Year 5
Welcome to Year 5!
This term, the Year 5 team is made up of Mrs Loveridge and Mr Barnett.
Here is the link to our Y5 Reading Blog
Our Y5 Classroom:
Our Y5 Timetable:
Our Curriculum
During Spring Term, we will be covering a range of exciting topics.
Maths Mastery - Area and perimeter, fractions and decimals, angles and fractions and percentages
English – Based around the quality text 'Holes' by Louis Sachar. We will cover informal letters, non-chronological reports, setting description, narrative, diaries and character studies.
Science – Forces and Earth and Space
RE – Mission, memorial sacrifice and sacrifice
Topic (Geography) - Climate Change and Biomes, including rivers and the water cycle
French - Classroom items, possessive adjectives, prepositions
PE - Swimming
Home Learning - Maths and English homework will usually be set on Learning With Parents and children will have either 1 week or 2 weeks to complete this. The website can be found here https://www.mathswithparents.com/
The children have been given their Times Table Rockstars usernames and passwords for them to practice at home. You can access the website here https://ttrockstars.com/
Homework in Upper Key Stage 2
UPPER KEY STAGE 2 – YEARS 5 and 6 |
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AREA |
TASK TYPE |
WEEKLY TIME GUIDE |
Reading |
Reading Books |
5 Times a week at least 20 to 30 minutes per day. |
Spellings |
Spelling Zappers |
Children to be tested at least once a week. |
Grammar |
Grammar work linked to weekly focus |
Weekly |
Maths |
Learning with Parents activities linked to lessons in school |
New topic set every 2 weeks |
Maths |
Maths Focus ( SAT Revision) Times Tables Rock Stars Consolidate their times tables & improve the speed of their recall, Learn what the corresponding division facts are. All children must know to 12 x 12 table fact. |
Weekly |
Topic |
4-5 different challenge Activities linked to the current topic chosen from the topic grid OR a project that the children work on over the term and submit at the end. |
Half Termly |