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Year 5 - Willow
Welcome to Year 5 Willow
Mr Whitehead
Teaching Assistant - Mrs Payne (AM)
Welcome
We hope you've had a good week away from school - the children certainly deserved a rest after lots of hard work last half term and it was wonderful to be able to share this during Parents' Evening.
We've got lots of exciting things to look forward to this half term!
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
Mondays 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 Autumn 2
English
Room 13 by Robert Swindells
The children will learn about how figurative language can be used effectively to create imagery in creative writing before writing their own spooky stories full of suspense and tension. They will then be writing persuasive advertisements - would you stay in a haunted hotel?
Flight for Freedom by Kristen Fulton
Children will learn about the incredible journey of the Wetzel family who escaped from behind the Berlin Wall in a hot air balloon! They will will be writing an emotive diary entry and a newspaper article.
The Vikings!
Alongside our history topic, children will enjoy this non-fiction book and create a non-chronological report about the Vikings and write their own Viking God myths.
Maths
Arithmetic and times tables
Multiplication and Division
Fractions
RE
Baptism, Confirmation - Belonging
Focus on Judaism in our Multi-Faith Week
During Advent we focus on how Jesus was sent as God's representative
Science
Animals Including Humans
Describe the changes as humans develop to old age
History
We will be continuing to learn about the Anglo Saxons and moving on to learn about the Viking invasion of Britain.
Computing
Computing Systems and Networks
Creating Media - Video Production
PE
Basketball
Games
PHSE:
Healthy Lifestyles
How can we stop the spread of infection?
Why is it important to know about the nutritional content of food?
Spanish
The way we look
D&T
Cooking and Nutrition - what could be healthier?
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