Year 5

P.E. Days for Spring 2 Term:

Our P.E. sessions are as follows:

Both Classes: 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 2 is:

The Darkest Dark by Chris Hadfield

Young Chris is an astronaut. A very busy astronaut. Saving the planet from aliens is much more important than taking baths or going to bed. Because at bedtime the worst sort of alien appears - darkness. But when Chris watches the first televised moon landing, he discovers that there is a dark out in Space that is much darker than he's used to. It's the darkest dark ever, and he realizes that the unknown can be . . . exciting!

The Darkest Dark is the debut picture book by Commander Chris Hadfield, international bestselling author of An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth, with spectacular illustrations by illustration team, The Fan Brothers. Inspired by Chris's decision to become an astronaut after watching the Apollo 11 moon landing at age nine, The Darkest Dark is an inspiring story about facing your fears and following your dreams. Awarded as a Junior Library Guild Selection in the United States for autumn 2016.

Our text for Spring 2 is:

Exploring Space by The Literacy Company

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 2 is:

Would you like to live in the desert?

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

What is a hot desert biome?

Where are deserts located?

What physical features are found in a desert?

How can people use deserts?

What are the threats to deserts?

Would you like to live in the desert?