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Year 5 Essential Information
Below are some brief details about our learning this half term and some key information to help the half term run smoothly. Please do keep an eye out for regular information about our class on the new school and any last minute information or changes on the school app.
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English: In class we will continue to follow the Jane Considine scheme which proved successful last year. This half term the children will write a recount of their summer; a piece of fiction about a girl who dreams of becoming an astronaut; and a sci-fi adventure Alongside this they will study a variety of texts with a link to Space and the solar system pioneers, scientists and dreamers. Reading: Children are still expected to be reading at home and should all have their own book to take home or one of their own choice, that is at the expected standard for their age . We ask that the children read at home at least 3 x per week. They have been issued with their own Reading record in which a parent/guardian should sign to say your child has completed the required reading. The children are also expected to write down 5 new words they encounter during their reading each week and define them. The records ers will need to be checked in school on Monday, Wednesday and Friday. In class we have whole class guided reading on a range of fiction and non fiction texts, 3 x per week as well as daily story time. Some children requiring extra assistance will be heard regularly in class. You can help your child’s progress by hearing them read for at least 5 minutes every day or questioning them on what they have read. It really is the key to all their future success. Maths: We will continue to follow the White Rose Maths programme of study. This term, the focus will be on shape, direction and position, capacity, decimals and negative numbers. Childrplace value; addition and subtraction; and multiplication. Children are also set 3 mathletics tasks each week which should be completed at home. Please email me if you require their login details. We also recommend they keep practising their multiplication tables on TT Rockstars at least 3 times a week, at home, as this will benefit their division and fraction work immensely. They will also continue to use TTRS in school on a regular basis. HUMANITIES HISTORY: Learning about the Space Race and the early pioneers. GEOGRAPHY: Learning about the differences between North and South America. Science We will be larning about the solar system, orbits, the phases of the moon, gravity and other forces. RE: In R.E. we will be learning more about the diverse religious make-up of our region and what binds them all.
Computing: We will be looking at what a system is and how they operate across various spheres.
UNDERSTANDING THE ARTS ART: We follow the new Art Access online scheme of learning as well as self portraits in the style of Julian Opie. MUSIC: This term we will be using Charanga..
PSHE – Children will be looking at change and managing their feelings. P.E. – This half term in P.E. we will focus on rugby and gymnastics. P.E. Sessions are on Monday & Thursday, so please send your child to school already dressed in their P.E. kit.
Things to remember:
· All children should bring a flask or bottle of water to school. This should be taken home and washed every day.
Please read with your child for 5 minutes every day or questioning them on what they have read. It really is the key to all their future success.
· PE is on a Monday and Thursday for this half term. Children should come dressed in their P.E. kit and will stay in it for the rest of the day. A change of clothing is not necessary. Children need to come to school in a white t-shirt and black shorts or black tracksuit plus trainers. Reading records should be brought in for review every Monday, Wednesday, Friday - signed by an adult to say they have heard the child read that week. · Spellings are sent home on a Friday evening. The subsequent spelling practice of the words is the following Thursday. Spelling practice will now take the form of just 5 words from the chosen 10, with more practising of them all in class. · Mathletics homework will usually consist of 3 tasks I have set the children. Please ensure the children attempt these before playing on other areas of Mathletics as their scores are fed through to me and allow me to target any areas the children might be struggling with. If you have lost your login, please contact Mr Routledge · Children access TTRockstars 3 times a week in school, However, it is recommended that they spend 5 minutes on it every day to get super secure and quicker. · Children should not bring anything to school other than book bag, school book, reding record, packed lunch and a water bottle. May I remind parents and carers to ensure that all of your child’s clothing is named as it makes finding the right owner so much
. Thank you for your continued support. Should you need to get in touch, please contact the school office or my email address
Glen.routledge@adel-st-john.leeds.sch.uk
Mr Routledge
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Year 5 Class Blog
week ending 14th November
Peter Dalrymple (PDalrymple) on: Year 5 Class Blog
Hello again,
Sorry for the dramatic end to the school week but obviously the children's safety is paramount and hey, at least it happened on a Friday! This week, the children have been practising performance poetry and looking at a famous war poem in preparation for our class collective worship on Wednesday (more on that later). In maths we have continued our work with fractions, converting mixed numbers into improper fractions (and vice versa) and comparing fractions. I'll write some out at the bottom of this blog for any parents in need of activities for your child. As i keep telling the children, its vital they are secure with multiplication facts as its all about multiplying and dividing with the fractions, so far. So please encourage them to go and practice on TTRS today. In computing we have continued to practice shooting videos; looked at how to stand up to bullies as part of anti-bullying week; enjoyed forest school and P.E; experimented with gravity in science and started to devise our collective worship for Wednesday - which we were due to start rehearsing today. I will attach the poem the children need to learn, below. If they could spend some time on it today and over the weekend, that would be great. I'll also attach the spellings to be learnt and put some maths work on Mathletics.
Spellings:
wrestle
wrapper
island
aisle
debris
mortgage
castle
yacht
guarantee
guilty
Maths - convert mixed into improper and improper into mixed (sorry, all the digits are the same size font and the line is oblique instead of horizontal)
MIXED to improper 2 1/3 = 3 3/4 = 1 5/12= 4 5/6
IMPROPER to mixed 8/3 = 12/5= 21/8= 13/7
Which fraction is greater 2/5 or 1/2 2/3 or 3/4 2/9 or 1/3 6/7or3/4
Remember you need to find common multiples for the denominators first. Whatever you have to multiply the bottom by, you do to the .......
