Elder

Year 5

Miss Owen & Mrs Drury

Mrs Highgate and Mr Watkins

Welcome to our Elder Class webpage where you can find information about our classroom routines, current learning and some recommended websites and information to help! If you have any questions, please contact me via the school email address: admin@thepinesschool.org.uk

Hello, my name is Miss Owen and I am delighted to be teaching Elder class this year. When I am not teaching, I enjoy playing football, watching lots of different sports, reading and spending time with my family. I cannot wait to see what exciting things the year has in store for Elder class and to be working with parents/carers throughout their child's journey in Year 5!

Meet the Teacher

Meet the teacher - Elder.pptx

Classroom routines:

Our main classroom door for the start and end of the school day is at the bottom of the top playground slope.

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

Our regular PE lessons will be on a Wednesday afternoon and Friday afternoon. Children should come to school wearing their PE kit on both of those day and have their jewellery either removed, taped or covered for those sessions.

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 operations. 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 writing mystery narratives, with a focus on building suspense. We will develop our understanding of the following things: