The Year 5 team:

Ms le Couteur (5L)

Mrs Kay & Mrs Chappell (5KC)

Mrs Lund and Mr H Johnson (Learning Assistants)

Curriculum:

This term we will begin our topic: ‘Half the World Away?’ which is a geographical study of the continent of North America.  This topic will be host to lots of map work and investigating and comparing locations in North America to those in the UK.  We will also be exploring Space in our Science work and linking this with our Art to create spectacular display work.

English:

This term we will begin with a focus on The Wizard of Oz which allows for exploration of descriptive writing to create vivid imagery for a reader. 

In reading, we will be studying the novel Holes by Louis Sachar as this is also set in North America.  The children will be focusing on retrieval skills to begin with: finding key information from a text and copying the evidence to support the answer. Then, we will be exploring different techniques on how to answer more complicated inference questions.

Maths:

We will continue to explore the Year 5 AREs with a focus on many different place value and aritihmetic skils. We will look at the value of numbers and how to work out what each digit means in a number. The children will also be rounding numbers, ordering and comparing them. We aim to make Maths varied and active; we use games to practise concepts and the children love grappling with tricky concepts through their Maths Cats puzzles!

P.E:

Tuesday: Swimming

Thursday: Invasion Games (outdoor)

We will post about our learning on Class Dojo, so keep an eye out on there to see what we are up to. Please feel free to message us there, too. If you have any questions or concerns, we are always on the ramp before and after school for a chat.

AT ETCHELLS WE HAVE 5 BEE RULES