Year 5
Key Information
Welcome to the Year 5 class page.
Class Teachers
5VP - Mrs Peach
5KH - Miss Hunter
Learning Facilitators
Mr Wilkins
Mrs Wright (1:1 support)
PE days: Tuesday and Wednesday
Kit consists of black shorts or joggers and a white or black plain t shirt. If needed children can also wear their school, black hoody. These should be plain without logos.
Children also take part in swimming in the Spring and Summer term on a Wednesday, with each class alternating each half term. Children require a swimming costume (no bikinis) or swimming trunks/shorts, goggles and swim cap if necessary, and a towel.
Home Learning
Homework will consist of a reading comprehension, maths linked to the week's learning and spellings. Weekly spellings will be sent home on Monday via SeeSaw and children will be tested that Friday. Maths and Reading will be online using the Learning By Questions website. Children will have individual codes to login to the tasks. They will have a due date assigned to them.
Home Reading - Reading expectation is that children are heard read at home at least 3 times a week, and the reading diary to be dated and signed by an adult, stating which pages the child has read.
Book Club
Book Club replaces Guided Reading. Each week, children will listen to or read parts of the book and then have tasks related to what they have read, be it retrieval of facts, vocabulary work or summarising events. We hope the children will enjoy these sessions and gain comprehension skills to work more independently.
We are continuing to explore the text is Cogheart by Peter Bunzl.
Autumn 2 English - Writing will be based on the text 'The Tempest' by William Shakespeare
Topics for the year
Autumn 2 - Arts Unit
We are currently in the middle of our 'Arts Unit 1'. This covers music, art and design technology. In music, we looked at layering using percussion instruments. At the end of the unit, the children performed a class ensemble to a piece called 'Blue Umbrella'. This is available to watch on SeeSaw. In design technology, children are making a series circuit to create a doodler, a product that uses a motor to move a cup across a page and draw as it moves. In art, children will use clay to create simple mosaic patterns.
The Mayans - This is a history topic exploring the ancient Mayan civilization. We will explore their culture and traditions, as well as looking at the Mayan gods and temples. Children will then get to create Mayan festival/death masks using thier art skills.
