This year you are lucky enough to have:

Mr Martin - Class Teacher

Mrs Warren - Teaching Assistant

Mrs Powell - PPA cover (Tuesday afternoon)

PE will take place every Monday and Friday afternoon.

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.

Books can be changed daily.

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 look at:

• 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:

• Pose and identify testable questions about the movement of the celestial bodies in our Solar System.
• Use a model to represent the Solar System
• Design and draw a table to record data on moons
• Accurately draw day and night and seasons diagrams
• Calibrate a sundial using a compass and torch and use it to measure time
• Analyse patterns in temperature data for the Earth and use them to predict temperature values for the Earth in the future

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 right thinking person would)
• Use persuasive language: quotes and rhetorical questions
• Directly appeal to the reader
• Support points using persuasive examples and provide evidence
• Provide well developed 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 musicians we will:

• To appraise different musical features in a variety of film contexts           
• To identify and understand some composing techniques in film music
• To use graphic scores to interpret different emotions in film music         
• To create and notate musical ideas and relate them to film music           
• To play a sequence of musical ideas to convey emotion

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 computer experts, we will:

• Explain what a search engine is, suggest several search engines to use and explain how to use them to find websites and information
• Suggest that things online are not always true and recognise what to check for
• Explain why keywords are important and what TASK stands for, using these strategies to search effectively
• Recognise the terms ‘copyright’ and ‘fair use’ and combine text and images in a poster
• Make parallels between book searching and internet searching, explaining the role of web crawlers and recognising that results are rated to decide rank

As linguists, we will:

• Describe some Spanish cities
• Use the future tense to outline future plans
• Ask and answer questions about travel plans
• Create role play conversations about travel plans
• Perform role play conversations about travel plans

As designers in Design Technology, we will:

• To explore the mechanisms for a vehicle 
• To design a vehicle
• To build a working circuit to create a moving vehicle. 
• To evaluate design ideas