Year 5 2024 - 2025
Mrs Harkness
Welcome to Year 5!
Mrs Seville teaches Year 5, alongside Mrs Owen, who will teach the class on a Friday afternoon. Mrs Seville is covering Mrs Hughes' maternity leave.
This half term Year 5 will start the new RE scheme called The Vine and the Branches. Our first topic is Creation and Covenant. The children will describe what a covenant is, recogising that God made several throughout history. Retell the story of Moses, understanding the Ten commandments making links between them and Jesus' summary of the law in Matthew's Gospel.
This half term, we are starting to learn about the North America in Geography.
Our Science unit this half term is Forces, finding out about Isaac Newton, gravity, friction, water resistance and air resistance.
PE sessions will take place on Monday's and Wednesday's. We will be focusing on netball and hockey. Remember the children come dressed in their PE kit on those days.
In English we are studying the book Queen of the Falls by Chris Van Allsburg, which is all about a teacher called Annie Edson Taylor, who was the 1st person to survive a trip over Niagara Falls in a barrel. I can assure you, I won't be doing anything that adventurous this term!
Homework
Homework for both Maths and SPAG, Reading will be given out on a Friday and expected to be completed and in school for the following Friday ready to mark.
The children will be learning new spelling rules weekly. Although there will be no formal spelling test, the children will be given opportunities in school to practise their spellings and to apply new spelling rules to their writing.
Children are expected to read out loud to an adult and be questioned on the text 4 times a week. This will be recorded in the children's diary and checked every week. The children will continue to bring their diaries and reading books home every day. Thank you for hearing them read and discussing the text with them - we really do appreciate your support.
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/daily10
https://mathsframe.co.uk/en/resources/resource/477/Multiplication-Tables-Check