Year 5 | Cranborne Primary School

FABULOUS YEAR 5!

Welcome to Year 5's class page.

Here you will find information about our fantastic learning, experiences, class information and any other news.

Class email details:

5C:

Mrs Christoforou: rchristoforou@cranborne.herts.sch.uk

Mrs Fleming: vbailey@cranborne.herts.sch.uk

5H:

Miss Hughes: shughes53@cranborne.herts.sch.uk

Mrs Antoniou: antonioue@cranborne.herts.sch.uk

Welcome to the Summer Term 2024-25

Dear Year 5 families, carers and children,

Welcome to the third, and final, year of Year 5! We can not believe how quickly the time has gone, and we are so proud of the progress that the children have made.

Please find below some information about our learning that is planned for this term as well as some dates and documents that may be helpful. You can also find some suggestions (near the bottom of the page) for home learning if the school is closed or your child is unable to come to school, but feeling well enough:

Key Dates for summer term

Tuesday 22nd April - INSET DAY and parent-teacher consultations

Wednesday 23rd April - First day back for all children

Monday 5th May - BANK HOLIDAY

Monday 12th - Friday 16th May - Year 6 SATs week

Monday 26th - Friday 30th May - Half Term

Thursday 12th June - Year 5 trip to STEM Centre, Stevenage

Tuesday 17th June - Sports Day

Tuesday 24th June - Exhibition Evening

Tuesday 8th July - Summer concert

Thursday 10th July - Transition day

Tuesday 22nd July - End of this school year. Finish @ 1:15pm

um Trip
Thursday 6th February Year 1 History of Toys Day
Tuesday 11th February Year 3 Epping Forest Field Studies Day
MONDAY 17TH TO FRIDAY
21ST FEBRUARY
HALF TERM HOLIDAY – SCHOOL CLOSED
MONDAY 24TH FEBRUARY INSET DAY 3 – NO CHILDREN PLEASE

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Maths:

In Maths, we will revise and practise all of the maths skills that you have gained so far at school. We will also be extending your understanding and focusing on the following areas of learning:

Multiplication and division
Solving problems - fractions
Fractions, decimals and percentages
Data handling
2d and 3d shape
Statistics
Roman numerals

At home, please continue to make regular use of Mathletics, Times Tables Rockstars and Purple Mash. Most days will begin with a Maths 'Early Morning Work' session.

Keep practising fast recall of the times tables as you will need to apply these in many areas of mathematics.

Physical Education:

This term, PE will be on Mondays and Fridays.

The PE foci for the summer term will be athletics, cricket, rounders and fitness

We will be outdoor for as many sessions as possible this term.

PE will be taught by Mr Roberts on a Friday afternoon.

Please ensure that children wear the required PE kit to school on these days, long hair is tied back and that earrings are removed.

Religious Education:

Our key question that will drive our learning this term:

Big Question -

How did Buddha teach his followers to find enlightenment?

How to help at home:

Use Pobble 365 website to practise creative writing
Practise times tables using Times Tables Rockstars
Reading together and asking what has happened so far
Discussing new vocabulary
Reading a range of genres: letters that come through the post, news articles
Practise your spellings by writing words in different colours or making a nice poster with tricky words on
Ask your child to explain the maths concept we have been learning this week
Baking – practise measuring and converting grams/kilograms
Telling the time

Oxford owl:

For extra spelling resources and ebooks please follow this link:

https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/

Username: cranborne

Password: school 1

English:

In the Summer term, our key texts will be The Highwayman, Coming to England and The Viewer. More details can be found in our curriculum overview below.

Please avoid reading the books with your children in advance, as this can spoil the excitement and intrigue!

Each book sequence involves reading, text analysis, vocabulary investigations, key grammatical skills, drafting, writing and publishing. We usually spend between 3-4 weeks on each text.

As writing was the area of learning most affected during the periods of home learning, it continues to be a school priority. In class, we will be focusing on spelling, punctuation and grammar - not just during English lessons, but across the curriculum.

In addition to the daily English lessons, there are regular comprehension, spelling and grammar lessons.

Please make sure that the key spellings (sent home at information evening) are practised well and displayed somewhere at home.

Below is the Year 5 assessment framework which is used to help level children's writing abilities. By the end of year 5, we expect children to be working at the 'expected standard' and this means that all of the criteria in the first two sections must be consistently demonstrated by your children.

Art, Design Technology and computing:

In Art, we will be creating pieces of art, using fine detail as well as creating some 3D sculptures.

We will be drawing and sculpting different eyes - human and 'dragon'. In our sketching, we will be learning to use pencil techniques to create pattern and shading. In sculpture, we will be joining and imprinting shapes in salt dough to create scale effects.

Computing: The learning in computing will cover the units of Word Processing and Coding. Children will understand how computing can help us with work and experience using these programs.

They will have the opportunity to use the Chromebooks to create documents in a cross-curricular way.

DT - Following the construction of our fantastic wooden photo frames, we will be creating moving toys using CAM Mechanisms.

The children will investigate how CAMs are used to create different kinds of movement, before designing and creating their own mechanism.

Spellings:

We will teach spelling patterns/rules weekly and children will practise these in class.

Attached is the National Curriculum Statutory Spellings for years 3/4 and year 5/6.

Please note the children should be mainly secure with the Year 3/4 spellings and working towards the Year 5/6 words.

Science:

In Science this term, we will be learning about 'Earth and Space' and 'Animals, including humans'.

The Earth and Space learning will include:

- to describe the movement of the Earth, and other planets, relative to the Sun in the solar system

- to describe the movement of the Moon relative to the Earth

This understanding will be enhanced by out trip to the STEM centre in June.

The Animals, including humans topic covers how humans age and develop during their lives. It encoroporates the SRE learning about changes during puberty and how conception happens.

Geography and History:

During the first part of this term, we will be continuing to learn about The Americas. We will focus on the continent of South America. Our learning will require us to:

• Use a globe and an atlas to identify and label a map of the following: continents, countries, Tropics of Cancer/Capricorn, Arctic and Antarctic circles.

• Locate and name some of the countries, cities and key features

• Identify why settlements are different across North and South America (Human geography)

• Explain climate zones

• Understand time zones

• Describe some of the differing landscapes

•Focus on the physical geography, including: climate zones, biomes and vegetation belts, rivers, mountains, volcanoes and earthquakes, and the water cycle

•Identify geographical similarities and differences through the study of human and physical geography of a region of the United Kingdom and a region within North or South America.

In History, we will be learning about the Viking and Anglo-Saxon sruggle for the kingdom of England. We will look at evidence about the Viking invasions and why they decided to settle here.

We will find out about Danelaw and will finish in 1066 with William the Conqueror. (This is the point where the Secondary School History curriculum begins)

Music:

In the summer term, there will be some more lessons with Mark, the guitar specialist, for those who have chosen to continue the sessions.

In class, we will be singing and using the Charanga scheme to investigate a range of styles of music, and the instruments used.

Year 5 Curriculum Overview

Year 5 Curriculum Overview:

Home learning for self-isolation, school closure or working from home:

In the event of your child being unwell or your child needing to work at home, please see below some activities that your child could complete if well enough to do so.

If you need any help or support when working from home then please email your class teacher

Thank you

Geography - The Americas

Carry out some research about one of the countries in North or South america and prepare a presentation for the class

You could include things like: