Cranborne Primary School

FABULOUS YEAR 5!

Welcome to Year 5's class page.

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

Class email 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 

Welcome to Year 5.

We can not wait for you to start with us. Year 5 is full of fun, hard work and adventure ! Please remember to bring in yoru stationary so that you are ready to learn as soon as you enter the classroom!

um Trip
Thursday 6th February Year 1 History of Toys Day
Tuesday 11th February Year 3 Epping Forest Field Studies Day
MONDAY 17TH TO FRIDAY
21ST FEBRUARY
HALF TERM HOLIDAY – SCHOOL CLOSED
MONDAY 24TH FEBRUARY INSET DAY 3 – NO CHILDREN PLEASE

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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: tbc 

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Religious Education: 

 Our key question that will drive our learning this term:

Big Question - 

How to help at home:

• Use Pobble 365 website to practise creative writing
• Practise times tables using Times Tables Rockstars
• Reading together and asking what has happened so far
• Discussing new vocabulary
• Reading a range of genres: letters that come through the post, news articles
• Practise your 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
• Telling the time

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 shades and tints  and wax resist and water colour

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 - we will be looking at nutrition and cooking. The children will be designing and making bread and we get to try it!

Spellings:

We will teach spelling patterns/rules weekly and children will practise these in class.

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 out learning in real life! 

Our objectives are:

• describe the differences in the lifecyles of a mammal, an amphbians, an insect and a bird.
• descibe the life process of reproduction in some plants and animals 

Geography and History:

We will be studying Ancient Greece. Our key question  will be ' What did the Greeks do for us?"

We will be studying Greek life and its achievements and how this influenced the Western world.