Meet our Year 5 Team:
Year 5 Team
Miss Chapman
Class Teacher- 5C
Miss Spencer
Class Teacher - 5S
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Mrs Chapman
Teaching Assistant
Mrs Bassett
Teaching Assistant
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Mr Harrison
Teaching Assistant
Our topic for this half term is about North America!
In this unit, we will be developing our skills as geographers to identify and locate various states and countries across North America. We will also be investigating climates and making comparisons between different locations.
Useful website links:
Our Pathways to Read text for this half term is:
Goodnight stories for rebel girls - Elena Favilli and Francesca Cavallo
Our Pathways to write text for this half term is:
Queen of the falls - Chris Van Allsburg
Autumn 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 Autumn Term, we will be covering the following units:
- Number: Place Value - (Up to 1 million)
- Number: Addition and Subtraction
- Number: Multiplication and Division
- Number: Fractions (Including percentages and Decimals)
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://mathsframe.co.uk/en/resources/resource/48/column-subtraction
https://mathsframe.co.uk/en/resources/resource/22/column-addition
PE Days for Autumn 1 Term:
Our PE sessions are as follows:
5C - Monday and Thursday
5S- Tuesday and Thursday
Please ensure you come in your kit ready on these days. This is a coloured t-shirt for you house team, 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.
Swimming during Autumn term is TBC.
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 Century. 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.