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Welcome to Year 5
Welcome to Year 5 Class Page. This page will share the different learning experiences that take place in our class throughout the year. Visit this page regularly to see updates, pictures and videos of our learning.
Teachers - Mr Hughes and Mrs Elvery
Teaching Assistants - Mrs Anil supported by Miss Exelby, Mrs Benathy, Ms Kihara, Mrs Neclea and Miss Mac
Summer Term
Welcome to the Summer Term in Year 5. It has been lovely welcoming the children back refreshed and ready to learn after the Easter Break. We have also been fortunate to begin our summer term with some lovely sunshine. In Science, we have already made the most of the good weather outside investigating water resistance. Coming up in Science, we will be looking at Living Things and Their Habitats and Animals, including Humans. In our Maths lessons and Home Learning tasks we will be using the skills we have acquired in addition, subtraction, multiplication and division to explore our new topics of Percentages, Geometry, Position and Movement, Measurements, Area and Perimeter, Volume and Roman Numerals. Our English topics will help us to write 'to inform' with our Explanation topic, writing 'to entertain' with our Lion Hunt topic and we will also explore different forms of poetry. Through these topics we will continue to look at writing in paragraphs, using fronted adverbials, relative clauses, subordinate clauses and expanded noun phrases. This term we will also look at how we can make our writing even more impactful with the use of ellipsis, adverbs of possibility and modal verbs.
At home, we hope your children are enjoying getting creative, making their streamlined junk-model boats for our Science Home Learning task. Please send the finished boats into school by Thursday 15th May, ready for testing in school.
Things to Remember
- PE is on Monday, Tuesday and Friday afternoons
- Homework is set at the end of the day on Thursdays and should be returned by the following Wednesday
If you finish your homework early and return it the following day, you will receive 2 house points
- Please read regularly with your child and record with a parents signature:
3 signatures a week will get 1 house point
4 or more signatures will get 2 house points
When children finish their book, remind them to take their test on the Accelerated Reader programme - login is in their Reading Record and a link for the website can be found in the Classwork section of our Google Classroom.
We now have stamps for Reading Records so the children can show off just how many words they have read - who will be our first millionaire?!
- Spellings will be tested on Fridays - please encourage the children to practise with activities such as 'read, cover, write, check' or writing each letter in a different bright colour of the rainbow.
- The children also have logins for TTRS (Times Table Rockstars) and the Letter-Join website for handwriting practice, in their Reading Records. Please continue to support your child's learning by encouraging them to practise both their times tables and handwriting, alongside all the lovely reading they are doing.
Our Learning Experiences
Last half term, Year 5 worked very hard to prepare for the SAPSA Choir performance at the St Albans Arena. Mr Hughes, Mrs Elvery and Mrs Vontzalidis thoroughly enjoyed the performance and were so proud of the children singing and speaking in front of such a large audience. Well done Year 5!
In our joint History and Art lessons, we have been creative making our Viking Dioramas (a big thank you to all the families who were able to send in such a variety of resources). We have investigated forces in Science and looked at what sacrifice means to us, in RE, through the Easter story topic. We hope the lovely ladies of our class enjoyed the Mother's Day letters, which this topic inspired!
Looking at the results of our Accelerated Reader assessments, there has been a lot of great reading going on at home, thank you. Going forward, please remember that reading is so fundamental to our class's learning - informing all areas of our curriculum - and continue to encourage as much reading as possible. If the children record it in their reading records, we can see how well you are all doing with this and reward with lots of lovely House Points! Well done Year 5.
Letters and Class Information
Autumn Knowledge Organiser- Romans
Spring Knowledge Organiser - Vikings
Summer Knowledge Organiser - Maya and South America
Curriculum Overviews
