Week beginning 27th January 2025

Well done Year 5s, we are halfway into the term, and you all have been amazing at your learning. We are looking forward to our Winchester trip this week because it will consolidate all that we've been learning in class.

Our project for this half-term is "Earth and Space".

Important dates and messages:

• Monday 27th January - Winchester Science Museum trip.

As part of our Earth and Space project, we have organised a trip to the Winchester Science Museum to reinforce children's learning of this topic. Letters have been sent home regarding this. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact us.

 

Worship theme:

Memories/Remembering – Holocaust Memorial Day 27th January

 

Curriculum:

We will continue with our opening doors curriculum in English, which uses rich texts to encourage fantastic writing. This will focus on space descriptive writing linked to fact writing, which will build into us creating our very own non-chronological report all about space. 

This week in maths, we will be continuing with our multiplication unit, building up to multiplying larger numbers (3 digits by 2 digits and 4 digits by 2 digits).

In Destination Reader, we will continue with our book for the term, focusing on different reading and comprehension skills.

In RE, we will continue the Buddhism unit by exploring noble truths.

We will continue to look at pointillism in art and will be using our lesson this week, to create a foreground using water colour.

In science, we will learn about the movement of the moon.

In Geography, we will be learning that the Earth orbits the sun and the sun appears to move across the sky. One of our key questions is - why do some countries turn their clocks forwards and backwards by an hour during the year?​ 

 

Other news:

• PPA Days - PPA Days will be every other Thursday, and children should come in wearing PE kits.

• PE every Thursday - Children should wear their PE kits every Thursday.

Homework:

• Please find links to the relevant information below for the Project Overview and Homework.
• MyMaths - we will set up MyMaths tasks termly, based on the learning we will be doing this term. Please let us know if you are finding them too easy or tricky, and remember that below, there are many resources you can use to extend your learning from home. Various MyMaths activities have been set for this term. This is to allow children who like to do more, to be able to. However, children do not have to complete all MyMaths activities. One per week is our minimum recommendation. 
• Reading books - we would like to remind everyone to have a reading book in school - this can be a school or home book. We want all children to be able to share recommendations and reviews of what we have read recently. We are displaying books we've read in the classroom to get children talking about the stories they love and inspire others to try new titles.
• Reading records - All children should now have a grey reading record in which they can record how often they are reading. They will receive one raffle ticket if they read three times a week and two if they read more than five. At the end of each term, we will draw a raffle to win a trip to Costa. You have to be in it to win it! Activities in the reading records can be completed at home for fun! 

 

Reading:

We are reading 'The Jamie Drake Equation' by Christopher Edge and using the following Designation Reader sentence stems to start our answers this term. We focus on different skills in each lesson: inferring, predicting, asking questions, evaluating, clarifying, summarising, and making connections. 

        

 

 

Spellings:

Our spellings for this term are below. However, we are moving away from weekly tests using more discreet learning techniques and applying the use of our spelling words across our curriculum. 

 

Best wishes,

Year 5 Team

Miss Martin and Mrs Fakorede

Learning as a family in Jesus, through Love, Hope, and Forgiveness.

Matthew 19:26 “With God all things are possible.”