Welcome to Year 5

Miss Crook - Buddleia Class
Miss Wain - Allium Class
Mrs Laud - Allium Class

Mrs Bailey - Year 5 Teaching Assistant (Buddleia) 

Mr Barber - Year 5 Teaching Assistant (Allium)

Parent and Carer Meeting PDFs

Parent Carer Curriculum Meeting Y5 Allium.pdf

Parent Carer Curriculum Meeting Y5 Buddleia.pdf

A Very Warm Welcome to Year 5 

Welcome back after our Autumn break. We hope you're all refreshed, rested and ready to learn!

This half term, our topic is

'Is Life in Space the Future?'

This half term we will be learning all about our Solar System, as well as the history or Space Travel and learning about prominent figure in this area of Physics.

Our class novel this term:

The War of the Worlds chronicles the events of a Martian invasion as experienced by an unidentified male narrator and his brother. The story begins a few years before the invasion. During the astronomical opposition of 1894, when Mars is closer to Earth than usual, several observatories spot flashes of light on the surface of Mars. The narrator witnesses one of these flashes through a telescope at an observatory in Ottershaw, Surrey, England. He immediately alerts his companion, Ogilvy, “the well-known astronomer.” Ogilvy quickly dismisses the idea that the flashes are an indication of life on Mars.

This half term, we will also be learning about:

• ENGLISH - Writing biographies, poems and warning stories
• MATHS –  Addition & subtraction, multiplication & division and statistics
• SCIENCE – Our solar system and an investigation into how we can grow food in space
• COMPUTING - Digital painting and desktop publishing
• HISTORY – Influential astronomers, the space race and the Mars One mission
• ART & DT – Studying the work of Joan Miro and creating work based on his constellation series
• RE – Christianity
• SPANISH – Position language and school related vocabulary and converstaion
• PSHE – Health and Wellbeing
• MUSIC – Listening to and recalling lyrics, singing and recognising familiar chord sequences in different genres
• OUTDOOR LEARNING – 
• PE – Swimming and Netball

We will continue to ask the children to read three times a week at home and to practise their spelling weekly. These will be given each Friday and tested the following Friday. We also ask the children to maintain their times tables fluency by being active on TTRockstars. More details can be found below.

Key Dates for Autumn 2

Friday 18th November 2022 Children in Need Crazy Clothes Day £1	Thursday 24th November 2022     Year 5 & 6 Disco	Friday 25th November 2022       Trip to NTU Astronomical Observatory	Wednesday 14th December 2022 Year 5/6 Christmas Concert 1.30pm	Thursday 20th December 2022 Year 5/6 Christmas Concert 10.00am	Wednesday 21st December 2022: Last Day of Term

DANCE CLUB MUSIC VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSUFzC6_fp8

Timetable

PE and Outdoor Learning

In the Autumn term, Swimming takes place on Monday morning and PE takes place on Wednesday morning. PE kit consists of PLAIN black shorts or jogging bottoms, PLAIN white t-shirt, and trainers. 

This year, children will need to come to school in their school uniform and bring their PE kit or outdoor learning kit to get changed into. Children should still bring wellies in a seperate bag incase they get muddy.

Please see the timetable for this half term below: 

Homework in Year 5

• READING: Each week, we ask that all children read with somebody at home at least three times a week. This could be any adult or an older sibling or friend. Please sign their diary and add a comment. Every little bit of reading really does help children on the learning journey.
• MATHS: A vital aspect of Maths is that the children have a secure recall of times tables so we ask that they spend some time each week on TT Rockstars practising these. We also have half-termly homework challenges to complete with children being rewarded for their efforts of going above and beyond by up-levelling to a bronze, silver or gold card!
• SPELLING: We also ask that the children practise their weekly spellings which can be found below. We conduct a spelling quiz each week and these words form part of our English teaching for the week. 

Check out our class blogs to see what we've been doing in school!

Allium Class Passport

Buddleia Class Passport

Parent Carer Curriculum Meeting Y5 Allium.pdf

Parent Carer Curriculum Meeting Y5 Buddleia.pdf

Y5 Weekly Spellings - Spring Term 1

Y5 Weekly Spellings - Spring Term 2

Y5 Weekly Spellings - Summer Term 2

Y5 Weekly Spellings - Summer Term 1