Year 5
Welcome to Year 5 Class Page!
A huge welcome to the Year 5 page. Here, you will find the information you need about our class, the current learning and links to useful websites.
English
Children will develop their understanding and skills in English through a rich variety reading and writing lessons. Autumn term 1 writing will challenge children to write a narrative based on the film clip One Small Step. Children will then move on to learning the Highwayman poem by Alfred Noyes. Children will analyse the language used in the poem and develop their writing skills to enable them to improvise it, leading to write their own version in the same style. In the second half of the Autumn term, children will engage with further narratives in the form of Fantastic flying books of Mr Morris Lessmore, and one of the all time great Christmas stories The Snowman. All aspects of the Year 5 English curriculum will be taught through these writing opportunities alongside individual grammar, punctuation and spelling lessons.
Reading
Children will practise reading every day through a wide variety of resources. Each morning, children will read texts and build their word reading, fluency and accuracy, whilst also developing their ability to answer a variety of questions linked to the text. Each week will have a specific skill to be taught and practised.
Maths
Our maths learning will begin with children securing their place value understanding and beginning to read, write and order number numbers up to 1,000,000. Children will then begin to develop their calculation skills when adding, subtracting, multiplying and dividing mentally and by using formal written strategies. During the second part of the Autumn term, children will be learning how to find equivalent unit and non unit fractions, converting improper fractions to mixed numbers and vice versa, and comparing and ordering fractions.
Below you can find Year 5's Key Instant Recall Facts, known as KIRFs, for maths. These are facts that should be practised as often as possible so that children become fluent, confident and can recall these facts instantly to apply them to mathematical learning accurately.
Key Instant Recall Facts for Year 5
Autumn term year 5
Things to remember:
PE will be outside on a Wednesday afternoon and inside on a Thursday afternoon. Children will need black shorts and a yellow t-shirt. Children may also bring joggers, a hoody/jacket and trainers for outdoor PE. Earrings will need to be removed or taped up during our PE sessions as jewellery can be dangerous when exercising. Children with long hair will also need a way to tie their hair up.
Homework will be sent every Friday. This will alternate between English and maths. Alongside those will be weekly spellings and reading to an adult. We would really love it if parents/guardians could try to listen to their child read as often as possible. We recognise that this isn't always easy, but little and often really does make a huge difference.
ClassDojo is a super tool to communicate with us and help us to address any problems or queries as they arise. We will try to respond to your queries in a timely manner, however there may be times where we are not available - when teaching for example. If reporting an absence, appointment, uniform enquiries, requesting forms, then please contact Mrs Newton or Mrs Moss in the office.
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