Year 5
Autumn 1
Welcome to Year 5:
Amaryllis and Gardenia Class
Miss Halai is teaching Amaryllis class and Miss Sellami is teaching Gardenia class.
Welcome
Welcome to year 5! We hope you find the information below useful. This information will help you support your child at home with the organisation of their week and their learning at home.
Key Times
| Homework | Each week, children are expected to learn their spellings, practise their times tables, and read for 30 minutes each night. Additional, optional work may also be given throughout the year. |
| PE | In year 5, the PE days are Tuesday and Friday for both classes. |
| Trips | Royal Observatory, Greenwich – Date TBC |
| Key Times | For Year 5, the school games open at 8:30 for a soft start and lessons begin at 8:50am, and end at 3.30. |
 
What are we learning?
| Literacy | In Literacy, we will begin by reading “Street Child”. Street Child is an exciting, historical story, based on a true story of an orphan whose life inspire Doctor Barnardo to help street children. We will be using the text as a basis for creating news reports and narrative writing. |
| Maths | In Maths, we will be focusing on Place Value, Addition and Subtraction. We will be having an arithmetic focus each week on a Monday throughout the year. |
| Science | Space and Earth will be the main focus of Science this half-term, learning about satellites, seasons, day and night cycles, and the planets. |
| Geography | We will be learning about lines of longitude and latitude, and map skills – this will link in with our work in Science. |
| History | In History, we will be moving on chronologically from year 4, learning about what happened in Britain when the Romans left, learning about the Anglo-Saxons. |
| RE | In RE, we will be moving on from learning about Hindu key beliefs, specifically focusing on the River Ganges. |
| Computing | Our focus this term in Computing will be Systems and Networks. We will be looking at the ways that computers are connected, search engines and catching bullies online. |
| Art | In Art, we will be learning about drawing, with a focus on perspective, and 3D drawing. |
| French | In French, we will start by learning about telling the time in French, and then move on to describing likes and dislikes. |
| PSHE | In PSHE we will be thinking about families and relationships. We will also have a focus on wellbeing. |
| PE | In PE we will be doing football/netball, focusing on marking, movement, passing and teamwork |
| Music | Body percussion will be our focus in music, where we will also start to learn about music theory, including how it is recorded and written. |
| DT | In DT we will learning about food technology, focusing on soups using local ingredients. |
How can I help at home?
One of the key ways every parent can help is to ensure that your child is at school every day and on time. Other than this, the main way you can help is by ensuring that your child reads every day, for at least 30 minutes – this can be with you, or on their own, but it is the most effective way of ensuring that your child progresses and learns outside of school. Practising times tables frequently is vital, and children should be confident in their times tables by the end of year 4.
If you have any questions, please talk to Miss Halai or Miss Sellami.
Many thanks,
The Year 5 Team
