Year 5 - Summer 1 

Welcome back 

WELCOME BACK! 

We hope you  had a fabulous Easter break, and are ready to tackle the start of our Summer term. 

This half term our topic is 'Caring for our World', this geographical and science based unit is aimed at developing the children's knowledge of our planet and the impacts we as humans can have on it. We will be encouraging the children to recognise the importance of recycling whilst testing materials based on their properties. We will investigate how suitable materials are for their everyday jobs. The children will increase their oracy skills as we study biomes, climate zones and shifts in ecological matters.

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 'The Paperbag Prince'. This is a classic by Colin Thompson with a profound message about wasteful cultures and societies. However, it also has a message of optimism with a look at how nature manages to survive and flourish even in a landfill. We will create a persuasive leaflet to provide information on waste management and we will use our oracy skills along with inspiration from the text to support our writing. We will also be making links to the children's prior learning from Year 1, Year 2 and Year 6 where they have previously learnt about materials. 

As always many of our activities in Year 5 build on the children's oracy skills and encourage each child to find their voice whether that is through debating, explaining, reasoning, working in teams or individually. We 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 shape, position & direction and decimals.

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

Weekly reminders:

• This half term, P.E. takes place on WEDNESDAY. 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