Year 5 2025 - 2026
Miss Stockton
WELCOME TO YEAR FIVE
Miss Stockton and Miss Street
Please see the below information regarding this half term and what exciting things Year 5 will be learning! If you need to contact me for any reason, please do so on our class email: year5@vinetree.org.uk
Year 5 P.E. days:
Tuesday and Thursday
Please make sure your child comes to school in FULL PE kit (T-shirt, shorts/joggers, sweatshirt/top and trainers).
Please ensure that your child brings hair ties and can remove earrings themselves before a session.
English
This half term we are going on an adventure with Isabella from The Girl of Ink and Stars as she tries to unravel the mystery of her missing friend. Through the story we will create our own setting description of the busy marketplace, encompassing all the sights and sounds around us. We will then go on to write about our own mythical creature and the setting we find them in whether that be the depths of the sea or high in the mountains.
Geography Learning Challenge:
What are the main differences between the Amazon Rainforest, the Lake District and Antarctica?
We will be exploring where in the world the Amazon, Lake District and Antarctica is as well as how they differ in climate. We will also look at the physical and human features associated with each location. By the end of the topic, children will have an idea of what it is like to live in each one of these places.
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Maths: This term we will be focusing on place value. This will include reading and writing numbers up to 1 million, using partitioning, comparing and ordering number, rounding and looking at negative numbers. We will then be moving onto Addition and Subtraction (both mental and written methods) after half term. Below are some videos explaining these methods for a little extra help. We will also be investigating area and perimeter throughout the term. Throughout the year children continue to practice and improve their times table knowledge through Daily Ten, Hit the Button and Times Table Rockstars. Children should be accessing Times Table Rockstars at least 30 minutes a week!
Links to these sites are below: click the picture and challenge your child to a game! |
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This term we will be exploring bridges. We will be looking at the features of different materials that make them better or less suited to bridge building whilst also considering structure as seen in beam, arch and truss bridges. We will experiement with cardboard and spaghetti to investigate the strongest structures. Finally, we will use our woodwork skills to build a bridge and test its strength.
In science we will be looking at revesible and irreversible changes. We will create mixtures and solutions and investigate whether we are able to separate them again back to their original form using sieving, filtering and evaporation. Ask the children what changes are reversible and which are not.
Each Monday spelling homework will be set online on SpellingShed linked to that weeks spelling rule. Times Table Rockstar should be completed three times a week for at least ten minutes - it is vital that these are practiced regularly as they are essential to many aspects of maths.
Children are also expected to read three times a week to improve their fluency and comprehension.