This year you are lucky enough to have 2 different teachers within your class.

Mrs Rowlands - Class Teacher

Mrs Warren - Teaching Assistant

PE will take place every Tuesday and Friday afternoon, when you will take part in some dodgeball and athletics.

For PE sessions please bring the following:

- Black shorts, leggings or jogging bottoms

- White t-shirt or polo shirt

- Black pumps or trainers

It is usually best to leave your child's PE kit in school for the half-term so that it is always available to use.

It is important that your child brings their reading book into school each day as the days on which they will be able to read with an adult may change from time to time. It is also crucial that you listen to your child read each evening and ensure that you sign their reading record highlighting what they have read and how they performed.

Within this class reading records will be checked and books changed on a Friday.

Homework will be set on a Tuesday through our online learning platform, SeeSaw. A link for which is placed below:

https://app.seesaw.me/#/login

All homework should be completed by the following Monday and will be checked by your teacher on this day. Please make sure that if you are having difficulties with the homework, that you contact your class teacher with plenty of time so that they can assist your child in its completion. In addition, the school also run a homework club which can really help support those children that struggle completing their tasks independently.

Year 5 - Summer 1

As mathematicians we will:

• Understand and use degrees
• Classify and estimate angles
• Measure angles up to 180°
• Draw lines and angles accurately
• Calculate angles around a point and on a straight line
• Read and plot coordinates
• Problem solve with coordinates
• investigate lines of symmetry
• Examine reflection in horizontal and vertical lines
• Use known facts to add and subtract decimals within 1
• Add and subtract decimals across 1
• Add decimals with the same number of decimal places
• Subtract decimals with the same number of decimal places
• Multiply by 10, 100 and 1,000
• Divide by 10, 100 and 1,000

As scientists we will:

• Determine the hardness of materials and link this to their uses
• Make scientific predictions
• Investigate the transparency of different materials and link this to their uses
• Plan and draw a table of results
• Write a detailed, organised method that is easy to follow
• Determine the conductivity of different materials and link this to their uses
• To show reversible changes
• To prove irreversible changes
• To explain irreversible changes

As writers we will:

• Use modal verbs to indicate degrees of possibility
• Use devices to build cohesion within a paragraph
• Choose the appropriate register
• Use brackets, dashes or commas to indicate parenthesis
• Enhance meaning through selecting appropriate grammar and vocabulary
• Use precise word choices
• Use emotive language including use of modals and adverbs for possibility (e.g. surely, every rightthinking person would)
• Use persuasive language: quotes and rhetorical questions
• Directly appeal to the reader
• Support points using persuasive examples and provide evidence
• Provide welldeveloped factual information for the reader
• Include a summarising statement

As children who value our ‘Relationships, in PSHE, we will:

• Have an accurate picture of who you are in terms of characteristics and personal qualities
• Be able to explain the difference between direct and indirect types of bullying
• Understand how an individual’s behaviour can impact on a group
• Realise the consequences of antisocial, aggressive and harmful behaviours such as bullying and discrimination of individuals and communities
• Develop negotiation and compromise strategies to resolve disputes and conflict
• Understand that cultural difference can cause conflicts

As readers we will:

Practise our VIPERS skills:

Vocabulary

Inference

Prediction

Explanation

Retrieval

Summarise

This half term we are reading, Goodnight Mister Tom by Michelle Magorian.

As computing experts, we will:

• Tinker with a new piece of software
• Program an animation
• Recognise coding structures
• Create a program for a specific task
• Create a program                                                                            

As learners about religion we will:

• Learn about the story of the Exodus in the Bible
• Think where the Exodus story shows Moses’ trust in God
• Consider how the Exodus story may help Christians when life gets tough
• Think about the importance of the Ten Commandments?
• Consider how many Christians try to bring freedom and justice into today’s world?

As musicians we will:

• Define some key features of Baroque music, including recitative, canon, ground bass and fugue.
• Take part in a vocal improvisation task based on Baroque recitative.
• Play several parts of a canon using staff notation, with or without letter names.
• Compose a ground bass melodic ostinato.
• Notate a ground bass pattern using staff notation.
• Name some wellknown Baroque composers and describe what musical features they were known for.
• Learn a fugue part by reading staff notation, with or without note names.
• Perform a fugue

As artists, we will:

• Learn who LS Lowry was
• Learn what the key themes and techniques of Lowry’s artwork are
• Look for stories told through Lowry’s artwork
• Learn how to create an illusion that an object can change in size
• Understand how to create a sense of perspective in art in art to make objects appear near and far
• Use a vanishing point to show how objects appear to shrink in space
• Learn how Lowry uses movement and character in his artwork