Indigo - Year 5
Spring 1 Newsletter
Happy New Year and welcome back to a busy half term with lots planned!
Our PE days have changed this half term. The only day in the week your child needs to come to school in their PE kits is a Thursday, as this is when we have PE. Swimming takes our second PE slot in the week and we will travel to Grand Central swimming baths each Wednesday afternoon to take part in our lessons. Please ensure your child brings their swimming kit in a bag each Wednesday, but that full school uniform is worn to school.
Please ensure all earrings are removed on a Wednesday and Thursday before coming to school as for health and safety reasons, children will not be able to participate in swimming or PE with them in.
We have our Residential coming up, between Monday 23rd February and Wednesday 25th February. We will have a meeting in the Year 5 classroom on Thursday 22nd January at 3:20pm where we will share important information about the upcoming trip. We will also be able to answer any questions you or the children may have. If you can't make this meeting, please let us know and we will make sure you receive a pack with the relevant information.
Mrs Burns and Mrs Johnson
English and Maths
We are learning about WW2 this half term so all our English texts will be based around this. We will be reading Goodnight Mister Tom by Michelle Magorian and we will put ourselves in the role of an evacuee and write letters home. Later on in the half term, we will delve into Anne Frank’s diary and learn more about the Holocaust.
By the time we visit the Air Raid Shelters on Friday 6th February, we will have learnt lots about WW2!
Wider Curriculum
Our topics this half term are:
RE: Is it better to express your beliefs in art and architecture or charity and generosity?
Science: Out of this world (Space)
History: World War 2 and the effects on Stockport
Computing: Online Safety and Databases
Art: Painting (Focus artists – Paul Nash and Pablo Picasso)
Music: Madina tun nabi (Islamic song)
PSHE: Dreams and goals
French: Space exploration
PE: Swimming and Dance
Homework expectations
Spellings will continue to come home on a Monday, and times tables tasks will be set on TTRockstars each Monday too. Children are expected to complete 30 minutes of 'garage' mode throughout the week. Each Friday, the KS2 class with the most TTRS points wins the TTRS trophy, and we have done well with this so far. Keep up the good work Year 5!
Please continue to encourage your child to read several times a week and record their reading in their reading record. For every entry in their reading record, they will get a raffle ticket to enter into our half-termly draw in assembly!
Dates for your diary
Wednesday 7th January - Year 5 swimming starts
Friday 9th January - Whole school panto
Tuesday 20th January - Whole school panto
Thursday 22nd January at 3:20pm - Residential meeting in Year 5 classroom
Friday 23rd January at 9am - Year 5's class assembly on E-Safety (parents invited)
Thursday 5th February - NSPCC Number Day ('Dress up for digits' - £1 donation to NSPCC)
Friday 6th February - Trip to Air Raid Shelters
Friday 13th February - Parent morning with an art focus
Our trip to Reddish Vale
As part of our Geography work on mountains, we have compared our local area to Innsbruck, a mountain city in the Alps. To help us do this, we visited Reddish Vale Country Park and completed field work around the physical and human features we found there. Take a look at our photos from the trip in our gallery.
Collage portraits
This half term, we have created our own portraits using collage and texture. We have built on them over several sessions, using a variety of different mediums - including paper / magazine / newspaper collage, different paints, charcoal and paint pens. We added extra texture using things such as corks and bubble wrap.
We are very proud of the finished results. Please look at our gallery for our finished portraits.
Autumn 2 Newsletter
Welcome back to school! We had a great first half term in Year 5 and we have a jam-packed feiw weeks ahead in the run-up to Christmas. Year 5 are beginning a project with the Stockport Climate Assembly, where we will look at current environmental issues and come up with innovative ways to make Stockport a better place for all. This will be introduced to us on a video call with the Stockport Climate Assembly team on Thursday 13th November.
PE this half term continues to be on a Tuesday and a Thursday (indoor on Tuesday and outdoor on Thursday) so please ensure children come to school in the correct PE kits on these days (plain blue or black joggers with a plain white t-shirt), with earrings already removed.
Please look out for a letter with information about our upcoming field trip to Reddish Vale Country Park on Friday 21st November.
Mrs Burns and Mrs Johnson
English and Maths
This half term, we will explore dual narrative writing and have a go at writing from two perspectives at the same time. We will embed lots of our newly learned SPAG concepts in our writing to make it even more interesting! We will also be reading a graphic novel version of Tom's Midnight Garden, and using this to base some of our writing on too. We will be looking closely at a range of texts in Guided Reading, including Wonder by R J Palacio, and the poem Daffodils by William Wordsworth.
