Year 5
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Year 5
A warm welcome to Year 5, and to upper key stage 2. Year 5 is the year of delving deep into our learning, and challenging what we know about the world around us; Can we change materials? What did the Greeks ever do for us? What is life like in the Alps? We will improve on our research skills and begin to offer reasonable and factual evidence in answering these important questions.
Year 5 prepares our learners for a world by exploring creativity, problem solving, and resilience. We give our children the responsibility and choice over their own learning to prepare them for their futures with high expectations of their behaviour and imbuing a love for learning about the world.
Year 5 Team:
Class Teachers - Miss S Rice and Miss M Vincent
Teaching Assistants - Mrs H Boyd and Mrs S Barret
English
English in year 5 enables the children to explore a fascinating range of texts. We look in depth at our writing and how to manipulate language for the best effect on the reader.
This term includes the Survival Narrative: The Lost Book of Adventure by Teddy Keen and a Dilemma Narrative: King Kong by Anthony Browne
We will be writing in a range of different styles including; Poetry, A Survival Guide, A Dilemma Narrative and a Balanced Argument.
Reading
Reading is one of the most important things that we can teach in school; children can access new worlds and experience the joys of a range of stores! Children should be reading as often as they can, and should be around texts and books that they enjoy. Here are some useful links to use while reading with your children, and some great ideas for books. Don’t forget that we have a wonderful library service in the heart of Liverpool City, only a short walk from school.
This term our theme of Geography: North and South America, this allows us to explore non-fiction texts, and look at a range of texts from the time. One of the amazing book we will be reading if the story of a boy who refuses to give up his family home and goes on an epic adventure through the Amazon Rainforest: My Name is River by Emma Rea
In Summer 2 , our focus is on Other Cultures and Traditions & Poetry. We will explore books from people’s world views that are very different to our own.
Maths
Maths throughout year 5 continues to build on the strong foundations in other years to develop our understanding of number up to, and including, millions. We will apply this knowledge to a range of contexts including formal methods of addition, subtraction, division and multiplication. These will further be developed by applying this knowledge to a range of topics including areas and volume, money, time and statistics.
This term, Year 5 will be exploring many different topics. We will be exploring Geometry, Statistics and Time and Measurement.
Science
Science in year 5 develops our subject knowledge of the world around and what different materials can do and what they are used for?
In Summer 1, Year 5 will be focusing on Materials. We will explore materials and their properties. The children will investigate properties such as, hardness, transparency and conductivity.
In Summer 2, we will explore changes in Materials! We will experiment with reversible and irreversible changes and dissolving and separating materials.
RE
In RE, we delve further into the beginnings of the faith and how the ministry of Jesus had humble beginnings, and is carrying on to this day. We begin our journey this term by exploring Pentecost and how we can transform energy for different purposes.
This work on Jesus’ mission leads into work on Reconciliation and how networks of friendships and relationships enable human beings to live together.
Topic
Our topic this term is History, exploring the question - What did the Greeks ever do for us? We will look at investigating the city of Athens and Sparta. We will compare them using similarities and differences. This unit will link to British Values and learn about how democracy was demonstrated in these civilizations and how they were governed. We will deepen our knowledge of the legacy the Ancient Greeks have left us in architecture, The Olympics, art and theatre.
Our topic next term is about the geography of Deserts. During this term, we will be focusing on exploring biomes and their various characteristics. We will deepen our knowledge of mapping and focus on North America based on how humans interact and adapt to living in a desert.
P.E Kit
PE takes place every Wednesday afternoon in Year 5. Please send your child in wearing the appropriate PE kit (white T-shirt, black/grey or red shorts/leggings, plain black pumps or trainers)
Reading and Homework
Please encourage your child to read every night for around 5-10 minutes. Children will be provided with a reading book on a Monday that is appropriate for their own progress. Children should be explaining what they are reading, and could answer some of the example questions when they are reading.
Homework and Spellings are given every Monday. Homework will contain; weekly spelling practice with a spelling test on Mondays, weekly reading to be completed at least 4 times a week, timetables practice, and a half termly project. Children’s homework is to build their independence in reflecting and recalling what has been learnt in the classroom in order to apply it to their work independently.
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