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Welcome back. We hope you had a relaxing Easter and are feeling fresh and ready for a super Summer 1.

The teaching team for Year 5

Miss Walker is our full time class teacher.

Mrs Meek teaches us on a Thursday afternoon.

Mr Sandford and Mr Seaton support us every morning and Mr Seaton is also with us for some afternoon sessions.

PE days

This half term our PE day will be Monday (indoors) and Friday (outdoors).

Please make sure your child comes to school in their PE kit on this day. When it is outdoors, please ensure clothing is suitable for the colder weather conditions. If they have long hair please ensure that it is tied back and that earrings are taken out or covered on this day.
Water bottles - Please ensure that your child brings a water bottle everyday for use in the classroom, containing water only.

Homework Expectations

CPG Weekly Workouts

In Year 5, we use the CGP "10 Minute Weekly Workout" English and Arithmetic Maths books for our homework each week. Please ensure that children have a go at all the activities in the 10-minute test and feel free to guide them, should they need some help. PLEASE CAN YOU GO THROUGH THESE WITH YOUR CHILDREN AND MARK THEM - ANSWERS ARE IN THE BACK. We will clarify any queries that the children may have ON A FRIDAY so children MUST bring them into school on a Friday morning (this will be monitored).

TTRS

This will be used as part of the homework and we expect children to be accessing this regularly to ensure they are confident and fluent with all their multiplication and division facts. Please log in and complete your weekly assigned session in your 'garage' before playing in the other areas like soundcheck, studio, gig. A minimum of 15 minutes per week.

Spellings

Spellings form part of our homework and should be practised regularly over the week. A list of the spelling patterns for this term can be found in the English section and lists and dates of the spelling tests can be found in the homework section.

The children will have weekly spellings tests ON A MONDAY based on spelling patterns and a list of statutory Y5/Y6 words called 'Challenge words'.

Reading

Reading forms part of our weekly homework and the children should continue to read regularly at home. Reading books can be changed on any day of the week. Please continue to record the reading on Boom Reader. You may also want to encourage your child to start to record some of their own reading on Boom Reader too.

Full details of each week's homework can be found by clicking through to the homework section below.

British Values

There are four different British Values that we will be learning about over the year.

The focus for Summer 1 is Mutual Respect and Tolerance.

Upcoming Events

Monday 21st April- First day of term
Tuesday 22nd April - Diversity Workshop
Tuesday 28th April - Mindmate workshop
Monday 4th May - May Bank Holiday
Tuesday 5th May - History Islamic Civilisation Workshop
Thursday 21st May - Last day of term

Year 5 Curriculum

Topic

This half term our focus will be around geography and the children will focusing on the following question,

Why was Baghdad a significant settlement in the Early Islamic Civilisation?

We will learn all about the following:

KQ1: When was the Islamic Civilisation founded and how did it spread so far so quickly?

KQ2: What were the important features of the city of Baghdad?

KQ3: Which of the early Islamic achievements has the most effect on our lives today?

KQ4: How did life in the Golden Age of Islam compare to life in the Dark Age of Anglo-Saxon and Viking?

Vocabulary

civilisation, settlement, Islam, Muslim, religion, caliph, caliphate, golden age, trade, scholar, significant, period of history, concurrent

English

In English this half term, we will we completing our persuasive advertisements about California, we will be reading the text Oranges in No Man's Land and writing a diary entry based on this. We will also be looking at letter writing and will write a thank you letter for our Islamic drama workshop.

Spelling

Summer 1

Wk 1: Homophones

Wk 2: Homophones 2

Wk 3: Homophones 3

Wk 4: Near homophones

Wk 5: Near homophones 2

Wk 6: Challenge words

Maths

Shape

Identify angles
Compare and order angles
Measure angles in degrees
Measuring with a protractor (1)
Measuring with a protractor (2)
Drawing lines and angles accurately
Calculating angles on a straight line
Calculating angles around a point
Triangles
Quadrilaterals
Calculating lengths and angles in shapes
Regular and irregular polygons
Reasoning about 3-D shapes

Position and Direction

- Describe position
- Draw on a grid
- Position in the first quadrant
- Translation
- Translation with coordinates
- Lines of symmetry
- Complete a symmetric figure
- Reflection

Science

This half term, Year 5 will be learning about Physics: Earth and Space

Our Enquiry Question for this unit is the following: What is the Solar System?

KQ1: How do we know Earth is a sphere?

KQ2: What causes day and night?

KQ3: What causes the 4 seasons?

KQ4: Does the moon change shape?

KQ5: What are the planets in our Solar system?

Day, Earth, moon, planet, night, shadow, space, star, Sun, tilt,

atmosphere, rotation, season, spherical, axis, celestial body, constellation, dwarf planet, galaxy, gas giant, geocentric, heliocentric, ice giant, orbit, phase, rocket, satellite, Solar System, terrestrial planet

Computing

This half term, we will be exploring Programming: BBC micro:bit

Pupils will be able to:

Explore and test simple programs on a micro:bit
Predict and describe how code will work before running it
Use inputs, variables and conditions to build interactive programs
Create programs that react to sensor data
Test, debug and evaluate programs

RE

This half term, our focus question will be 'How and why does a Jewish person follow God?"

To answer the question, we will consider the following 5 key questions:

What do Jewish people believe about God?
How is the Torah used in the Jewish faith?
How does the Tanakh link to the Christian Old Testament?
Why is the story of Esther important to Jewish people?
How are the stories of Exodus and Passover, and the laws that were given, still followed by the Jewish community today?

Vocabulary

Jewish, Judaism, Jew, Shema, Orthodox, progressive, reform, prayer, belief, Malkeinu, Torah, Sefer Torah, scroll, Tanakh, scribe, Exodus, Passover, kosher, mitzvot, Shabbat, synagogue, ritual, tradition

PE

For Spr 2 - PE will take place on Mondays (indoor) and Fridays (outdoor)

On a Monday we we be following REAL PE gymnastics

On a Friday, we will be following REAL PE Athletics

Reminder: Children should wear appropriate PE kit for the colder weather.

PSHE/ British Values

The PSHE that we will be covering this half-term will follow the unit:

Drug, Alcohol, Tobacco Education

Different influences

Music

This half term children will begin learning to play the Ukulele with Mrs Hunter on a Wednesday afternoon.

Art/ DT

In Art this half term, we will be looking at the following:

Pathway: Architecture – Dream Big or Dream small?

Enquiry Question: What is our responsibility as an architect? How can we make

YEAR 5 HOMEWORK

Summer 1 Spellings

Wk 2: Homophones & Near Homophones

To be tested Tuesday 5th May

Group 1

*aisle *isle *allowed *aloud *alter *altar

*assent * ascent *father *farther

Group 2

* allowed *aloud *alter *altar *fatherSum 1 Wk 2 Homophones Group 2

Sum 1 Wk 2 Homophones Group 1

Sum 1 Wk 1 Homophones group 2 Sum 1 Wk 1 Homophones group 1

Summer 1 - CGP Weekly Workouts - both English & Maths

Date	Workout Number	To be in school & marked
Wk 1 Monday 20th April	Spring 12	Friday 24th April
Wk 2 Monday 27th April	Summer 1	Friday 1st May
Wk 3 Tuesday 5th May	Summer 2	Friday 8th May
Wk 4 Monday 11th May	Summer 3	Friday 15th May
Wk 5 Monday 18th May	Summer 4	Thursday 21st May