Welcome to Year 5
Miss Crook - Buddleia Class
Miss Wain - Allium Class
Mrs Laud - Allium Class
Mrs Bailey - Year 5 Teaching Assistant (Buddleia)
Mrs Davis - 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 Febrary break. We hope you're all refreshed, rested and ready to learn!
This half term, our topic is
'How can small actions add up to make a big difference??'
Our class novel this term:
A modern classic, Skellig is a life-affirming story about friendship and the power of kindness. At once deep, humorous and haunting, Almond’s Carnegie Medal winning tale is filled with huge emotions, quiet courage, abiding hope, and a fair bit of magic.
This half term, we will also be learning about:
- ENGLISH - Suspense tales and persuasive writing
- MATHS – Fractions, decimals and measurement
- SCIENCE – Forces
- COMPUTING - Selection in programming
- GEOGRAPHY - Mountains
- ART - Renaissance style and pencil techniques
- RE – The importance of the Bible in Christianity
- SPANISH – Body parts and activities
- PSHE – Healthy lifestyles, sun safety and dealing with emergencies
- MUSIC – Sountracks and soundscapes
- OUTDOOR LEARNING – Working together
- PE – Gymnastics and tag rugby
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 Spring 1
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Thursday 2nd March
Children to come in PJs
World Book Day
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14th - 18th March
Science Week
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Friday 31st March
Last Day of Term
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PE and Outdoor Learning
In the Spring term, PE takes place on Wednesday morning and Friday afternoon. 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:
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Week Commencing
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20th February
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27th February
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6th March
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13th March
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20th March
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27th March
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| Allium |
Wednesday - ODL
Friday - PE
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Wednesday - PE
Friday - PE
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Wednesday - ODL
Friday - PE
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Wednesday - PE
Friday - PE
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Wednesday - ODL
Friday - PE
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Wednesday - PE
Friday - PE
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| Buddleia |
Wednesday - PE
Friday - PE
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Wednesday - ODL
Friday - PE
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Wednesday - PE
Friday - PE
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Wednesday - ODL
Friday - PE
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Wednesday - PE
Friday - PE
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Wednesday - ODL
Friday - PE
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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!
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Bikeability 2023
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Spring 2 Renaissance Art
This term in art, we have been studying the work of renaissance artists, particularly those who share their names with Ninja Turtles; Michaelangelo, Raphael and Leonardo.
We have used different sketching techniques to create our own detailed realistic pieces, focussing on our choice of humnan bodies (hands) or materials.
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DT homework
Shout out to Seb and Viktoria for completing our DT Homework and creating incredible minin anglo saxon villages!
Well done you two!
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English 11.1.23
Today, we created story maps based of the ole Anglo Saxon tale of Beowulf.
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Science 10.1.23
We had an awesome lesson today, investigating properties of materials.
We devised tests to enable us to check the properties of different materials so we could complete tthis table:
We made predictions and completed fair tests to enbable us to find the information we needed.
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WC 2.1.23 DT
This term, our DT project is to design and build and Anglo-Saxon village. We spent an afternoon last week researching what the houses of Anglo-Saxon times looked like, what materials they were made from and investigating design features.
We will begin constyruction next week!
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Observatory Trip 25.11.22
On Friday, we went to the Nottingham Trent University Astronomical Observatory.
It was a truly inspiring trip, we learned so much! We went inside a planetarium and looked at Jupiter, Mars and the moon close up. What was especially interesting was that these planets and our moon are currently visible in the night sky right now, with a pair of binoculars we can look at them for ourselves! We also learned about the constellations and the myths that inspired the constellations.We had an interesting presentaion all about the moon and another about Astronaurts and the history of space travel. We...
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WC 7.11.22 Art
This week in Art lessons, we have been learning about Spanish surrealist artist Joan Miro. We have discussed some of his prominent pieces and discussed what we see in the paintings and how they make us feel.
We then looked specifically at his 'Constellation Series' and looked for shapes and symbols we recognised in the paintings.
In our sketchbooks, we created our own constallation pictures using zodiac constallations as well as signs and symbols for constallations, planets, shapes and numbers, putting own spin on Miro's work.
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WC 7.11.22 Spanish
This week in Spanish we have been recapping the names of classroom items and learning prepositions.
We've been using our Spanish to write sentences describing the position of objects in relation to each other.
Our special guest Spanish teacher Senor Larez was very impressed with our work!
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English WC 3.10.22
This week we have been using Rainbow Grammar to support our learning of using subordinate clauses.
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Art 15.9.22
This term we are looking at the beautiful portrait work on British artist Lynette Yiadom Boakye.
She is an award winning artist and we've been inspired to learn about her style of painting, her inspirations and her composition.
We have used Lynette's style of creating portraits using feautures of people in magazines to dream up fictional characters.
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Science WC 11.9.22
This week in Science we have been looking at the life cycle of bird. We looked at some eggs to see if we could idnitfy the different parts of the egg required for reproduction.
We were surprised we could find all of the arts in a regular chicken egg. We had never spotted the germinal disc or the chalaza before!
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Art 6.10.22
In Buddleia this week, we have been looking at British artist Lynette Yaidom Boakye's work.
She is a portrait artiost who paints imaginary people in a variety of poses. She often creates images by using features of people she sees in magazines so this week we collected images and created imaginary people for our portraits.
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