Year 5

Top tips for Year 5

Welcome to Year 5, we have an exciting half term ahead and a full curriculum of activities planned.  Our main ‘Quests’ this half term will be History, Science and The Arts.  The children will be given many opportunities to further develop their knowledge and gain a better understanding of these areas of learning. Within the ‘Quests’ there may be workshops, key visitors to school and planned trips to places of interest.

During the ‘Quests’ we will be reading many engaging texts both in our ‘Quest’ lessons and for enjoyment, as a class read. We hope these texts will ignite imaginations and support our discussions around vocabulary choices and sentence structure. In our Writing lessons, we aim to building on learning from the previous term and begin to develop new writing skills with a focus on developing our confidence when writing for purpose.  Reading sessions will develop our skills of inference, retrieving information and using the evidence from a text to justify responses and understanding.

In Maths, we will be focusing on place value and numbers to 1 million, before moving on to addition and subtraction, using our knowledge to support formal written calculation methods.

PE: Year 5 will have PE on a Tuesday. The children should come into school with their PE kit on and school jumper. If the weather is cold, children can also bring in an additional jumper or hoodie for outdoor activities. Please ensure that you have suitable footwear for indoor and outdoor activities.

Home learning:

Home learning will include, weekly spellings, Times Table Rockstars, Numbots and reading.  Spelling lists can be found in the ‘Useful Information’ section on the right.  Reading at home should be recorded in reading records and brought into school daily.

If you need to contact your class teacher, please email year5team@uptonheath.cheshire.sch.uk.