Year 5

P.E. Days for Autumn Term:

Our P.E. sessions are as follows:

5B - TBC

5W - TBC

Please ensure you come in your kit ready on these days. This is a coloured t-shirt for your house team or plain white 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 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. 

Our text for Autumn 1 is:

Queen of the Falls by Chris Van Allsburg

Sixty-two year old widow Annie Taylor runs a charm school, right by Niagara Falls. When this starts to fail, she resolves to find fame and fortune by being the first person ever to go over the thundering waters of Niagara Falls in a barrel.

Readers of all ages will warm to this inspiring story of bravery, as they take the roller coaster ride of a lifetime over the falls.

Our text for Autumn 1 is:

Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls by Eleni Favilli and Francesca Cavallo

What if the princess didn't marry Prince Charming but instead went on to be an astronaut? What if the jealous step sisters were supportive and kind? And what if the queen was the one really in charge of the kingdom?

Illustrated by sixty female artists from every corner of the globe, Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls introduces us to one hundred remarkable women and their extraordinary lives, from Ada Lovelace to Malala, Amelia Earhart to Michelle Obama. Empowering, moving and inspirational, these are true fairy tales for heroines who definitely don't need rescuing.

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 and Place Value.
• 4 Operations (Addition, Subtraction, Multiplication and Division)
• Fractions

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 GEOGRAPHY topic for Autumn 1 is:

What is it like in the USA?

In this unit we will be working to:

- Name the states in America

- Locate cities of significance in America

- Discuss the weather and climate in America

- Compare locations in America

- Compare America to the UK

- Complete a case study of Niagra Falls