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.  On Thursdays, the children will be working with the PE coaches.

What will your child be learning?

SPRING TERM

This term in English we will be looking at the texts 'The Hound of the Baskervilles' by Arthur Conan Doyle and‘The Promise' by Nicola Davies.  We will be exploring the text through discussion, drama and writing.  We will be producing Cliffhanger Narrative,  Setting Description and a persuasive letter.   Mrs Simon will also be reading some stories to us.

In Maths we will be looking at the relationship between fractions, decimals and percentages.  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 Materials.  In this unit, we look at the properties of different materials.  We will learn about thermal insulators and soluble and insoluble materials.  We will look at how to seperate mixtues of materials using sieving, decanting, filtering and magnets.  We will be carrying out lots of experiments weekly.

Our Humanities theme includes ‘Victorians'.  We will be finding out about life in Victorian times for children.  We will be comparing similarities and differences with our lives now adays and how Victorians changed the world we live in.  We will be looking at the Census to gather information.

In RE we will be learning about women from the Old Testament and the difficult decisions they had to make.  We discuss qualities which make you a strong person and choices you make..  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 move on to look at  the Easter Story.

In Art, we will be using our inspiration from our Victorians topic to recreate drawings of still life house plants.  We will be looking at outlines and line.  We will then be creating sculptures using egg boxes to create animal heads.

Thank you for all your support.

The Year 5 team - Mrs Simon, Miss Hutch 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   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