🙂Welcome to Year 5!🙂
As you know your child has now moved into upper Key Stage 2 meaning that it is not only the curriculum and our learning that is of top priority but it is also extremely important that we begin to focus on building independence and responsibility in readiness for your child moving into Year 6 and eventually onto secondary school.
As part of our English curriculum we have already read the Viking Boy which captured everyone’s imagination and gave a real purpose for writing and we have now moved on to The Explorer. An excellent novel about a group of children who find themselves lost in the Amazon Rainforest. I have also been elated to see that so many of the children have been enthused about their own reading and have thoroughly enjoyed listening to and talking to them about their chosen books. It has been wonderful to seeso many of you posting on Learning with Parernts, I really enjoy reading all your comments and seeing photos and recordings.
We still have so much to come this year and I cannot wait to see your children progress even further.
Stay tuned for updates!
Thanks
Mrs Ashton
Our trip to Murton Park
As part of our topic on Vikings in Autumn term 1 we were lucky enough to go on trip to Murton Park where children had the opportunity to dress up as Vikings and find out what life was like in a real-life Viking village. They made clay candle holders, played Vikings games and even defended their village with spears and shields just as the Vikings would have done. This trip added to their knowledge about who the Vikings were, Viking voyages, what the Vikings traded and raided, what they believed in.
PE
Our PE days are Wednesday and Thursday but please ensure your child has their PE kit all week in case of any unexpected chages to the timetable. Our Year 5 children are lucky enough to have Mr Staley for one of their PE sessions of the week where children will benefit from his skills in athletics, football, gymnastics, orienteering, criket and football. For the other lesson on Thursday's children will have the opportunity to practice and hone their skills in fitness, dodge ball, dance, tennis and athletics with Mrs Ashton.
Year 5 focus
In Maths children will be consilidating, combining times-tables knowledge and rounding to estimate and check calculations; or using division facts to find common denominators when working with fractions. In English, having mastered their phonological reading skills, they can focus on higher-level understanding of texts, through inference, deduction and extending their personal vocabulary; in writing, to combine these to create convincing texts with informed choice and control.
Children’s personal development is just as important as their academic development and, as they grow and mature, more is expected of them in terms of independence, responsibility and behaviour. In Y5, children will be encouraged to think more independently and take more responsibility for their own learning, for their actions and their relations with others.
Y5 is a year in which many pupils begin to change from being little children to young people who want to assert their fledgling independence and develop their own interests and personalities; it is an exciting time to be in school.
