Year 5
Welcome to Term 5!
Even though this term is short, it will still be jam-packed with lots of learning and exciting opportunities, including a trip and a school-wide celebration for the 80th anniversary of VE Day! In Literacy, we will be starting our last book of the year, Kensuke’s Kingdom, where we will immerse ourselves into the story of a child sailing around the world with his parents who is washed up on a desert island. In Maths, we are going to be finishing our learning around area and perimeter and then moving onto revisiting decimals but focussing on adding and subtracting them. Our Topic for this term, will be Rainforests where we will be exploring where they are in the world, the different wildlife that live there and the threats they face.
One of the most exciting parts of this term, is going to be our trip to Creed Outdoor Activity Centre where children will have a chance to take part in several outdoor activities including archery, team building and rock climbing.
Even though, there are less weeks at school, the expectations of AR, TTRS and spellings will continue this term. As always, we are hoping that lots of children will meet their termly target with AR as well as pushing themselves to hit our yearly target of 600,000 words or to become a Millionaire Reader or even a multi-millionaire!
This term we had lots of fun opportunities in addition to our normal lessons. We were very lucky to have a theatre group come in and lead an interactive Macbeth workshop, where children were able to play the characters and be involved in the retelling of the play. We also visited EKC to use their theatre as a culmination event for the opera we have been doing with the Royal Opera House. Here, we had the opportunity to join in with warm-up activities and sing the songs we had been learning for the last 2 terms. This term, we also had World Book Day were we dressed up as characters from books, wrote as if we were a water droplet and created a piece of artwork inspired by a book! During Science Week, we focused on the theme of ‘Change and Adapt’ and took part in a number of experiments, including making salt dough and looking at how to pick up ice with string and salt, which showcased how fun and exciting Science can be!
What a busy term we have had! The children have certainly earned a 2 week break!
We hope you all have an enjoyable and restful Easter Holidays!
The Year 5 Team
Welcome to Term 4!
In Literacy this term, we will be immersing ourselves in the world of Shakespeare, where we will read an adapted version of Macbeth. This will give us the chance to write a variety of pieces as well as engage in some acting. Towards the end of the term, we will have visitors come in and do a Macbeth workshop, which we are sure all the children will enjoy. In Numeracy, we are going to be focussing on decimals and the relationship between decimals, fractions and percentages. In Topic, we will be exploring the Ancient Greeks, focussing on the Olympics, Gods and Goddesses and what life was like in Ancient Greece.
We will also continue to focus on ‘The Magic Flute’ in music, where we have the exciting opportunity to go to EKC to use their theatre and continue to develop and showcase what we have learnt.
The expectations of AR, TTRS and spellings will continue this term. Lots of children met and exceeded their targets last term, we look forward to that happening again this term! There are even a number of children that have already met the yearly word count target of 600,000 words which is amazing – we hope you continue to push yourself to be a Millionaire Reader!
The Year 5 Team
We are somehow now halfway through Year 5! This term, like the others, has flown by and been full of lots of learning opportunities.
The children showed great resilience and risk-taking all through the term and especially with their CATs tests at the end of the term. A highlight of the term was when we had a workshop with the Royal Opera House, who worked with us on a song from the ‘Magic Flute’, the opera we have been exploring and learning about. We all enjoyed having the chance to act, sing and stage one of the songs. Another highlight was definitely Minster’s Got Talent, where a number of children from Year 5 showed bravery by auditioning in front of the year group – we certainly have lots of talent in Year 5! In between all of this, we still worked hard in Maths, Literacy, Topic, Science and more. As you can see this was certainly a busy term!
We look forward to even more exciting opportunities next term!
Welcome to Term 3
In Literacy this term we will be reading ‘Tear Thief’, we will have the chance to write as the Tear Thief in a diary entry as well as compose our own poem and narrative story. In Numeracy, we are moving on to looking at fractions, where we will be adding and subtracting them, comparing and converting between improper fractions and mixed numbers. In Topic, we are going to be exploring the continent of South America and improving our map and atlas skills.
We also have the exciting opportunity of The Royal Opera House coming into school and carrying out a workshop with us linking to the music lessons we will be doing this term.
The expectations of AR, TTRS and spellings will continue this term. So many children met and even exceeded their targets last term, we look forward to that happening again this term!
What a busy term with all the Christmas activities! Year 5 shone at their Christmas performance with some amazing singing and class poems. They also worked hard to create some great Christmas Around the World products after learning about Iceland – this helped us to raise money for 2 very well-deserving charities. It was certainly a term where we were the ‘Best Citizen’ and showed our Minster Muscle of Empathy. In between all the Christmas fun, the children still worked hard in all of their other lessons, impressing us particularly with their writing in Literacy and creative skills in DT where we made a cam mechanism. All the staff are incredibly proud of all the children achieved this term and we are sure this will continue into 2025!
We wish you all a very Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
The Year 5 Team
Welcome to Term 2
Term 2 is another busy term in Year 5 with all the Christmas activities, including the Christmas concert, Santa’s grotto, Christmas Dinner Day and more!
This term one class will be going swimming, with the other classes having the chance in later terms. Some children also have the chance to complete the Bikeability course, helping them to be safer when riding their bikes on the road.
In Literacy, we will be immersing ourselves in the chapter book ‘Floodland’, a story from a child’s perspective in which the world has flooded and she must battle to survive. In Numeracy we will continue to look at the 4 operations, focussing on division and multiplication in particular. In Topic, we will spend the first week celebrating Black History and looking at a prominent figure – Nelson Mandela. We will then move onto learning about the Anglo-Saxons, looking at how and why they invaded and the way in which they lived.
The expectations of AR, TTRS and spellings will continue this term. Lots of children met their targets or earned certificates last term, we look forward to that happening again this term!
The Year 5 Team
Wow, already we have completed our first term on Year 5 and what an amazing term it has been!
It has been a busy term with getting back into the expectations and routines of school, but you have all worked so hard and impressed us with how motivated you have been. We have seen lots of Minster Muscles being flexed and lots of children striving to ‘be the best they can be’.
A particular highlight of the term was our trip to Queenborough where we visited the Guildhall Museum, the Harbour and a local church giving us the opportunity to bring together our Topic and Art for the term.
We hope you all have a rest of this half term, you certainly all deserve it!
The Year 5 Team
Welcome to Year 5!
We hope you have had a lovely summer holidays making lots of memories with the your family and friends.
We are looking forward to getting to know you all, help you settle into Year 5 and start our learning journey.
This term our Literacy is based on the text ‘Zoo’ by Anthony Browne, a story which has more to it than first meets the eye. In Numeracy we will be recapping our knowledge and understanding of place value as well as addition and subtraction. Our first Topic as always is looking at a local area, in Year 5 this is Queenborough, where we will be finding out about the history of the area including where its name came from and the Dutch invasion.
In Year 5, we will continue to focus on AR, TTRS and spellings as the weekly homework expectations, with certificates being rewarded each week for all your efforts. Weekly spelling sheets will be sent home in order for you to practice ready for your spelling test each Monday.
We look forward to an exciting, busy and successful year where we hope everyone will show that they are ‘the best that they can be’!
The Year 5 Team
