Year 5
Welcome to Year 5!
“God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in them.”
(1 John 4:16)
Mrs Brotherton (Monday - Wednesday)
Mrs Elwen (Wednesday - Friday)
Mrs Mulvey (Teaching Assistant)
What an amazing first few days for our Year Fives! They have all come into school looking smart and ready to learn. We hope your child has felt safe and happy during the school day.
This year we will introduce new learning challenges and experiences for the children and we look forward to sharing these with you.
As always if you have any questions no matter how big or small do come and speak to us so we can promptly sort out any issues that may arise. You can contact us at office@stjosephscatholicprimary.org or speak to us at the end of the school day when we are dismissing the class.
Warm wishes,
Mrs Elwen and Mrs Brotherton
Key Information:
PE days: Monday and Friday
Homework: sent out Friday to be returned by the following Tuesday
Spellings: sent home on a Monday to be tested the following Monday
Reading diaries: to be brought in everyday please
The children have enjoyed mixing colours. We learnt about primary, secondary and tertiary colours then created our own.
Meet The Teacher Slides
Curriculum Long Term Plans
Autumn 1
We are very much looking forward to teaching this half term's topics. Here are a few of the things we have in store:
- RE: Creation - we will explore the Creation story from the Bible and investigate how this differs from the Big Bang Theory. We will also learn about our role as God's stewards who have been appointed to take care of our World.
- Guided reading: Armistice Runner- two lives connected by memory. Can Lily win the race? We will continue to use the Vipers scheme of work.
- English: Children will learn about the key features of diary entries and using their learning from History and Guided reading lessons will create their own fantastic diary entry with emotive language. We will then move onto create a non-chronological report about WWI.
- Grammar: We will recap, nouns, adjectives, adverbs, contractions, and different types of sentences.
- Maths: We will start with place value and will be comparing, ordering and rounding numbers to the nearest 10, 100, 1,000, 10,000 and even 100,000. From there we will move onto Addition and Subtraction and we'll soon become confident working with numbers up to 7-digits!
- History: Children will lean about the events that led to WWI, the key nations in the war, life in the trenches and the impact of the sinking of the Lusitania. Children will have opportunities question and look at sources to form their own opinions.
- Science: Properties of Materials - we will investigate solubility, thermal insulators and conductors as well as reversible and irreversible changes.
- Art: Children will learn about art and design skills, such as shading and observation skills linked to WWI.
- PE: Children will focus on activities to develop their athletics skills including: sustaining pace over a longer distance in running, developing jumping techniques and throwing with greater accuracy.
- Computing: We will start with online safety then learn how we can use search engines to retrieve information that is accurate and reliable.
- Music: We will continue to enjoy our weekly singing lessons with the Leeds Catholic Diocesan Music Service