Welcome to our Year 5 class page!

We are excited to share our learning journey with you. This is where you will find updates about our projects, celebrations of achievements and photographs of all the fun and discovery happening in our classroom. 

Teachers: Miss Doyle and Mr. Stevenson.

Learning Support Assistants: Miss Hughes and Miss Williams.

Below you will find lots of information about our class. This will include information on the Year 5 curriculum, our school schemes, reading book days, PE days, homework and water bottles. We will update the website regularly and notify you of any important dates for your diary. Information about lessons and current work will also be provided through Class Dojo.

Anything that you wish to share or talk about, please message us on Class Dojo. We endeavour to regularly check all messages and we will reply as soon as we can. Any absences should be phoned through to the school office.

We are here for your children, and we will always listen.

Book bags/Reading books

Reading books will be changed regularly. Please send your child's book bag/reading book to school with them as often as possible.  We encourage that you ask your child questions about their book and that you encourage your child to ask their own questions. It is important to develop comprehension skills, as it supports your child with reading and writing. We encourage you to visit our amazing local library to expand your child’s knowledge and love of books.

The Spelling Shed, Maths Shed and TT Rockstars

Your child has been sent home with password cards. This will enable them to log onto the spelling shed, maths shed and TT Rockstars. We will set a variety of fun activities on this site for you to share at home with your child.

PE

Our PE day this year is Thursday this half term. Please ensure that your child comes to school in their PE kit on Thursdays. 

The school PE kit is available from Lazer School Wear, St Mary's Road in Garston. This is a red

t-shirt with the school badge and blue school shorts. However, your child can wear a plain red t-shirt and dark blue shorts that are available from most supermarkets. The children can wear any training shoes for PE.

This is part of our school uniform and must be worn for PE lessons.

Football kit and other sportswear will not be allowed.

Swimming

Year 5 will be swimming in the Spring term. This will START on Wednesday 7th January and FINISH on Wednesday 18th March. 

Water Bottles

There are studies to say, that drinking water and being well hydrated, improves the mood, memory, and attention in children. We would ask that you send in a water bottle for your child each day. We request that your child brings in water only and not juice or fizzy drinks. The children will have access to their water throughout the day.

Religious Education

The two topics we will be learning this half term will be Judaism and Hope - Advent.

P.S.H.E

We will be looking at the topic of 'Changes in Friendship' during our Personal, Social and Health Education sessions this half term.

English

This term year 5 are reading a text called 'FaRther'. We will be immersing ourselves in the book, analysing it then writing a setting description for our fiction unit, and a letter for our non-fiction writing piece. 

 Mathematics

Last term, before starting our place value unit, year 5 completed a week of inspirational maths challenges. It was important that we started our year 5 maths journey with a positive attitude. These challenges encouraged us to reason mathematically whilst solving problems as well as being interesting, fun, engaging, inclusive and stimulating. The children really enjoyed the week of inspirational maths challenges and it certainly helped with a ‘I can do maths’ attitude!

 This term year 5 will be completing our multiplication and division unit. We are looking forward to see what the children can achieve!

Science

Our Science this half term is linked to our English. The topic is: Earth, Moon and Sun. We will be looking at the solar system, phases of the moon, shadows and the sun during different times of the day. We will also research a famous scientist who has contributed to this area.

History

Year 5 will be studying The Anglo Saxons this term. Keep an eye out for our fantastic work later in the term!

Geography

This term in Geography we will be learning about oceans. Look out for information and examples of work later in the term.

Art and Design

Our first art project will involve looking at DRAWING and PHOTOGRAPHY using Degas as an initial influence. 

Edgar Degas painted ballerinas. He was fascinated with how they moved and tried to capture this in his work.

We looked at images showing different kinds of dancing such as Street Dance. We studied the shapes and movement that these street dancers manage to create with their bodies.

One way of depicting movement in a still picture is to use repeated images. This gives the illusion of the person moving across the page. We used different art medium to create these images.

Design Technology

Our topic for D.T this term is Celebrating Culture and Seasonality. 

Physical Education

This term in P.E we will be learning Dance, specifically The Charleston.

Latin

The children will continue with their Latin lessons this year, building on their skills and knowledge from Year 4.