Year 5 @ Mount Street Primary 

Welcome to the Spring 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 their PE kit in school all week however, PE is on a Tuesday and Wednesday. 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.

Please ensure that all items of clothing are named. A small named bag containing your PE kit is all that is necessary as cloakroom space is limited.  Please keep your PE kit in school and we will ensure that it is sent home each half term for washing.

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 Mrs Gocher

English 

In English this term, we will be developing our writing skills across a range of genres including, playscripts, balanced arguments and fairy tales with a twist.  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 adding and subtracting fractions.  We will further develop our understanding of formal methods of multiplication and division.  We will also be learning about decimals and multiplying factions.

Science

This term we will learn about different life cycles and compare these with each other. Throughout the second half term we will be learning about human development looking at the life cycle of humans and comparing gestational periods of different animals.

Art

This term we will be looking at creating a collagraph for print making, focussing on journeys and using a variety of modern artists to assist our work. 

Computing

This term, we will be covering Kapow computing units and they will include data programming using the Mars Rover as a focus and learning about binary code and looking at Online Safety focussing on protecting our identity and what to do keep safe online.

DT

After half term we will be cooking and learning how to make sauces to accompany a meal.

French

This term we will be following the iLanguages programme by developing our vocabulary around a range of subjects including weather, hobbies and pets.  We will listen to stories, learn phrases and rehearse speaking and writing in French.  Later in the term, we will learn about and compare traditions linked to the Easter holidays.

Geography

After half term, we will be learning about North America and Water. We will be locating North America on maps and, after learning about the water cycle, following the journey of a river in North America finding the features of a river. 

History

For the first half term, we will be finding out about all about the Early Islamic Civilisation as part of our curriculum catch up programme. We will discover the importance of the civilisation to Islam and how the empire ended.

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 practising and learning different balances in Gymnastics using RealPE and developing our invasion game skills through Netball. After half term, we will be following the DDMIX dance scheme and learn how to dance in the style of Hawaiian and a Hoedown and also learn how to play Tennis.

PSHE

For the first half term, we will be taking part in sessions run by the mental health team. Following the Jigsaw programme later in the term we will be looking at Healthy Me through a variety of discussion tasks and activities including understanding the effects of smoking and alcohol on the body alongside learning basic emergency first aid and creating a positive relationship with our bodies and food.

Religion and Worldviews

This term we will be looking at how Buddhists explain suffering in the world. During the second half term, we will be discover how people and events in history have shaped Christian diversity.

Author Study

This term we will continue our love of reading by enjoying Cogheart by Peter Bunzl. This book was chosen by the class after reading a chapter during whole class reading

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