to Year 5!

Mrs Hughes teaches Year 5, alongside Mrs Owen, who will teach the class on a Friday afternoon. 

In RE this half term, Year 5 will be looking at the branch; To the Ends of the Earth. We will study the Sacrament of Confirmation, understanding its links with scripture from the words of the prophets through to the Acts. The children will witness how Christians live out their vocation by studying the life of a saint and we will reflect on what it means for a person to be open to the work of God through prayerful contemplation.

In Geography, we will begin our learning about rivers, including their features, uses and different rivers of the world.

PE sessions will take place on Mondays and Thursdays. This half term, we will be focusing on tag rugby and dodgeball.  Remember the children come dressed in their PE kit on those days.

In English, we will be studying the books The Paperbag Prince by Colin Thompson and The Last Wild by Piers Torday. They focus on the environment and humans' impact on it. We will be working up to writing a persuasive information text about pollution how to stop it at the end of the half term.

We will also be studying a range of topics in Spanish, looking at programming in Computing, finishing off our DT and Art units from before Easter, and beginning to learn the recorder in Music. What a busy and exciting half term ahead!

Homework

Homework will be given out on a Friday and expected to be completed and in school for the following Friday ready to mark. The children will be set one piece of Maths homework per week and either SPAG or Comprehension.

The children will be learning new spelling rules weekly.  Although there will be no formal spelling test, the children will be given opportunities in school to practise their spellings and to apply new spelling rules to their writing. Spellings will be sent home each week so that the children may practise the rules at home if they wish.

Children are expected to read out loud to an adult and be questioned on the text 4 times a week. This will be recorded in the children's diary and checked every week. The children will continue to bring their diaries and reading books home every day. Thank you for hearing them read and discussing the text with them - we really do appreciate your support.

Useful Websites

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/daily10 

https://mathsframe.co.uk/en/resources/resource/477/Multiplication-Tables-Check

https://spellingframe.co.uk/