Welcome to Year 5
Miss Crook - Buddleia Class
Miss Kyle - Allium Class
Mr Hayward-Mitchell - Allium Class
Mrs Hosker - Year 5 Teaching Assistant
A Very Warm Welcome to Year 5
Welcome back from the Half Term Break. We hope that you are all well rested having enjoyed all of the Jubilee celebrations and are ready for an action-packed final half term of the year! We are really excited to jump into teaching and learning with an amazing ‘Art and English led topic, focused on some of the works of William Shakespeare, which will end with a trip to Shakespeares' home town in the final week of term.
'Why is William Shakespeare still important today?'
This half term the children will be studying 'A Midsummer Night's Dream', one of the famous works of William Shakespeare. Through History lessons, they will learn about the Elizabethan Era and how people lived during the time. We will be reading an abridged version of A Midsummer Night's Dream, which will hook the children into writing playscripts and sonnets.
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This half term, we will also be learning about:
- MATHS – Multiplying Fractions, recapping the four operations and consolidating our knowledge from the year in preparation for Year 6
- SCIENCE – Animals, including Humans
- COMPUTING - Programming skills using Microbits, designing and making our own digial musical instrument
- HISTORY – The Elizabethan Era
- ART & DT – Naïve art, focusing on the works of Lowry and Giaocometti, and making our own 'Honey Loaf' bread
- RE – Sikhism
- SPANISH – Continuing to use oral and written vocabulary to describe food and language used when in a restaurant
- PSHE – Relationships Education and SRE
- MUSIC – Learning to play the recorder
- OUTDOOR LEARNING – Re-enacting playscripts in a traditional outdoor setting
- PE – Cricket and Dance
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.
Key Dates for Summer 2
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Wednesday 8th June 2022
Class Photographs
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13th - 17th June 2022
Hathersage Week
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Wednesday 22nd June 2022
Y5/6 Sports Day
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Friday 24th June 2022
Level 1 Bikeability Mop Up
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WC 27th June 2022
SRE Week
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Friday 1st July 2022
INSET DAY
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4th-5th July 2022
Level 1 Bikeability Mop Up
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24th June 2022
Transition Days
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Wednesday 20th July 2022
Y5 Trip to Stratford
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Friday 22nd July 2022
Last Day of Term
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PE and Outdoor Learning
In the Summer term, PE takes place on Wednesdays. Please could all children wear their PE kits to school each Wednesday. PE kits consist of PLAIN black shorts or jogging bottoms, PLAIN white t-shirt, and trainers. Children should wear their school jumper too. The children will take part in Outdoor Learning every other week. Please see the timetable for this half term below:
TIMETABLE COMING SHORTLY
Homework in Year 5
Each week, we ask that all children read with somebody at home at least three times a week. This could be any adult, an older sibling or friend. Every little bit of reading really does help children on their learning journey. 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!
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Happy Easter!!
1.4.22
Thank you everybody for such an amazing Spring Term. All of the children have worked so hard and have fully emersed themselves in all of our learning. Have a restful break, enjoy lots of time together and we look forward to welcoming you back on Tuesday 19th April 2022.
Kind regards,
Mr Hayward-Mitchell and Miss Kyle.
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Amazing Reading in Y5!
WC 7.3.22
Wow! Reading across Year 5 has been incredible over the last few weeks. Over 90% of the children are managing to read at home three or more times a week. We talked together in assembly this week about how we all read throughout every day. Remember, if you've read some instructions, helped to follow a recipe to make dinner, or read an article online, this is all reading too! Allium and Buddleia - remember to write these activities in your Communication Diaries too!
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Y5 Bike Ability - Spring 1
A huge well done to all of the children who took part in Bikeability over the past few weeks. Many of the children have passed both their Level 1 and 2 qualifications. You should all be very proud.
The Bikeability team will be joining us later in the year too, so if you missed out this time around, don't worry!
Well done all!
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W/C 04/10/21
Year 5 continue to impress us with their attitude to learning this term. You are all working so hard – well done!
This week, we are writing our own non-fiction historical reports, gathering all of our information that we have gathered about the Benin in West Africa. We have also been looking closely at phrases and clauses, focusing specifically on recognising subordinate clauses. In Maths, we are revising negative numbers, increasing our confidence with these by counting on numberlines to solve problems that use negative numbers.
On Thursday afternoon, Allium class are continuing their...
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WC 20.9.21
Well done to all of Year 5 on their tremendous attitude to learning since returning to school. We are all so proud of the efforts that you are putting into your learning.
This week we are continuing or study of the Benin in Africa. We are looking at the historical timeline of the Benin in topic lessons, and using this information to help us in the next few weeks in our historical enquiry. In English, we are innovating our own stories, using lots of the grammatical features, including speech marks and non-finite verb clauses. In Maths, we continue to develop our understanding of place value,...
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WC 8/11/21
We hope you all had a wonderful, restful half term break. We would first like to thank all parents and carers for their cooperation and support with the Parents' and Carers' Consulations last week. It was lovely to speak formally with you about your child's progress so far in Year 5, and hear about how we can better support each child going forward.
This week, in English and Topic, we are delving into the topic of the Space Race, looking specifically at renowned research mathematician Katherine Johnson. We are currently enjoying conducting some thorough research through different media ready for...
Read more: WC 8/11/21
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WC 11/10/21
We would like to thank every child in Year 5 for giving it their all in this first half term back. You have all made it such a wonderful success!
This week, one of our main focusses is Black History Month. In English, we are writing our own historical reports and diary entries about the Windrush, following an inspirational and emotional assembly last week about the importance of Black History. We are enjoying finishing this term off with some amazing Take Care Writing.
In Maths, we are testing our knowledge on place value, addition, subtraction and multiplication ready for next term. We have...
Read more: WC 11/10/21
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WC 04/10/21
Year 5 continue to impress us with their attitude to learning this term. You are all working so hard – well done!
This week, we are writing our own non-fiction historical reports, gathering all of our information that we have gathered about the Benin in West Africa. We have also been looking closely at phrases and clauses, focusing specifically on recognising subordinate clauses. In Maths, we are revising negative numbers, increasing our confidence with these by counting on numberlines to solve problems that use negative numbers.
On Thursday afternoon, Allium class are continuing their...
Read more: WC 04/10/21
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WC 20/09/21
Well done to all of Year 5 on their tremendous attitude to learning since returning to school. We are all so proud of the efforts that you are putting into your learning.
This week we are continuing or study of the Benin in Africa. We are looking at the historical timeline of the Benin in topic lessons, and using this information to help us in the next few weeks in our historical enquiry. In English, we are innovating our own stories, using lots of the grammatical features, including speech marks and non-finite verb clauses. In Maths, we continue to develop our understanding of place value,...
Read more: WC 20/09/21
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