Year 5

- P.E. days this term are: Mondays (Athletics) and Thursday (Speed, Quickness and Agility). Please wear the appropriate P.E. kit to school on these days and that kit is named. This should consist of a house t-shirt, plain shorts/tracksuit bottoms and PE trainers. If it is cold, additional layers including a school jumper can be worn.

- Outdoor Learning: Our allocated slot for Outdoor Learning this term is on a Wednesday. Please ensure you have named wellies, waterproof trousers and a waterproof coat in school.

– On Monday, Homework & Spellings will be given to your child to stick in their Homework Book. Homework Books, online apps and Reading Records need to be completed and, if necessary, brought into school on Friday for your teacher to check.  In Year 5, the expectation is that homework should total around 2 hours a week: this should be a combination of spelling practice, online apps and set homework tasks (Maths/English/Foundation).

– Reading at home in Year 5 should happen every day. This can be in a variety of forms, such as: children reading independently, sharing a chapter together and reading on Fonetti (if your teacher has given you access). Also, remember reading to your child and listening to audiobooks is extremely beneficial too! Reading Records should be signed off by an adult, but we expect Year 5 children to record their own independent reading journey themselves. Reading Records should be transferred between home and school every day. Please ensure Accelerated Reader quizzes are completed within 48 hours of finishing the book. See below for the links to assist with reading using apps and AR Quizzes. We expect every child to complete a minimum of 3 quizzes every term.

Weekly Homework

1. Spelling (30 minutes): Worksheet Activity and additional practise!

You can find this week's spelling task in the back of your homework book! Don't forget to practise this week's spellings at the back of your Homework Book using different spelling techniques from this poster: Spelling Techniques Poster. Your weekly spellings can be found on your termly overview! You will be quizzed on these words on Friday! Please note that different children may have alternative sheets of spelling.

We recommend practising your spellings little and often to help you to remember them!

2.  Maths/English/Project Work (1 hour maximum)

You can find this week's task in the front of your Homework Book. It will be either Maths, English or Topic Project Work and will be set in line with your lessons and topics in school!

3. Nessy (15 minutes) - See log in details below

4. TTRockstars (15 minutes) - See log in details below

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Reading (daily)

Reading should happen every day. It can take a variety of forms, such as children reading independently and sharing a chapter together. Remember that listening to audiobooks can be very beneficial too. 

Adults, please remember to listen to children read and sign their Reading Records a minimum of 3x per week. Children can also record any independent reading they do too. 

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Online Apps

Children’s log-ins can be found inside their Reading Records. If you are having problems with these websites, please let us know as soon as possible.

Times Table Rockstars (15 minutes a week) – https://play.ttrockstars.com/auth

Nessy (15 minutes a week) -  https://id.nessy.com

Accelerated Reader (Book Quizzes) – https://global-zone61.renaissance-go.com/welcomeportal/6699465

Fonetti App Download (not for every child) –  https://www.fonetti.com/try-out-fonetti/

Morphs - https://spelling.info/   Firstname.pjs    paulton1

If your child requires medication to be kept in school (including inhalers), please ensure it is in their school bag that is kept at their desk throughout the day. If your child has additional medication, please ensure the office has been informed and parental consent has been given for us to administer it.

Outdoor Learning – wellies/boots and waterproofs. Children should have these in school if they wish to use the playscape and field in the winter months.

Please note that the appropriate uniform and PE are also required. Children should not be wearing jewellery (unless it is one pair of stud earrings which must be removed for PE). All kit/clothing should be named. If you do not have the suitable kit, please let your teachers know. Please contact the office if you have any issues with the appropriate clothing.

To sign up for music lessons, please see the links below:

Rocksteady – https://www.rocksteadymusicschool.com/

Other Music Lessons – https://uksouthglos.speedadmin.dk/registration#/

Email: music@wema.org.uk 

Homework queries can be communicated through the Homework Books. All other queries should now go through the office (paulton_jun@bathnes.gov.uk) or give us a call on 01761 418137. Additionally, we will have Open Door Fridays where you may come into the classroom to see children’s work.

English:

Our learning this term is going to be centred around a documentary video about life on Pandora. From this, we will be writing scientific journal entries as if we are explorers landing on the planet for the first time. We will consider what it was like and what creatures may live there. We will also discuss the effects of humanity, if they were to inhabit the land. Later on in the term, we will be writing narratives based on this wonderful world.

Maths:

We will start the term finishing converting units of measurement before we begin working on our decimals, using efficient methods to add and subtract decimals as well as decimal sequencing and multiplying and dividing by 10, 100 and 1000.

Foundation Subjects:

Music:

This unit explores the music of Bali through two dynamic musical forms: gamelan beleganjur – a lively kind of percussion music originally performed during battle – and the kecak vocal chant. Children will learn about the history and context of both forms, develop an understanding of the repeating cycles that structure almost all Balinese music, and explore and perform the interlocking rhythms that underpin both these musical forms.

Geography:

Where does all our stuff come from?  We will investigate where our clothing and food comes from and then begin to look at food miles and whether buying local produce or food grown overseas is beneficial, taking in to account the amount of food miles.  We also have a visitor coming in from a farm to tell us all about locally produced and sourced produce and also will visit a local supermarket identify all the different countries represented by the food being sold. 

RE:

In Term 6, we will continue to think about why are some journeys and places special?' is staying the same. However, our smaller focus question is changing to 'How might a person’s sense of purpose in life be strengthened by pilgrimage?'

Computing:

We will develop our knowledge of ‘selection’ by revisiting how ‘conditions’ can be used in programming, and then learning how the ‘if… then… else...’ structure can be used to select different outcomes depending on whether a condition is ‘true’ or ‘false’. We will represent this understanding in algorithms, and then by constructing programs in the Scratch programming environment. We will learn how to write programs that ask questions and use selection to control the outcomes based on the answers given. We will use this knowledge to design a quiz in response to a given task and implement it as a program. To conclude the unit, we will evaluate their program by identifying how it meets the requirements of the task, the ways we have improved it and further ways it could be improved.

Science:

We will describe how to recover a substance from a solution; demonstrate that dissolving, mixing and changes of state are reversible changes; and finally, we will learn how to explain that some changes result in the formation of new materials and that this kind of change is not usually reversible, including changes associated with burning and the action of acid on bicarbonate of soda.

DT:

We are very excited this term as we are investigating bread! We are going to be tasting different types to then design and make our very own!