In Maths, we will focus on multiplication and division, before moving onto fractions. Please ensure your child practises their multiplication and division facts regularly, as they require these skills daily for their maths work now they are in Upper Key Stage 2.
Wider Curriculum
Our topics this half term are:
RE: What would Jesus do? (Can we live by the values of Jesus in the 21st Century?)
Science: Circle of Life
Geography: Mountains
Computing: 3D Modelling
E-Safety: Managing online information
D&T: Frame structures
Music: Why we sing and an introduction to song writing
PSHE: Celebrating difference
French: Space exploration
PE: Dance and Hockey
Homework expectations
Spellings will continue to come home on a Monday, and times tables tasks will be set on TTRockstars each Monday too - there is no need to complete times tables in homework books anymore as TTRS replaces this from this half term. Children are expected to complete 30 minutes of 'garage' mode throughout the week. After a few weeks, TTRS 'Battle of the Bands' awards (where classes battle against each other for points) will begin to be awarded in a Friday assembly.
Please continue to encourage your child to read several times a week and record their reading in their reading record. For every entry in their reading record, they will get a raffle ticket to enter into our half-termly draw in assembly!
Dates for your diary:
Week beginning Monday 3rd November - Multi-faith week
Monday 10th November - Odd socks day to kick-start anti-bullying week (no donation needed)
Thursday 13th November (PM) - Year 5 taking part in online Climate Action lesson
Friday 14th November - Children in Need (children can wear own clothes for a £1 donation)
Tuesday 18th November - School photos
Friday 21st November - Year 5 field trip to Reddish Vale Country Park
Wednesday 26th November - Christians in Schools workshop with Mrs Fullalove
Friday 28th November - Non-uniform day for donation of a bottle for Christmas Fair
Saturday 6th December - PTA Christmas Fair (all welcome)
Tuesday 9th December (PM) - KS2 Carol Concert
Friday 12th December - Christmas jumper day and Christmas dinner
Tuesday 16th December - Christmas craft parent morning
Autumn 1 Newsletter
Welcome to Year 5!
We are very excited for the year ahead, and I hope the children are too! We cover so many fantastic topics in Year 5 and we are hopeful for a successful year for all! Here is what we have in store for our first half term...
Please note that PE for this term is on a Tuesday and a Thursday. Please could children come to school in their PE kits on these days, with earrings removed.
Please could we also request that items from home, such as lip gloss, bracelets and fidgets, are not brought into school.
Kind Regards,
Mrs Burns and Mrs Johnson
English and Maths
This half term, we are delving straight into history by learning about how Britain changed through Anglo-Saxon and Viking times. We will look at the poem Beowulf and the Kennings poetry contained within it, and will then focus our attention on writing informative texts based on the book Viking Boy: The Real Story.
In Maths, we will start the year by looking at place value, including Roman Numerals, and addition and subtraction, including using lots of tried and tested methods. We will continue to practise our times tables and mental maths skills, as well as refining our reasoning and problem-solving skills.
Wider Curriculum
This half term, we will be learning about:
RE: If God is everywhere, why go to a place of Worship?
Science: Growing up and growing old
History: Changes to Britain: Vikings vs Anglo-Saxons
Computing: Word Processing and Spreadsheets
Art: Digital collage and image manipulation
French: French monster pets
Music: What shall we do with the drunken sailor?
PSHE: Being me in my world
PE: Outdoor sports (Tuesday)
Gymnastics (Thursday)
Additional information
SImilar to Year 4, homework expectations for Year 5 are times tables / division facts, spellings and reading.
Homework books will be handed out on a Monday, with a specific times table to practise and some spellings to practise. The following Monday, we will have our times table test and spelling test, and then send new spellings and times tables to be practised for the following week. We ask that children practise both their times tables and spelling list at least 3 times a week and hand their homework in on a Monday for it to be marked and new homework stuck in.
Reading is also a fundamental part of homework each week. Children will be able to change their reading book as and when they finish a book, from our collection in the classroom. We will also visit the library on a Monday so children will have 2 books from school at any time. Please ensure your child reads several times a week (20 minutes a night is preferable) and records this in their reading diaries. Each morning, I will collect reading diaries in from those that have read the night before and they will receive a raffle ticket which will go in our raffle bag. At the end of each half term, I will pull 2 raffle tickets out of the bag and the winners will receive a prize. The more raffle tickets a child has, the greater their chance of winning! Please help encourage your children with their reading, as the reading tests in Year 5 are a big jump from Year 4. We will monitor children's reading at home on a weekly basis.
Dates for your diary
Tuesday 2nd September - 'Meet the teacher' meeting in Year 5 after school (see powerpoint uploaded below this newsletter).