Year 5

P.E. Days for SpringTerm:

Our P.E. sessions are as follows:

5B - Tuesday and Thursday

5W - Tuesday and Wednesday

Please ensure you come in your kit ready on these days. This is a plain white or red t-shirt, plain jogging bottoms/shorts or leggings and trainers. Please note that football tops are not permitted for PE sessions. In colder weather, children are invited to wear either the school PE jumpers, or their normal school sweatshirt or cardigan. Other hoodies are not permitted. No jewellery should be worn, and earrings need to be removed or taped over. 

Homework 

Homework for Year 5 pupils will be set on a weekly basis. This could be in paper form or an online task using one of our online platforms such as Showbie, TTRS or Freckle. Your child will be provided with a login to access these online platforms, but if you have any difficulties in accessing these - please inform your child's class teacher and we will happily provide you with their login details. 

Our text for Spring 1 is:

Arthur and the Golden Rope by Joe Todd-Stanton

Imagine a vault so cavernous that it could contain all the world's greatest treasures and relics, from mummified remains of ancient monarchs to glistening swords brandished by legendary warriors. How could someone come into possession of such a collection. Who is Professor Brownstone?

Hear the story of the very first items in this collection as we journey to the land of the Vikings. A place filled with magical objects, powerful gods and mythical beasts to be conquered! --From the Back Cover

Our text for Spring 1 is:

Odd and the Frost Giants by Neil Gaiman

Odd's luck has been bad so far. He lost his father on a Viking expedition, his foot was crushed beneath a tree, and the winter seems to be going on for ever. But when Odd flees to the woods and releases a trapped bear, his luck begins to change. The eagle, bear and fox he encounters reveal they're actually Norse gods, trapped in animal form by the evil frost giants who have conquered Asgard, the city of the gods...Can a twelve-year-old boy reclaim Thor's hammer, outwit the frost giants and release the gods? With Neil Gaiman's wit and style, this story transcends the everyday and becomes a humorous, rich and layered tale of a life lived courageously

Spring Term Maths

As a school, we use the Power Maths White Rose Edition to support our pupils understanding of Maths using the mastery approach. 

In the Spring Term, we will be covering the following units:

• Multiplication and Division
• Fractions
• Decimals and Percentages
• Measure- Perimeter and Area
• Graphs and Tables

We will also continue to embed times tables knowledge from Year 4 and transfer these skills into formal written methods. 

Useful website links and support

https://ttrockstars.com/ 

https://mathsframe.co.uk/en/resources/resource/48/column-subtraction 

https://mathsframe.co.uk/en/resources/resource/22/column-addition

Our History topic for Spring 1 is:

Were the Vikings raiders, traders or something else?

In this unit we will be working to answer these enquiry questions:

When and why did the Vikings come to Britain?

Were the Viking raiders, traders or something else?

Where did the Vikings go? How did they get there?

Why are there different Viking sagas explaining the same event and what does this tell us about the Vikings?

what were the impacts of the Viking raids and settlement on local communities in Britain?

What were the Viking's achievements and how did they impact the world?