Welcome to the St Matthew's Primary School Year 5 Class Page

Together, we work hard and try our best.  We work hard to improve our work in all areas and nurture our own learning and that of our classmates through collaborative and group work.  We love all of the curriculum but some of our favourite subjects are Maths, Science, Art and PE.

PE

Our PE days are Tuesday and Thursday  On Tuesday the PE session is swimming so we will be walking to Grand Central Pools.  Thurssday the children will be working with the PE coaches.

What will your child be learning?

This term in English we will be looking at the texts 'When we Walked on the Moon' by David Long and‘FArTHER' by Anthony Browne.  We will be exploring the text through discussion, drama and writing.  We will be producing Mission Log, Exploration Narrative, Setting Narrative and a letter.   Mrs Simon will also be reading some stories to us.

In Maths we will be looking at place value and the four operations, using numbers up to 1 million.  This will lead onto some more formal calculations.    The children all have a log in for TTRockstars and can access this at home at www.ttrockstars.com  We will be completing daily Times table practice to improve our fluency and automaticity.

In Science, we will be looking at the topic of Earth and Space and the 'Forces'.  In this unit, we discover about the Earth and the Solar System it belongs to.  We will learn the names of the planets and the phases of the moon.  We will know that the planaets orbit the Sun and the moon orbits the Earth.  We will also be looking at Air Resistance, Water Resistance, Gravyity, and how levers, pulleys and gears help us in the every day world.

Our Humanities theme includes ‘Rivers'  We will be finding out about how Rivers are formed and the different parts of a river's course.  We will also look at some of the major rivers in the world.

In RE we will be learning about Pilgrimages and how our life is a journey.  We will be going on a pilgrimage to Chester Cathedral ourselves, discovering how people in the past made this journey for their faith.  We will compare pilgrimages from different faiths, particularly focussing on the Hajj, Christian and Hindu pilgrimages.  We will move on to look at Incarnation and the Christmas Story.

In Art, we will be using our inspiration from our Space topic to recreate our own versions of Van Gogh's Starry night.

We will also be completing our resdential this term and will be going to Castleton.  More information about this will follow.

Thank you for all your support.

The Year 5 team - Mrs Simon, Miss Hutch, Mrs Harper and Miss Worgan

To support maths learning at home please visit the following sites:

Great website for times tables.  Children can compete against themselves, others and even the teachers (Mrs Beecher's Rockstar name is Gigi Twig for those that fancy challenging her!)  Children have their individual login  http://www.ttrockstars.com 

Lots of different games in all topics of maths  http://www.topmarks.co.uk/search.aspx?subject=16&agegroup=3

Questions targeted around year 5 targets. 1 day = 8 questions, answers and video tutorials included  http://myminimaths.co.uk/year-5-mini-maths/

5 questions a day, differing levels of ability  http://corbettmathsprimary.com/5-a-day/

A variety of questions split into different maths topics all targeting year 5 objectives  http://uk.ixl.com/math/year-5

Lots of reasoning and problem solving activities to get your brain thinking  http://nrich.maths.org/14536

To support literacy learning at home please visit the following sites:

A variety of questions, split into different literacy topics all targeting year 5 objectives  http://uk.ixl.com/ela/year-5

A large bank of pictures to inspire creative writing  http://www.onceuponapicture.co.uk

A large collection of videos, images and ideas to inspire creative writing  http://www. literacyshed.com/home.html