• 100 Recommended Reads for Y5
• Spring Term

Teacher - Mrs Done
Teaching Assistant - Mrs Piercy

Homework: 
English and Mathematics homework will be given out on a Wednesday to be returned the following Monday.  

Spellings:
Spellings will be given out on Friday via SpellShed; to be tested on the following Friday.

Reading books:
Home reading books will be sent home and children should return them when they have finished reading them. It is vital that children continue to read at home. Children should be reading a book of their choice for at least 15 minutes each day.

PE:
Year 5 have PE every Thursday and Friday.  The children will change into their kit in school.  The PE uniform is: red PE T-shirt; school sweatshirt; dark shorts/joggers/tracksuit pants or leggings; and trainers on these days. Hair must be tied back and jewellery taken off.

Welcome to Year 5
Below is an outline of all the brilliant topics we will be studying this half term:

English: The Darkest Dark by Chris Hadfield. We will be writing a recount in the style of a biography.

Mathematics: Fractions, Decimals and Percentages, Measure

RE: Reconciliation

Science: Earth and Space

Guided Reading: Exploring Space by The Literacy Company

History/Geography: Lines of Longitude and Latitude

PE: 

Art/DT: Mechanisms - Pulleys and Gears

Computing: Data and information - flat-file databases

French: Going Shopping

Music: Introducing Chords - How does music teach us about our community?