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

Miss Waring - Teaching Assistant

PE will take place every Monday afternoon (yoga), Tuesday afternoon (street dance) and Thursday afternoon (cricket). 

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 - Spring 2

Mountains and Rivers

As mathematicians, we will:

• Decimals up to 2 decimal places
• Equivalent fractions and decimals (tenths and hundredths)
• Thousandths as fractions
• Thousandths as fractions
• Thousandths as decimals
• Thousandths on a place value chart
• Order and compare decimals (same number of decimal places)
• Find the perimeter of rectangles
• Work out the perimeter of rectilinear shapes
• Find the perimeter of polygons
• Investigate the area of rectangles
• Investigate the area of compound shapes
• Estimate area

As writers, we will:

• Variety of verb forms used correctly and consistently  
• Use commas to clarify meaning or avoid ambiguity in writing  
• Link ideas across paragraphs using adverbials and tense choices  
• Use brackets, dashes or commas to indicate parenthesis  
• Recap: Extend the range of sentences with more than one clause by using a wider range of conjunctions

As children ‘Living in the Wider World’, in PSHE, we will:

• discuss why rules and laws are made and enforced and why there are different rules needed in different situations
• know the range of jobs carried out by people you know and explore how much people earn in different jobs
• know that there are rights and responsibilities when playing a game online or in a social network community
• learn that you have different kinds of responsibilities, rights and duties at home, at school, in the community and towards the environment
• understand that you will need money to help you achieve some of your dreams
• develop an initial understanding of the concepts of ‘interest’, ‘loan’, ‘debt’, and ‘tax’

As geographers and world explorers we will:

• How do we get water on Earth?
• What waterways are in our local area?
• What is the name of our local river?
• In which direction is the local river from school?
• How are the waterways used?
• How can we Identify the rivers in the UK and across the world?
• What are the key features of a river?
• Where do Rivers Begin?
• Do rivers run in straight lines?
• Where do rivers end?
• Are mountains all the same shape?
• How can we Identify the mountain ranges in the UK and across the world.
• Does the climate change on a Mountain?
• What impact do mountains and rivers have on agriculture?
• What impact do mountains and rivers have on tourism?
• Why and how do you use 4 & 6 grid references?

As historians we will:

• What problem did Isambard Kingdom Brunel solve in his architecture of bridges?
• Where and when did the first civilisations begin?

As learners of RE we will,

• Find out about the creation story in Genesis 1
• Consider what might many Christians see as important in Genesis 1
• Discuss what relationships scientists have with religious worldviews
• Question how and why some Christians see both science and religion as important
• Show understanding of why many Christians find science and faith go together
• Identify what type of text some Christians say Genesis 1 is, and its purpose
•  Consider awareness of different interpretation

As scientists, we will be able to:

• 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 linguists in Spanish, we will be able to:

• Express likes and dislikes about singular and plural food items
• Ask and answer questions about food likes and dislikes
• Listen and select key information about food preferences
• Deduce meal choices by finding out about food preferences
• Conduct an interview about food preferences
• Ask questions in a variety of formats to find out about food preferences

As designers in Design Technology, we will:

• Think like engineers to explore how bridges are strengthened
• Investigate and test structural designs using practical experiments
• Apply our learning to design a scaled bridge prototype
• Use CAD software to refine and present our designs
• Evaluate our work and suggest improvements based on testing

As artists, we will explore the questions:

• What techniques and inspirations were used by the Japanese artists of the Edo period?
• How does Hokusai’s artwork: Great Wave of Kanawawa represent the Edo period?
• How can we design our very own monoprint artwork using layering techniques?

As musicians, we will:

• Engage in discussion about the sounds of an orchestral piece
• Have a selection of varied vocabulary in response to what they hear
• Change dynamics and pitch, differentiating between the two
• Take the role of conductor or follow a conductor
• Change texture within their group improvisation and talk about its effect
• Create a graphic score to represent sounds
• Follow the conductor to show changes in pitch, dynamics and texture

As computer scientists we will be able to:

• Recognise that data can become corrupted within a network and that data sent in packets is more robust, as well as identify the need to update devices and software.
• Recognise differences between mobile data and WiFi and use a spreadsheet to compare and identify highuse data activities and low-use data activities.
• Make links between the Internet of Things and Big Data and give a basic example of how data analysis/analytics can lead to improvement in town planning.
• Explain ways that Big Data or IoT principles could be used to solve a problem or improve efficiency within the school and prepare a presentation about their idea, considering the privacy of some data.
• Present their ideas about how Big Data/IoT can improve the school and provide feedback to others on their presentations.