Year 5JK
Hello and welcome 5JK!
I am the Year 5 class teacher, Mr Kerr. We are very lucky to be receiving support from Mr Morgan and Miss Cavanagh across both classes.
We are very excited to be teaching your child over the next academic year and hope to make learning engaging and interesting for all.
We’re looking forward to a fantastic year with your children. Thank you all for your support, and if you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to ask.
This term in Geography we will be learning about Europe. We will be learning about a range of different European countries as well as the different regions of Europe including Scandinavia, Mediterranean and Eastern Europe.
In History, this term we’re starting to learn about the Anglo-Saxons. This is such an exciting and interesting topic that we’re sure the children will love learning about. We will explore the impact that the Anglo-Saxons have had on our country, look at how our current counties were designed by the Anglo-Saxon cities and explore how our country changed when the Romans left and the Anglo-Saxons took charge.
In Science, we are going to be learning about the different forces, this is an exciting unit filled with practical activities aimed at helping children understand how different forces, such as gravity and friction, affect the world around us.
In English, we will be using the story ‘How To Train Your Dragon’ as our inspiration to support our writing. This term we will be exploring new writing concepts such as relative clauses, modal verbs, expanded noun phrases and using brackets and dashes for parenthesis.
In Maths, we are looking at place value, addition and subtraction. In Year 5, we would expect all children to have a good knowledge of all the place value of numbers up to 1,000,000 and will be looking at bigger numbers throughout this year. We will then be using a variety of strategies to tackle different addition and subtraction questions. Please support your child at home by practising their timetables weekly by using TTRockstars. Your child’s arithmetic skills are incredibly important and are the foundation of many areas in maths.
In our reading lessons, we will be reading a variety of text types and books by different authors and answering a range of different question types. As reading plays an essential part in supporting your child’s progress in all subjects, your child needs to read daily for 10-15 minutes and discuss their reading with an adult. Please make sure you provide 10-15 minutes a day where your child has a quiet time and is encouraged to read.
We ask that the children change their books weekly by bringing the books back to school and handing them to the teacher. Please remind your children to bring their reading books to school as soon as they have finished reading them.
This year we are having a new focus on being word aware and will be learning a variety of new words throughout each week in school to help support the children with their vocabulary and understanding of more complex words in the English language.
Every Wednesday and Thursday (in Y5JK) and Wednesday and Friday (in Y5DE) we will have PE and this term we will explore dance and netball. I would like to remind you that the PE kit should include: a white T-shirt, a black hoodie and black joggers, shorts or leggings.
