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Welcome to year 5!    

Miss Cook	Mrs Gosling

Autumn 2

Curriculum Information

English

Writing: We will be studying 'Arthur and the Golden Rope' and we will be looking at how relative clauses can add extra information. We will be building up to writing our own quest.

Reading: We will be working on fluency and expression. Children will be evaluating the author's language choices, drawing inferences of feelings thoughts and motives and justifying with evidence. They will also identify and discuss themes and conventions.

Maths: Power Maths unit 7 (Multiplication and division), Unit 8 (Fractions 3), Unit 9 (Decimals and Percentages)

Science: Earth and space

History: Vikings

DT: Electronical Systems - Doodlers 

RE: Sikhi. How are the values of community and equality shown through the Sikh way of life?

Music: Blues 

PE: Swimming and dance

MfL: Numbers and money

PSHE: Families & relationships and Health & wellbeing.

Computing: Creating media - vector drawings

Enrichment Opportunties: Reading workshop, Space show workshop, Viking school trip (date tbc), swimming every Tuesday afternoon, mental health week, safer internet day.

Important Information 

PE- Our PE will still be two sessions per week, however we will now have PE on the following days - Tuesday and Thursday.

Tuesday's PE session will take place at Ellesmere Port Sports Village for Swimming on Tuesday afternoons. 

PE Uniform: 

• Team colour t-shirt
• Plain black shorts
• Black pumps for indoor PE
• Trainers for outdoor PE
• Tracksuits, sweatshirts and leggings can be worn for outdoor PE in colder weather 
• Ear rings must be removed and long hair must be tied back

Reading Book Changes

Expectations

It is expected that all children will read at home at least five times each week. This can be a mixture of reading with support from an adult and independent reading. It can be their home reader, a magazine, newspaper, library book, or any other book that your child would enjoy reading. All home reading should be recorded in home-school diaries, this can be as simple as individual date and signature and the book that has been read as well as comment about how your child has read.

All children at Whitby Heath read daily in class whether it be on a 1:1 basis or working within group. As a school, we aim for ‘Strive for Five’. Using our Dojo reward system to celebrate this achievement. As a result, parents will receive a notification of this via the Dojo app as well as children receiving a stamp in their Reading Record indicating their total number of reads each week. 

Each child has an allocated day that their book/s will be changed, linked to their house teams:

Donaldson- Monday (yellow)

Seuss- Tuesday (green)

Dahl- Wednesday (red)

Rowling- Thursday (blue)

In school, we use children’s Reading Records to keep a record of what the children are reading rather than a dialogue between parents and school. We love to see parent comments about how they have got on if you have listened to them reading aloud or have asked them some questions about what they have read. We look forward to catching up with parents about children's reading progress in our parent’s evenings. 

Homework Information

Oracy based homework will alternate with spelling every other week on class Dojo.

Maths homework will be set every week on Mirodo.

Times Tables

Please also practice the times tables that your child is on. Children are tested twice every week and cannot move on to the next times table until they have passed their current level three times. This includes multiplication and division.

ClassDojo

Should parents need to contact the Year 5 team please send a direct message through ClassDojo. All communication from school will be shared in this way. 

Other useful websites for learning at home

• Timestables Rockstars

https://play.ttrockstars.com/auth/school/student
All children have a login for this website.

• Hit the Button

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button
A great way to practice times tables at home.

• Newsround

https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround
A place for children to keep up with current events!

• National Geographic Kids

https://www.natgeokids.com/uk/
A lovely website for children to learn more about animals, wildlife and the world around them.

• BBC Bitesize

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/primary
A place full of information that covers the range of the subjects and topics we study in school.