And finally, the poem to practice - when you've learnt it, record yourself or watch yourself in the mirror. Are you using expression and body language. Does your tone alter or match the feeling of the verse. Is there anywhere for dramatic pauses, or a change in volume? Does the rhythm sound right. Are you enunciating clearly (especially if there's a Tee in it, darling!)
I heard the bells on Christmas Day
Their old, familiar carols play,
And wild and sweet
The words repeat
Of peace on earth, good-will to men!
And thought how, as the day had come,
The belfries of all Christendom
Had rolled along
The unbroken song
Of peace on earth, good-will to men!
Till ringing, singing on its way,
The world revolved from night to day,
A voice, a chime,
A chant sublime
Of peace on earth, good-will to men!
Then from each black, accursed mouth
The cannon thundered in the South,
And with the sound
The carols drowned
Of peace on earth, good-will to men!
It was as if an earthquake rent
The hearth-stones of a continent,
And made forlorn
The households born
Of peace on earth, good-will to men!
And in despair I bowed my head;
"There is no peace on earth," I said;
"For hate is strong,
And mocks the song
Of peace on earth, good-will to men!" (Have a bell tolling then changing into xmas bells)
Then pealed the bells more loud and deep:
"God is not dead, nor doth He sleep;
The Wrong shall fail,
The Right prevail,
With peace on earth, good-will to men."
As to the rest of the collective worship, I will write up something today until my laptop dies (my plug is in my classroom!) and you can read from the script on Wednesday, so don't worry about knowing what to do.
Enjoy your extended weekend!
Week ending 7th November
Peter Dalrymple (PDalrymple) on: Year 5 Class Blog
Hello,
I'm back and it's like I've never been away! As the nights draw in and thoughts start to turn to winter wonderlands, the children have been back in class giving their all, as always. This week we have embarked on the dreaded FRACTIONS, for what will be most of the half term. The children will struggle at various points and the best way you can help them is to practise their times table knowledge and turning those multiplication facts into division facts. Weekly mathletics will also give them practice. In writing we have been playing with fronted adverbials in order to write a detailed setting description; reading about solar panels in guided reading; Learning about video techniques in computing; understanding why objects fall in science on the topic of gravity; looking at Old Testament prophecies of the birth of Jesus in R.E.; Studying aread of America in geography as well as PSHE and French. The biggest change this week, has been the start of forest school on Wednesdays for half the class, which the children loved. The rest of the class devised dance pieces based on the 'Dance by Chance' programme and played dodgeball. Wednesday is the only day that children need come in PE kit or 'older' clothing for forest school.
Next week is Anti-bullying week in which children can wear odd socks. And if they wish, hand their posters in on Monday. The week ends on Friday with a dance-athon on Children in Need day at which I am deejaying, apparently?!
Have a great weekend. Don't forget the firework display on Saturday.
Mr Routledge
week ended 2nd October
Peter Dalrymple (PDalrymple) on: Year 5 Class Blog
Hello again,
Another busy and fun filled week in Year 5 draws to a close. This week we have been practising mental arithmetic and rounding methods for addition and subtraction; editing and re writing our moon stories; Reading sci-fi in guided reading; learning about the seasons in French; making lino prints of the moon; working out the system processes used in a puffin crossing in computing; waiting for the sun to come out and cast shadows in the playground for our observation recordings to explain how the Earth rotates; chased each other around the field in P.E., playing tag rugby; and rounded off the week with a visit from a planetarium which showed the space race and then a look at the planets in our solar system (though the children's favourite part was when he ripped the roof off the planetarium!).
I have had enquiries about payment schemes for Whitby. I am hoping to get in contact with companies in Whitby and get finalised costings over half term. Once established I will send out letters with parent pay details on so you can start paying in instalments if you wish. As previously mentioned it will (hopefully) be around £155. The deposit of £25 has already been paid and because of the date change we will have until the end of April before payment is due.
A reminder that reading records should be signed by an adult to say the child has read and brought into schools on Monday, Wednesday and Friday.
Have a great weekend.
Week ending 25th September
Peter Dalrymple (PDalrymple) on: Year 5 Class Blog
Hello again,
Well, we've just about recovered from the craziness of TT Rockstar day and back to normal, or what passes for normal in Year 5. This week the children did exceptionally well in their end-of-unit Place Value test and have now moved onto addition and subtraction. In English we attempted our first independent write story and in P.E played rugby and practiced our gymnastic vaulting. In science we have looked at the phases of the moon and begun our moon pictures in art. We have been comparing different religions and looking for the similarities in P.E. While in history we continued to look at the race to the moon in the Space Race between USA and the USSR. In Computing we have continued to get to grips with various systems.
Next week, we have the planetarium coming into school on Thursday morning. If you have not yet had a chance to do so, please pay parent pay as per the letter that went home.
A reminder that spellings are sent home and practised the following Thursday and 3 new mathletics assignments are set each week. Anyone with 10 or more outstanding assignments will be asked to attend lunchtime mathletics club.
Have a great weekend.
Mr Routledge
Week ending 18th September
Peter Dalrymple (PDalrymple) on: Year 5 Class Blog
Hello again,
Another action packed week has just flown by. This week the children have been showing their excellence at place value and numner lines with numbers up to a million; reached a sad point in their space story (Just check in with your child that they are ok with their emotions as it did feature the death of a family member). In science we have created replica planets of the solar system, to scale; investigated the religions of the UK in R.E; practised our rolls and rugby skills in P.E.; re-familiarised ourselves with TTRockstars; learnt how to regulate our emotions in PSHE; enjoyed circle time and learnt about the early NASA software engineer, Margaret Hamilton.
Don't forget it is TTRockstar day on Friday 19th.
Have a great weekend.
Mr Routledge
