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

Mrs Rowlands - Class Teacher (Monday - Wednesday)

Miss Conlon - Class Teacher (Wednesday - Friday)

Mrs Warren - Teaching Assistant

PE will take place every Monday afternoon (dodgeball) and Friday afternoon (rounders). 

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 2

As mathematics, we will:

• add decimals with different numbers of decimal places
• subtract decimals with different numbers of decimal places
• use efficient strategies for adding and subtracting decimals
• multiply by 10, 100 and 1,000
• divide by 10, 100 and 1,000
• multiply and divide decimals – missing values
• understand negative number
• count through zero in 1s
• compare and order negative numbers
• find the difference between numbers

As writers, we will:

• build a rich and varied vocabulary and an increasing range of sentence structures  
• use a variety of verb forms correctly and consistently including the progressive and the present perfect forms  
• use paragraphs to organise information and ideas 
• use relative clauses beginning with who, which, where, when, whose, that or an omitted relative pronoun  
• use adverbs to indicate degrees of possibility  
• use a wider range of devices to build cohesion across paragraphs  
• link ideas using tense choices 

As geographers and world explorers, we will answer the questions:

• Where is Ancient Egypt in relation to the UK? 
• What can we learn about the climate in Egypt? 
• Why is the River Nile so important to the Egyptian economy? 
• What powers the Egyptian economy? 
• Why is Egypt a popular tourist destination?
• What are the positive and negative impacts of tourism?
• How can tourism be done in a sustainable way?

As historians, we will answer the questions:

• When was Ancient Egypt in relation to other early civilisations? 
• What did Egyptians believe about life after death? 
• What role did religion play in the lives of Ancient Egyptians?
• What was the structure of Ancient Egyptian society? 
• Why were the Ancient Egyptians ahead of their time?
• What were some of the significant achievements of the Ancient Egyptians and how is this evident today? 

As learners of PSHE, we will answer the questions:

•  What is racism?
•  How does my life compare with people in the developing world?
•  How is information protected?
•  How can I manage a request to share an image of myself online?
•  How can I manage my screen time?

As musicians, we will:

• sing in time and in tune with other people and the backing track
• remember the lyrics to a song
• identify the structure of a piece of music and match this to non-standard notation
• improvise their own piece of music
• play a melody with reasonable accuracy
• perform with confidence and in time with others
• compose and play a melody using stave notation
• contribute meaningfully to the group performance and composition
• use hieroglyphic notation to show the structure of their piece

As learners of RE, we will be exploring the Big Question:

• What matters most to Humanists and Christians?

and we will answer the questions:

• Why do people do good and bad things?
• What is a humanist? What codes for living do humanists have?
• Where do Christian people gather their code of living from?
• What values matter most to Christians? 
• How do we create peace?
• What does honesty look like in every-day life?
• How do Christians and Humanists know how to act? What do they base their decisions on?

As Spanish experts, we will:

• interpret locational language in a description of South America
• identify and extract key information in simple writing
• construct comparative sentences about South America’s environment
• discuss ways to help protect South America’s environment
• write a set of instructions for creating a healthy world
• script an advert campaigning for action on South America’s environmental problems

As scientists, we will:

• describe how humans change from babies through to old age
• identify changes in males and females as a result of puberty
• explore the gestation periods of humans and other animals
• plot data on a scatter graph
• revise the units earth and space and life cycles and reproduction
• revise the units unbalanced forces and mixtures and separation
• revise the units separating mixtures and unbalanced forces

As designers in Design Technology, we will:

• Find out who wore Ancient Egyptian Sandals
• Design and make a prototype
• Learn the technique of gilding
• Design and make an Egyptian sandal