Year 5
Welcome to Year 5
The Year 5 team
Summer term 2022
Dates for diaries
Monday 25th April – Return to school
Thursday 27th – Young Shakespeare Company
Monday 2nd May – Bank Holiday – school closed
Friday 6th May – Rainforest Roadshow
Monday 23rd May – Sports morning
Friday 27th May – Break up for half term
Monday 6th June – Return to school
Friday 24th June – Founders Day (closed to pupils)
Thursday 30th June – Class photos
Wednesday 20th July – Break up for summer holidays
Visits and visitors
This term in English we will be looking at the works of William Shakespeare. We are excited to welcome into school The Young Shakespeare Company, who will be performing a Midsummers Night’s Dream.
To support our Geography project about South America, Year 5 will have a visit from The Rainforest Roadshow where we look at artefacts and hear about life in the rainforest. This will teach the children more about South America, Brazil and the rainforest.
English Power of Reading texts (Summer 1):
Writing to entertain: wedding invitation (linked to Midsummers Nights Dream) setting description (linked to Midsummers Nights Dream) Writing to inform: non-chronological report Writing to express: poetry (description of the journey on the HMS Beagle)
Power of Reading text (Summer 2):
Writing to entertain: narrative Writing to inform: explanatory text Writing to express: poetry Writing to influence: letter writing
Our spelling focus for this term will be consolidating those Y5/6 Common Exception spellings, whilst the punctuation and grammar for this term includes:
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Using adverbs and modals verbs to indicate degrees of possibility
Maths Decimals – adding, subtracting, multiplying and dividing decimals Geometry – measuring and drawing angles, identifying regular and irregular polygons, Position direction – symmetry, reflection, coordinates on quadrants Measure -- converting units including metric and imperial |
Science | Life Cycles Plants |
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History | Old World, New World: a comparative study of Anglo-Saxon and Mayan civilisations | ||
Geography | Brazil and the Rainforest | ||
Music | Motown | Reflect, rewind and replay | |
Art | Rousseau | ||
DT | Food – making Salsa | ||
PE | Athletics | Outdoor Adventurous Activities | |
Computing | Game Creator | 3D Modelling | |
RE | Multi-faith customs | ||
PSHE | Relationships | Changing Me | |
Spring term 2022
Dates for diaries
Tuesday 4th January- pupils return to school
Monday 7th February- online safety week
Friday 18th February- break up for half term
Monday 28th February- Staff training day
Tuesday 29th February- pupils return to school
Wednesday 2nd March – Parents’ evening
Thursday 3rd March – Parents’ evening
Friday 18th March- Comic Relief
Monday 28th March – Friday 8th April -SEND Reviews
Friday 8th April- Break up for Easter break
Further dates will be added as the year goes on. We will communicate these via email and the school newsletter.
Hello and welcome to Spring term in Year 1! We are looking forward to another exciting term of learning. Say hello to our team-
5E – Mr Emmott
5M – Miss McCabe
5EW – Miss Edwards and Mrs Wilson
Should you need to speak with your child’s teacher please send an email to; enquiry@bournvillevillageprimary.org.uk
For appointments or absences from school please call the office or send an email to; attendance@bournvillevillageprimary.org.uk
P.E. days:
Tuesday – 5M & 5EW
Wednesday – all of Year 5
Friday – 5E
These days will rotate throughout the year. We will inform you via Seesaw before changes take place.
Library
Year 5 will visit the library on a Tuesday. Please ensure that your child has their borrowed book in their bag if they need to change it.
Homework
The usual days for setting homework are Tuesday for Maths and Thursday for English.
Visits and Visitors
During Spring term, we currently have no visits or visitors. We will, however, have the Royal Shakespeare Company and Dave Shaw’s Rainforest Roadshow visiting us in the Summer Term. Details will follow accordingly.
Curriculum Overview |
English Reading In year 5, children will engage with a wide range of writing opportunities. Writing outcomes in spring term will include writing a narrative, writing in role and non-fiction writing, such as a journal and newspaper reports. Children will continue to practise applying multi-clause sentences in their writing with the correct use of punctuation. They will also continue to learn about using semi-colons and brackets in their writing. |
Maths:
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Science | Materials and Changes |
French | Breakfast/At the Café. |
Geography | Rivers and the Water Cycle |
History | People and Power in British History |
Music | Pop Ballads |
R.E. | Pilgrimage/Creation Stories |
Computing | Spreadsheets/Databases |
PSHE | Dreams and Goals/Healthy Me |
Art | Pop Art/Old-School Hip |
D&T | Fairground Rides |
P.E. | Athletics & Tennis (Outdoor) Fitness/Volleyball (Indoor) |
Autumn term 2021
Class teachers can be contacted via email to enquiry@bournvillevillageprimaryschool.org.uk or via the school phone number. However, if your enquiry is regarding absence, please use attendance@bournvillevillageprimary.org.uk .
P.E
P.E. days: Tuesday – 5E & 5EW Wednesday – all of Year 5 Friday – 5M
These days will rotate throughout the year. We will inform you via Seesaw before changes take place.
Library
Year 5 will visit the library on a Tuesday. Please ensure that your child has their borrowed book in their bag if they need to change it.
Homework
The usual days for setting homework are Tuesday for Maths and Thursday for English.
Visits and visitors
Museum in a box will be arriving on Thursday 4th November as we begin our Tudor Transformation unit. We aim to use further visits and visitors to support our curriculum. Further details to follow.
English
Reading
We are a Power of Reading school and therefore use a range of high-quality texts and strategies to facilitate our English lessons. These books are carefully chosen to expose the children to a wide range of vocabulary and to support their writing skills. We are confident that the children will find these texts highly engaging, and you will hear more about them throughout the year.
Writing
In year 5, children will engage with a wide range of writing opportunities. In autumn term, poetry, narrative and letter writing will feature alongside in-depth character analysis. Children will consolidate and expand upon their knowledge of grammar and punctuation, and work with a range of spelling rules. Children will study and produce descriptive writing, non-chronological reports, recounts, persuasive letters and narrative.
Maths
During autumn term, our focus will be primarily on number and place value. The children will:
- Consolidate and develop their understanding of numbers to a million
- Round numbers to one million
- Compare and order numbers
- Investigate and work with negative numbers
- Express numbers in Roman numerals
- Develop their use of written methods for addition and subtraction using larger numbers and more than one exchange
- Develop their understanding of statistics using a broader range of graphs, timetables and charts
- Develop their understanding of multiplication and division
- Develop their understanding of perimeter and area
Wider curriculum
Recommended reads for Year 5
The Wild Way Home by Sophie Kirtley
Kensuke’s Kingdom by Michael Morpurgo
The Highland Thief by M.G. Leonard and Sam Sedgman
The Good Thieves by Katherine Rundell
Goth Girl by Chris Riddell