Year 5
Updated January 2022
Welcome to Year 5!
Year 5B are taught by Miss Brogan and 5W by Miss Walmsley.They are supported by Christina Nicky, Ada and Theresa. They can be contacted via year5@earlsfield.wandsworth.sch.uk
Happy New Year and welcome back to another exciting term at Earlsfield! We hope you had a wonderful Christmas holiday and are ready for some exciting new topics this term. We can’t wait to have you back in the classroom again!
In English lessons, we are looking forward to reading our Power of Reading book ‘Street Child’ by Berlie Doherty to inspire our talk, drama and writing. We will be exploring Victorian Britain and empathising with Jim Jarvis, imagining what it would be like to be homeless on the cold streets of London.
In maths, we will begin the term consolidating our understanding of multiplication & division before moving onto fractions, decimals and percentages. We really encourage the use of Doodle Maths at home which has shown to really improve maths fluency - we will be keeping track of who is in the green zone! As well as this, we encourage rockin’ out on Times Tables Rockstars.
In Topic, Year Five will be learning about Monarchs. As this is a broad topic, we will be working on it for the entire Spring term! We will focus on monarchs around the world and in particular, what makes them memorable. Starting with English Monarchs, we will compare how the different monarchs ruled and why they have been remembered throughout history. We also have an exciting trip to Hampton Court planned where we will take part in a workshop which investigates the role of the Tudor kitchen in Henry VIII’s court.
For the scientists, we will be looking at Space! Building on the previous knowledge about Space acquired in Year 1, we are going to be learning all about the planets and our solar system; including seasons, day and night and shadows. We are also going to be looking at the different phases of the moon and the relationship between the Earth and the sun.
In addition to our carefully planned lessons, we have some amazing interactive lessons planned for the Spring term to help you gain a greater understanding of our fantastic topics. Year 5 can also look forward to continuing your specialist subjects and are very lucky to have a number of fantastic specialist teachers this term including: AM Sports Coaches (PE), David (Gym), Madame Clarke (French) and Mr Hopcraft (Music).
On Thursday we will share weekly home tasks for Guided Reading in your child’s pupil handbook. Weekly spellings will also be shared in these handbooks every Monday. Please encourage your child to read and practice their spellings regularly.
We value your support and encourage you to continue to work alongside your children at home. If you have any questions or queries please don’t hesitate to email our Year 5 address.
Key Learning
You can find out about our approach to all our subjects through the curriculum page but the headlines for the year group are below.
Reading
Children can maintain positive attitudes to reading and understanding by:
- I can continue to read and discuss a wide range of age appropriate fiction, poetry, plays, non-fiction and reference books or textbooks
- I can increase my familiarity with a wide range of books including myths, legends and traditional stories, modern fiction, fiction from our literary heritage, and books from other cultures and traditions
- I can recommend books I have read to my peers, giving reasons for my choices
- I can identify and discuss themes and conventions in writing
- I can make comparisons within and across books
- I can prepare poems and plays to read aloud and to perform, showing understanding through intonation, tone and volume so that the meaning is clear to an audience
Children can understand what they read by:
- I can check that the book I am reading makes sense and I can discuss my understanding and explore the meaning of words in context
- I can ask questions to improve my understanding
- I can draw inferences such as inferring characters' feelings, thoughts and motives from their actions, and justify inferences with evidence
- I can predict what might happen from details stated and implied
- I can discuss and evaluate how authors use language, including figurative language, considering the impact on the reader
- I can distinguish between statements of fact and opinion
- I can retrieve, record and present information from non-fiction
- I can participate in discussions about books building on their own and others' ideas and challenging view courteously
Writing
Writing
- I can write for a range of purposes and audiences, confidently selecting structure and organisation.
- I can describe settings, characters and atmosphere to consciously engage the reader
- I am beginning to use dialogue to convey a character and advance the action
- I can select and use organisational and presentational devices that are relevant to the text type E.g. headings, bullet points, underlining etc
- I am beginning to proofread read my work and precis longer passages by removing unnecessary repetition or irrelevant details
- I can use paragraphs that are suitably linked
- I can use the following punctuation correctly :full stops and capital letters, question marks and exclamation marks
- I can use commas to clarify meaning with increasing accuracy
- I can use a wide range of linking words/phrases between sentences and paragraphs to build cohesion including time adverbials (later) place adverbial (nearby) and number (secondly)
- I can begin to use brackets, dashes and commas to indicate parenthesis
- I can use adverbs (perhaps, surely) and modal verbs(should, could, might) to indicate degrees of possibility
Spelling
- I can spell many complex homophones correctly
- I can spell words with prefixes and suffixes correctly
- I can spell many of the statutory words for Year 5
Handwriting
- I can write legibly, fluently and with increasing speed
Greater depth (working above the national expected standard
- I can use a wide range of clause structures, sometimes varying their position within the sentence
- I can regularly use dialogue to convey a character and advance the action
- I can consistently link ideas across paragraphs
- I can describe settings and characters and atmosphere with carefully chosen vocabulary to enhance mood, clarify meaning and create pace
- I can make some use of semi colons, dashes, colons and hyphens
Statutory spellings
| Autumn 1 | Autumn 2 | Spring 1 | Spring 2 | Summer 1 | Summer 2 |
|
occur accompany according achieve aggressive forty ancient apparent occupy |
attached available average awkward bargain bruise category cemetery critic |
communicate competition conscience conscious dictionary equipped curiosity definite harass foreign |
controversy convenience correspond criticise desperate determined disastrous embarrass environment equipment |
especially exaggerate hindrance excellent existence explanation familiar amateur frequently government |
guarantee immediate knowledge experiment experience business possession disappear weight separate |
Maths
In Maths we follow the White Rose Hub. You can find out more about White Rose through our dedicated maths page
Science
Properties and Changes in Materials
Topics
What is democracy and the legacy of the Ancient Greeks?
What makes a monarch memorable?
Homework
We set homework in Key Stage 2 in the following ways:
- Spellings - bring handbook to school as usual
- Guided Reading - bring handbook to school as usual
- Literacy and Topic - Google Classroom
- Talking Homework - Google Classroom
- Maths - TTRS (Times Tables Rock Stars) and Mathletics
Students without digital access will get paper copies (need to return book)
You can access our guide to google classrooms or if you have any technical or password issues please email techsupport@earlsfield.wandsworth.sch.uk
Days to remember
| Day | Activity |
| Monday |
Spelling test New spelling sent home |
| Tuesday | Homework handed in |
| Wednesday |
Wear PE kit school Hand in Guided Reading homework |
| Thursday |
Homework sent home. Guided Reading Day and books sent home. |
| Friday | Wear PE kit to school |
| As frequently as possible but at least x times per week | Reading, Time Tables Rockstars and Doodle Maths and English |
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