Year 5 - Spring 2 

Welcome back 

WELCOME BACK! 

We hope you  had a fabulous break, and are ready to tackle the next half term. 

This half term our topic is 'Amazing Individuals', this history focussed unit is aimed at inspiring and empowering our children so that they too may reach for their goals. We shall be sharing with our children a range of success stories from many amazing individuals who have had to overcome adversity to achieve their hopes and dreams. The children will explore people from scientific, musical, political and environmental backgrounds. We will be looking at records and evidence of their lives and how they impacted the society as we know it today. 

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 'Queen of the Falls'. This is a true story set in America in 1901. It is the story of a 62 year old widow who in order to avoid ending up in the poor house, decided to do something no-one in the world had ever done before, by going over the falls at Niagara Falls in a barrel. The exploration of this text and others will allow the children to learn about biography and recount writing. We will also be making links to the children's prior learning from Year 2, Year 4 and Year 5 where they have previously learnt about important and inspiring women in History such as Rosa Parks, katherine Johnson and the Women of NASA. 

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 decimals, percentages, area, perimeter and statistics.

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