St Anne CofE Primary School

St Annes

Year 5

Welcome to the Autumn Term in Year 5 

I hope you had a lovely summer break. I am delighted to be the year 5 teacher for my 3rd year at St Anne’s Primary. My name is Miss Steadman and I will be the class teacher this year. I am delighted to be joined by Mrs Parry, Mrs Foster and Miss Banks, who the children all know very well.

I am looking forward to getting to know the Year 5 class over the year and make sure that we instil a love of learning in the classroom. I want all the children to know that it is ok to be worried and to make mistakes, as we can all help one another in the class to learn and improve every day.

Please find below some information about the Autumn term in our class that you may find useful. If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to get in touch. My email address is s.steadman386@st-annes-pri.durham.sch.uk

  • This term, our PE slots are Monday and Tuesday. Please can you ensure that the children come to school in the correct PE kit on those days.
  • Homework will be set on a Friday and to be retuned by the following Thursday.
  • Please can you make sure your child is reading everyday for at least 10 minutes, which needs to be logged in the reading record.
  • Practise of spellings ready for a spelling test on Thursday/Friday.
  • Times tables. Although the children took part in the MTC last year, the children still need to know their times tables, so practise on TTRS daily for 5 minutes would be fantastic.
  • Visits/Trips: St Anne’s Church and an Anglo-Saxon day.
  • Any sports festivals/leagues/competitions dates to follow.

Hopefully we can get some school trips booked soon.

This term we will be learning about:

English We will base out English/writing on books this year.

We will start off the year by looking at nouns and adjectives. This will turn into creating descriptive sentences. The children will also do lots of work on how to use thesaurus and dictionaries.

The children’s writing will be based on books this year. Our first book is Robot Girl. The children will be looking at AI and how it has changed throughout the years. By the end of the half term, the children will write their own robot AI stories.

The second book that the children will look at is Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief. They will continue their learning from Year 4 about Greek Gods and the children will create their own non chronological text about the gods.
SPaG SPaG stands for Spelling, Punctuation and Grammar. The children will start off by looking at different types of nouns, adverbs, tense and apostrophes. As the term passes on, the children will look at expanding their nouns and adjectives to create more exciting sentences.
Maths Our maths this term is all about place value. In year 5 we learn numbers up to 1,000,000. We will also be learning about addition and subtraction and how to use formal methods. Multiplication and division will also be taught, looking at multiples, factors, prime numbers and square numbers.
Science Our Science topic this term is learning all about mixtures and separation. This will include exploring different types of mixtures and the appropriate methods to separate them. Lots of experiments will take place in lessons.
PE Football and handball. Mrs Laidler will teach one of these on a Tuesday.
Art Introducing updates to our drawing units:

·         Use various types of lines to emphasise emotion or draw attention

·         Describe how artists have shown emotion

·         Use colour and line to convey emotion or movement in their sketch

·         Design a print, considering the composition carefully.

·         Use a combination of marks to create tone and depth.

·         Describe how artists use tone to show depth in their artwork.

·         Create an effective printing plate.

·         Reflect and improve sketchbook experiments and final work.
DT Pop Up Books

·         Produce a suitable plan for each page of their book

·         Produce the structure of the book.

·         Assemble the components necessary for all their structures/mechanisms.

·         Hide the mechanical elements with more layers using spacers where needed.

·         Use a range of mechanisms and structures to illustrate their story and make it interactive for the users

·         Use appropriate materials and captions to illustrate the story.
History The history is all about What Happened After the Romans left? We will be learning about the Anglo Saxons.

·         Timeline work

·         Who were the Anglo Saxons and why did they settle?

·         What can we learn about the Anglo-Saxons from the Sutton Hoo ship burials?

·         How significant was the Staffordshire Hoard in telling us about the Anglo-Saxons?

·         How useful is written evidence in finding out about the Anglo-Saxons?

·         Was the Anglo-Saxon period a “Dark Age”?
Geography No Geography this term
Music Mrs Laidler will be teaching Music this year. The children will be learning how to appraise different songs.
RE RE is all about Judaism and why Moses is important to the Jewish people?

·         How was Moses?

·         What was the significance of the Burning Bush?

·         How did Moses lead the Israelites?

·         What happened to Mount Sinai?

·         How do Jewish people use the Ten Commandments?
Spanish (KS2) We are going to be learning about different animals in Spanish and creating mini stories.
Computing Is all about being safe on computers and online.

 

Further information about the curriculum content can be found on our school website.

If you have any questions or queries about year 5, please don’t hesitate to message me.

In Year 5, we will work together as a class to create a positive, safe learning environment, where the children can be the best to reach their full potential.

I am so excited to start the year!

Yours Sincerely

Miss Steadman

 

 

 

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