Year 5
Week beginning 19th May 2025
How on earth are we approaching the end of yet another successful term?! Time flies when you're having fun and working hard!
Just in case you missed the parent mail -
We warmly welcome you to our parent outcome to celebrate our learning about the Stone Age to Iron Age project this term. Although this is a short term, we are packing a lot of fantastic learning that we would love to share with you.
This will be held in the school hall on Thursday, 22nd May 2025, from 2:15 p.m. to 2:45 p.m., and we would love to see as many of you there as possible to celebrate the work of our fantastic Year 5 children.
Our project for this half-term is "Stone Age to Iron Age".
Important dates and messages:
Worship theme:
Ascension Day 29th May
So then the Lord Jesus, after he had spoken to them, was taken up into heaven and sat down at the right hand of God.
No one has ascended into heaven except he who descended from heaven, the Son of Man.
Curriculum.
In English, we will be looking at Newspapers and starting to type up our Stig of the Dump stories!
In Maths, we will carry on with our statistics. We will explore line graphs, tables, two-way tables, and timetables and begin using the information to answer deeper thinking questions.
In history, we will study hill forts and the Iron Age
In science, we will be studying the inventor of the match and building our own aerodynamic rockets.
In computing, we will use a spreadsheet and create formulae that use text variables.
Other news:
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PPA Days - PPA Days will be every other Thursday, and children should come in wearing PE kits.
- PE every Thursday - Children should wear their PE kits every Thursday.
Homework:
- Please find links to the relevant information below for the Project Overview and Homework.
- MyMaths - We will set up MyMaths tasks termly, based on the learning we will be doing this term. Please let us know if you are finding them too easy or tricky, and remember that below, there are many resources you can use to extend your learning from home. Various MyMaths activities have been set for this term. This is to allow children who like to do more to be able to. However, children do not have to complete all the MyMaths activities. One per week is our minimum recommendation.
- Reading books - we would like to remind everyone to have a reading book in school - this can be a school or home book. We want all children to be able to share recommendations and reviews of what we have read recently. We display books we've read in the classroom to get children talking about the stories they love and inspire others to try new titles.
- Reading records - All children should now have a grey reading record in which they can record how often they are reading. They will receive one raffle ticket if they read three times a week and two if they read more than five. At the end of each term, we will draw a raffle to win a trip to Costa. You have to be in it to win it! Activities in the reading records can be completed at home for fun!
Reading:
We are reading 'Stig of the Dump' by Clive King and using the following Designation Reader sentence stems to start our answers this term. We focus on different skills in each lesson: inferring, predicting, asking questions, evaluating, clarifying, summarising, and making connections.
Spellings:
Our spellings for this term are below. However, we are moving away from weekly tests, using more discreet learning techniques, and applying our spelling words across our curriculum.
Best wishes,
Year 5 Team
Miss Martin and Mrs Fakorede
Learning as a family in Jesus, through Love, Hope, and Forgiveness.
Matthew 19:26: “With God all things are possible.”