Year 5
Year 5
Summer 1, 2025!
Welcome back! We hope you are ready for lots of learning and fun this half term in Year 5.
Start time – 8:40am Pick-up time- 3:15pm
If you have any questions, concerns or worries, please contact us at year5@cpa.dsat.education and we will do our best to respond as soon as we can.
Please ensure that your child brings a labelled water bottle to school each day as well as ensuring that all items of your child's uniform is clearly labelled too.
Maths Calculations Parents' Guidance
English Information- Year 5 and 6
We are continuing to deliver the program to all year groups at school called myHappymind. myHappymind is all based around helping children to understand how their brain works and to support them in developing positive skills and habits to be their very best selves!
Please click on the link below to access an overview of what the program entails.
myHappymind Parent Information
At the end of every myHappy mind session, we finish with our Let Your Light Shine prayer which you can find below.
Curriculum
Our History theme this half term is the Ancient Greeks. "What influence has the Ancient Greeks have on our life today?'‘
Our theme this half-term will focus on developing our historical knowledge, skills and vocabulary. Throughout our study, we will learn about life in ancient Greece as well as gaining an understanding of where and when some key events during the ancient Greek period took place. They will explore what is meant by the terms ‘trade’, ‘civilisation’ and ‘empire’ and explore the differences between life in ancient Athens and ancient Sparta. We will learn how to use historical sources to understand how past events have helped to shape the world that we know today.
Writing
Our writing this half term will be based on the book The Paperbag Prince by Colin Thompson.
The Paperbag Prince is an old man living in a railway carriage on a rubbish dump. But he knows that even rubbish can sometimes contain treasure, and that if he stays long enough, gentle nature will heal the countryside and make the green come again.
The Paperbag Prince is a charming picture book, beautifully written and illustrated by Colin Thompson. The main character determinedly recycles and reuses other people’s discarded items from all across his land, in order to save and repair it throughout the years of it being used as a dump. It is only when the council finally leaves and hands him his land back that the land is able to heal and recover after years of damage. A beautiful book with a beautiful message about sustainability and the impact even one person can have when they are determined.
In response to the book, we will engage in a variety of writing opportunities, including writing a persuasive leaflet to give information about waste management.
Reading
This half term, reading will focused on Pollution: a look behind the scenes. As part of this unit we will be making predictions about the text from details stated and implied. We will explore the meaning of words and clarifying vocabulary in the text. We will ask and answer our own questions about the text, and make inferences from what we have read.
Maths
This half term we will be converting units of measures including units of time, length and mass as well as securing our calculations with whole numbers and decimals.
This half term we will also be focusing on knowing and remembering our Key Instant Recall Facts (KIRFs) for Summer. Please click on the links below for Year 5 Summer KIRFs that will support your child calculating with square numbers and their square roots. The online games, HIT THE BUTTON and DAILY TEN, will also support your child with this.
If you have any questions about these areas of Maths please don’t hesitate to come and speak to us.
R.E.
In RE, we will study Hinduism and explore the question "Do beliefs in Karma, Samsara and Moksha help Hindus lead good lives?" This will help us to understand the impact of certain beliefs on a Hindu’s life.
Science - Separating Mixtures and Changing Materials
Our science theme this half term is Separating mixtures and changing materials. In this module, we will:
● that some materials dissolve in liquid to form a solution, and describe how to recover a substance from a solution
● to use knowledge of solids, liquids, and gases to decide how mixtures might be separated, including through filtering, sieving and evaporating
● to demonstrate that dissolving, mixing and changes of state are reversible changes
● to explain that some changes result in the formation of new materials and that this kind of change is not usually reversible, including changes associated with burning and the action of acid on bicarbonate of soda.
We will develop our scientific skills by:
● planning different types of scientific enquiries to answer questions, including recognising, and controlling variables, where necessary.
● using test results to make predictions to set up further comparative and fair tests.
● learn to use apparatus and techniques, such as filtering, sieving and evaporating, to separate materials.
● reporting and presenting findings from enquiries, including conclusions, causal relationships, and explanations of and degree of trust in results, in oral and written forms such as displays and other presentations.
Art and Design - Textiles (Batik)
In this study, we build on our knowledge of textiles and develop our use of applique as well as running stitch and overstitch. We will further develop our use of dye, as well develop our use of batik, and understand how more complex stiches and use of embellishments adds depth to our textile work. We will use the creative ideas of Pacita Abad, Rebecca Greenwood, Siobhan Healy and Mairead Burke as inspiration to produce our work.
P.E. - Athletics
In PE, our focus is Athletics. In our learning, we will explore focus on developing fundamental skills in running, jumping, and throwing. We will understand when to vary our pace and direction while running, jump for height and distance, and throw for accuracy, as well as developing our skills of teamwork and cooperation.
Our PE day is Tuesday. Please ensure that your child comes to school in the correct P.E kit and brings their school uniform to change into after their lesson. If your child wears earrings, these must be removed or provide tape to cover them. Ensure long hair is tied back away from the face.
P.S.H.E. - Engage/ Economic Education
The Engage module is focused on teaching children the following:
What goal setting is
Why goals are important
How to review our goals
We will also focus on the theme of Economic Education. We will recognise how money is used in the wider world. We will discuss what a financial risk is, why people may take risks with money and some consequences of this. We will explore the real value of products by being critical consumers and also consider influences that advertisers try to use to encourage people to spend money.
Computing – Creating media - stop motion
In our computing lessons this half term, we will learn about Creating media – stop motion. In this module, we will be able to:
- Create a toy with simple images and a single movement.
- Create a short stop motion with small changes between images.
- Think of a simple story idea for their animation and then decompose it into smaller parts to create a storyboard with simple characters.
- Make small changes to the models to ensure a smooth animation and delete unnecessary frames.
French - Les Jeux Olympiques (The Olympics)
In this unit the children will learn how to:
- Tell somebody in French the key facts of the history of the Olympics.
- Tell somebody in French the key facts of the modern Olympic games.
- Look for cognates and highlight key words when learning how to decode longer text in gist listening and reading in French.
- Say the nouns in French for key sports in the current Olympic games.
- Conjugate the irregular verb FAIRE enabling the students to say what sports they play and what sports they do not play.
- Understand the concept of de la, de l’ and du when you say you play a sport in French.
Music
Our musical theme is Freedom to improvise. Improvisation gives you the freedom to express yourself, to really go for it!
An ‘interval’ in music refers to the distance between two pitches. Some notes lie right next to each other (stepping motion) while other notes lie further apart (skipping motion).
TTRockstars– Every day 10 minutes
Times Tables Rock Stars (TTRS) is a program designed to help children learn and memorise multiplication and division facts. It uses a gamified approach, incorporating a rock and roll theme to make practice fun and engaging. In order to get the best out of TTRS children should regularly play for short bursts of time over the week.
If you have misplaced your log in details or are having trouble accessing the website, please email me to let us know.
READING – Every day 10 minutes
Please continue to enjoy your reading each day. Reading is fun and a great way to spend time together with your family, as well as developing our imaginations. Encourage your child to talk about what they have read and ask them a question or two about the book. This will help consolidate their comprehension work in school. Adults please remember to record what your child reads at home in their reading record. We will count all entries in the reading diaries weekly and award golden tickets to those who have read 20 times or more in a month.
Our book change day is Thursday.
Homework
Maths- Given out every Thursday to be handed in by the following Thursday.
If you have any questions, worries or concerns please contact me using the class email: year5@cpa.dsat.education
Thank you.
Mrs Milnes & Mrs Wilkinson