Year 5

Mrs Moorby-Lewis & Mrs Drury

 Mrs Aripin and Mr Watkins

Welcome to our Ash Class webpage. We hope this page will help you find any information you need about class routines and what we are learning this year. If you have any questions, please contact me via the school email address: admin@thepinesschool.org.uk

Class Routines

Our main classroom door for the start and end of the school day is at the back of the classroom opening onto the driveway.

Classroom doors open at 8:40am and the school day ends at 3:10pm. 

 Our regular PE lessons are as follows:

Indoor PE - Wednesday

Outdoor PE - Friday

On these days, children should come to school wearing their PE kit. Jewellery will need to be removed for the session, or covered with tape.

Current Learning: 

This term, Year 5 will be exploring the Anglo-Saxons and trying to answer the question ‘Is conflict necessary for change?’ We will be looking at who the Anglo-Saxons were and why they chose to settle in Britain. We will also study artefacts from the period and use these to help us infer what daily life was like. In English, we will be writing our own mystery narratives, with a focus on building suspense, before moving on to non-chronological reports, linked to our work on Beowulf. In maths, we will be looking at place value initially, before moving on to look at the four calculations. In our DT lessons, we will be making pop-up books, which will enable us to publish our mystery narratives. In our art lessons, the children will be studying illuminated lettering, before creating their own typography styles. In science, we will be exploring different materials and their properties. We will test a range of materials for their durability, absorbency and magnetic properties. In our PE lessons, we will be developing skills, related to rugby and netball.

At the moment, we are particularly focusing on this learning:

Mystery Narrative - We will be mystery narratives, with a focus on building suspense. We will develop our understanding of the following things:

• Paragraphs
• Dialogue and how to use this to move the action forward
• Fronted adverbials
• Descriptive devices, such as adjectives, similes, metaphors and personification

Maths:

• Place value
• Addition
• Subtraction

Science:

Materials and their properties

Curriculum Overview

Home Learning

For information on Home Learning in Year 5 please see the guidance below:

Recommended Websites:

Maths

Method videos - https://whiteroseeducation.com/parent-pupil-resources/maths/home-learning?year=year-5-new

Times tables - https://ttrockstars.com/

Telling the time - https://mathsframe.co.uk/en/resources/resource/116/telling-the-time

Problem solving - https://nrich.maths.org/9086 

English

Reading - https://www.topmarks.co.uk/english-games/7-11-years/reading 

Spelling - https://spellingframe.co.uk/

Grammar - https://www.topmarks.co.uk/english-games/7-11-years/spelling-and-grammar 

Ash Class really enjoyed celebrating World Book Day and showcased some fantastic outfits!