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Bitham Brook Primary School

In a community of kindness where all belong: be positive, be resilient, be creative

Year Five

We have two Year 5 classes - Miss Glass and Miss Gascoigne

Support Staff - Ms Castle and Mrs Bullingham 

 

Welcome back Year 5

 

I hope you have all had a great break. As the weather can be changeable, please can you make sure that your child still has a coat please. Could you also make sure that your child has their name on everything so that they are easy to find.

 

Please could children also ensure jewellery is removed before their PE lesson or prior to coming to school. Please can we also remind you that the children will not need to bring in pencil cases or stationary as this will be provided in class, and that toys and valuables are kept at home. 

Homework 

 

Spellings- will be given each week with an accompanying homework sheet. Children can also practice on the EDshed website using their logins.

Continue to read at home.

Continue practicing for times table challenges on Times Table Rock Stars.

Complete any homework set on purple mash

 

 

PE Days

Children will have PE on Tuesday and Friday. Please ensure that children come to school wearing their Bitham Brook PE kit on these days. 

 

Tuesday- Dance/ Athletics

Friday- Athletics/ Swimming

 

When the children have PE they should continue to wear their Bitham Brook PE kit into school with the school jumper over the top (if weather conditions require a jumper).  Please note the Bitham Brook PE kit is a plain white t-shirt and black shorts/leggings/tracksuit with trainers.  Other sports clothing is not acceptable as it is important, that as a school, we have pride in our appearance.  It is important that children do not attend school in casual clothing as we want to maintain the children's sense of education being important; pride in their appearance; and belonging to Bitham Brook.

‘Letters from the Lighthouse’ by Emma Carroll.

Learning this Term

Maths     

In maths, we will be converting units of measure particularly time, length and mass. The children will use conversions to apply to a series of problems linking to the theme of the Olympics. Towards the second half of the term, the children will be calculating with whole and decimal numbers. 

 

Writing

Our writing will be linked to our class book, ‘Letters from the Lighthouse’ by Emma Carroll. We will begin the term by writing a letter set during World War 2. We will finish the term by writing a historical narrative drawing in all the writing devices and techniques learnt over the previous weeks.

 

 

Reading

During reading, we will be working our way through our class book ‘Letters from the Lighthouse’ by Emma Carroll, and interrogate the text using a variety of skills. The children will be able to continue with their own reading and testing their understanding using Accelerated Reader.

 

PSHE       

Our PSHE topic this term is called ‘Relationships’. In this unit, children will learn about online communities and recognise and learn what to do when a situation may be unsafe or uncomfortable. Children will learn what their rights and responsibilities are in an online community or social network. We will finish the term learning to recognise when screen time could affect someone’s health.

 

Science

In science, we will be looking at Forces. We will be learning about gravity, air resistance, water resistance and friction as well as identifying the forces used in different mechanisms.

 

Art

In Art this term, we will be looking at Sculpture. The children will apply skills learnt to create a clay coil pot.

 

 

 

Geography

In Geography, we will be learning about climates across the world. We will be looking at climate zones, plotting climate graphs and learning about biomes and vegetation belts.

 

 

Computing 

n computers, the children will be learning the skill of coding. Children will create a program using event, object and action code blocks.

 

 

Physical Education   

In PE, we will be focussing on learning the different skills of athletics. These will include sprinting, longer distance running, throwing (javelin and shot) and long jump.

 

 

 RE

We will be debating in our Re lessons ‘How people and events in history have shaped Christian diversity’

 

 

 

French

We will be focussing on developing our use of the French language to explain what I and others do as well as describing where we may be going.

 

 

 

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