Cranborne Primary School

Welcome to Year 5's class page.

Here you will find information about our fantastic learning, experiences, class information and any other news.

 Year 5 is full of fun, hard work and teamwork. Please remember to bring in your stationery and reading book every day, so that you are ready to learn as soon as you enter the classroom!

Contact details:

5C:

Mrs Christoforou:   rchristoforou@cranborne.herts.sch.uk

Ms Antoniou :  antonioue@cranborne.herts.sch.uk 

5H:

Miss Hughes:    shughes53@cranborne.herts.sch.uk

Mrs Mccarthy:     smccarthy26@cranborne.herts.sch.uk 

Maths:

In Maths, we will revise and practise all of the maths skills that you have gained so far at school. We will also be extending your understanding and focusing on the following areas of learning:

• place value
• properties of number 
• mental strategies 
• addition and subtraction 
• multiplication and division 
• fractions - comparing, adding, and subtracting. 

At home, please continue to make regular use of Mathletics, Times Tables Rockstars and Purple Mash. Most days will begin with a Maths 'Early Morning Work' session.

Keep practising fast recall of the times tables as you will need to apply these in many areas of mathematics.

Physical Education:

This term, for Year 5, PE will be on a Monday and Friday.

Monday afternoon = outdoor PE with class teacher

Friday afternoon = indoor PE with Mr Roberts (PSD Sports Coach)

The focus for the lessons is currently still to be confirmed, and is weather dependent.

On PE days, please ensure that children come in to school wearing their PE kit and have removed/taped any earrings.

Religious Education: 

 Our key questions that will drive our learning in the autumn term are: 

1) What does the Qur'an reveal about Allah and his guidance?

2) Why is the gospel such good news for Christians?

Personal, Social and Health Education:

Our first two units will be, 'Being me in the world' and 'Celebrating difference'. These units will allow children to really consider the network of people around them and their amazing uniqueness!

French:

In Year 5, we aim to develop the children's enjoyment when speaking and understanding the French language. We will endeavour to use a variety of games and activities to build confidence and understanding. 

The first topic will be, 'Myself and my family' where we will revise how to introduce ourselves and other family members.

Of course, we are very lucky to have Mrs Dunton (who is French) to help us too!

Ideas to help your child at home:

• Use the Pobble 365 website to practise creative writing
• Practise times tables using Times Tables Rockstars
• Read a book together and discuss what has happened 
• Discuss new vocabulary
• Read a range of genres together: letters that come through the post, news articles etc
• Practise spellings by writing words in different colours or making a nice poster with tricky words on
• Ask your child to explain the maths concept we have been learning this week
• Baking – practise measuring and converting grams/kilograms
• Use digital and analogue clocks to tell the time - maybe look at a bus/train timetable together before taking a ride.

Oxford owl:

For extra spelling resources and ebooks please follow this link:

https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/ 

Username: cranborne

Password: school 1 

Art, Design Technology and Computing:

In Art, we will be creating underwater art using various painting techniques.

We will explore shades and tints of colours and use wax resist as a barrier to water colours.

Computing - we will cover the units: Quizzing, Game Creator and Databases. The children will use Purple Mash and Chromebooks to complete their work. 

They will have the opportunity to use the Chromebooks to create documents in a cross-curricular way.

DT - This term, in our DT lessons, we will be looking at how bread is made and exploring the huge variety of breads available.

.The children will be sampling, designing and making breads... and we get to try it!

Spellings:

We will teach and test spellings weekly. Children will practise these in class and also bring them home to learn.

Attached is the National Curriculum Statutory Spellings for years 3/4 and year 5/6.

Please note the children should be mainly secure with the Year 3/4 spellings and working towards the Year 5/6 words.

Science:

In Science this term, we will be learning about 'living things and their habitats' 

We will be going to Whipsnade Zoo to see our learning in real life! 

Our objectives are:

• describe the differences in the lifecyles of mammals, amphbians, insects and birds.
• descibe the process of reproduction in some plants and animals 

Following this, we will move on to our next topic, 'Forces'.

In this topic, we will be exploring gravity, air and water resistance and friction. This topic allows us to develop our working scientifically skills through planning investigations, carrying them out and forming conclusions from our results.

Geography and History:

This term, we will be finding out about Ancient Greece. Our key question to drive our learning will be, ' What did the Greeks do for us?"

We will be using various sources to investigate life in Ancient Greece, discovering the achievements of this ancient civilization, and considering how this period of history has influenced the Western world. 

Music:

This year, we will be using the Charanga Music Scheme to guide our lessons, and we will begin with the topic, 'How does music bring us together?'

This year, we will also be learning how to play the recorder and looking at musical notation.