Year 5 @ Mount Street Primary 

Welcome to the Summer Term in Year 5!

Hopefully you all had a restful break and are ready for this term’s new learning.

Class work: We will provide you with pencils, rulers, rubbers, colouring pencils and handwriting pens for those with a licence.  We ask that pencil cases are left at home as there is nowhere to store them safely in class.

Home learning: 

Reading – 10 minutes reading daily. We ask that an adult signs the reading diary and it is handed in at least once per week. This is a whole school focus this year!

Spellings: There will be weekly tests.

Times Tables:  TT Rock Stars daily.

Games and PE:

Children will need to wear their PE kit to school  on a Tuesday and Wednesday for our PE sessions. Children MUST have P.E. kit to take part for health and safety reasons.  Children with long hair must have it tied back for PE lessons and stud earrings must be covered with tape that is brought from home or they will need to be removed.

Kit: Trainers, white shirt, blue/black shorts, black trainers or pumps.

In colder weather, a plain tracksuit may be worn outdoors for games.

As ever, if you have any questions or queries, please do get in touch via Dojo or the school office.  We will always do our best to answer any questions as soon as possible.

Mrs Clement-Stallard and Miss Zarezadeh (Mrs Gocher)

English 

In English this term, we will be developing our writing skills across a range of genres including, narrative poetry, information texts and contemporary fiction.  Complementing our creative writing will be grammar sessions looking at key tools, such as relative clauses, and expanded noun phrases.  We will develop our use of devices to build cohesion within a paragraph and consider ways that we can link ideas across paragraphs.  We will also continue to embed our use of brackets, dashes or commas to indicate parenthesis and the use of commas to clarify meaning or avoid ambiguity.  We will recap key spellings from previous years and then focus on learning the Year 5/6 spelling words as well as different spelling patterns including prefixes and suffixes.

Whole class reading activities will be a part of each day. The texts we will look at will be topic based and include fiction, non-fiction and poetry. During these sessions we will further develop our fluency of reading through vocabulary, inference, prediction, explanation, retrieval, sequencing and summarising (VIPERS) skills.

Maths

This term we will start by further developing our understanding of decimal numbers and how to multiply and divide by 10, 100 and 1000. We will then start working on area and perimeter and finding the area of compound shapes followed by looking at volume and capacity.  Later in the term we will be working with graphs and tables, translation & reflection of shapes. We will also look at converting units of measure and investigate parallel and perpendicular lines in shapes.

Science

This term we will learn about we will be learning about forces including gravity, friction air resistance and water resistance. The second half of the term will focus on Earth & Space including what is in the universe, planets, orbits, phases of the moon and living in space.

Art

This term we will be studying origami and watercolours. We will be using rainforest birds as our subjects and by studying artists Jackie Morris and Mark Hearld to improve our sketching skills. The final outcome will be our own origami birds. 

Computing

In computing we will be using our programming skills to create music.  We will be using 'Scratch' to develop code which include loops to create a soundtrack to a familiar story.  Later in the term, we will be using Stop Motion to create our own ‘story’.

DT

After half term we will be developing our engineering skills by developing Flat Packs using the slotting technique.

French

This term we will be following the iLanguages programme by developing our vocabulary around a range of subjects including school subjects, transport and opinions.  We will listen to stories, learn phrases and practise speaking and writing in French.

Geography

This term we will be focussing on Climates Around the World, comparing the different climate zones and biomes and investigating global warming and climate change and its effects on the world.

History

Later in the term, we will be on a ‘Quest for Knowledge’ which will look at different civilisations and themes throughout History.

Music

As well as singing and performing this term, we will be learning how to play the guitar.  Ms Price will continue guitar tuition using the school’s guitars.

PE

This term we will be working on our athletic skills and preparing for Sports Day.

We will also develop our team skills through the game of Rounders.  We will develop striking and fielding skills and then apply these new skills to small team games. We will also be developing our OAA – Outdoor Adventurous Activities by learning how to navigate a course around or school using mapwork.

PSHE

Following the Jigsaw programme, this term we will be thinking about relationships.  We will be developing our own self-esteem and considering ways in which we can resolve conflict and build friendships.  Later in the term, we will be learning about body image and the changes we will go through during puberty. 

Religion and Worldviews

This term we will be asking the question “How has belief in Jesus as the Messiah impacted art and music?’ by discovering what a messiah is and listening to music. Later in the term, we will be asking the question “Where do I stand?’ which looks at Worldviews through various themes then expressing our own ideas through art.

Author Study

This term we will continue our love of reading by enjoying The Boy at the Back of the Class by Onjali Q Rauf. 

Useful Information

E-Safety

As so many of us are spending more and more time online, it is important that the children have a secure knowledge of how to be safe.  We will discuss various issues regarding this each week.  If your child or yourself have any questions linked to their online world, then please do not hesitate to get in touch or have a look at some of the links below.

Useful Links