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Year 5 - Willow
Welcome to Year 5 Willow
Mr Whitehead
Teaching Assistant - Mrs Payne (AM)
Welcome
We hope you and your families have enjoyed a lovely Easter break. We have a great summer term ahead of us and our first value is 'joy'. Please see below for curriculum information.
Please don't forget that Twitter is updated regularly, so you'll see lots of learning and experiences taking place on there. Remember, Mr Whitehead can be contacted on info@stjohnsrc.net.
Year 5 What are we learning this year?
Key Information
PE - change for this half term, PE has moved from Monday to Wednesday.
Wednesdays and Thursdays.
This year, children are to come into school in full school uniform and get changed into their PE kits on their PE days. Please bring full PE kits into school on these days.
Reading Books
We encourage children to read for at least 30 minutes every day. We would appreciate your support in helping them to find some time every day to enjoy a book.
Children will be given a book band reading book and a 'reading for pleasure' book to take home. There will be an opportunity to change these books every Friday.
Homework
Please login into Atom Prime each week: https://atomlearning.com/prime
English and maths will be added every Thursday.
The spellings for this year are below. Children will have spelling lessons in class and activities and quizzes throughout the week. Weekly spellings will be written in purple spelling books and these are to be brought into school each day. We would appreciate your support in reminding children to practice these words at home.
Curriculum for Spring 2
English
COMING TO ENGLAND - Informal letter, Formal letter and a factfile
EXTENDED METAPHOR POEMS
Maths
Shape
Position and direction
RE
Transformation Celebration of the Spirit’s transforming power
Freedom & responsibility Commandments enable Christians to be free & responsible
Science
Properties and changes of materials
History
The Maya
Computing
Introduction to vector graphics
PE
Dance
Athletics
PHSE:
Living in the wider world
Spanish
In the Classroom
Art
Darwin’s Dragons
Sculpture, modelling, sketching, watercolour, acrylic paints
Artist: Darrell Wakelam
Physical Education
It's advisable to bring your PE kit into school and leave it on your peg. However, you will be changing into PE kit on the following days (and not coming into school with it on):
- Monday
- Thursday