwork skills.  

History

In history, we will be learning about the Mayans. 

Science

This half term, children will learn about Earth and space. Within this, they will look at the movement of the Earth and other planets relative to the sun, describe the movement of the moon relative to the Earth and use the idea of the Earth's rotation to explain day and night. As well as this they will be studying living things and their habitats. 

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/