Year 5 - Autumn 2

Welcome back 

WELCOME BACK! 

We hope you  had a fabulous half term holiday, and are ready to tackle the next half term of the year!! 

This half term our topic is 'Who were the Anglo Saxons?', this will be mostly a history based unit with some geographical learning and is aimed at developing the children's knowledge of the past and how it has impacted today. We will revisit some prior learning and develop our knowledge and understanding of a chronologial timeline. We will explore how evidence from archeologists inform our knowledge of life in previous time periods. Children will develop their oracy skills and debate who the Anglo Saxons were, where they came from and why they came to England...

If you haven't already, please do read through the knowledge organiser with your child – this will help them to understand some of the key information for this term, acknowledge their future learning, build upon prior learning, whilst developing new knowledge and skills. 

Our English focus is Beowulf by Michael Morpurgo. The exploration of the text will allow the children to write their own traditional tale, focussing on describing the setting and characters which will also allow them to think of an alternative ending. Again we will involve the children using their oracy skills and narrative skills to retell and write about the adventure of a warrior who fights a terrible battle. 

Within the class activities we will be focussed on building the children's oracy by encouraging each child to find their voice  through discussing King Alfred the Great and famous Norman conquest & William the Conqueror. We will work together to develop debating, explaining, reasoning & will encourage the children to develop their knowledge of subject specific vocabulary whilst also developing an awareness of body language, eye contact and voice intonation. 

In Maths, we will be developing our knowledge of place value, multpilication & division. The children will be challenging themselves as we use their knowledge to solve problems and work independently to check their learning using the skills they have been using in class.

This half term the children will need to bring their full P.E kit on a TUESDAY for their PE sessions.

Weekly reminders:

• This half term, P.E. takes place on TUESDAY. Please ensure the children have a kit in school on this day although it is helpful if they remain in school throughout the week in case we need to reschedule and for after school clubs.
• English and Maths homework will be set via Century on Mondays and will be available for a week.
• Spellings are tested on Friday.
• Quick Maths test is on Friday.
• Each day, your child should come to school and come home with their reading book and a library book. They can change these in school as soon as they have been read. Please do encourage them to read regularly and listen to them to read out loud wherever possible.
• Children should also be maintaining their speed and accuracy with their times tables knowledge - Times Tables Rockstars is available for this purpose.

We are looking forward to an exciting half-term together.  As always, if you have any questions or concerns at any time, please do not hesitate to contact myself or Mrs Abbass.

Mrs Whitehurst & Mrs Abbass