Welcome to Year 5
“One child, one teacher, one book, one pen… can change the world.” – Malala Yousafzai
Miss Waite
Y5 Class Teacher, RE Coordinator, Music Coordinator, Collective Worship Coordinator
Miss Quenby
Teaching Assistant
Year 5 Prayer Table
Long Term Curriculum Overview
To find out more about our Year 5 curriculum, please look at the jigsaw below.
Year 5 Long Term Curriculum Overview
Burn2Learn
Physically Active Learning
Year 5 Curriculum Newsletters
Y5 Autumn 1 2020-21 Newsletter Y5 Autumn 2 2020-21 Newsletter Y5 Spring 1 2020-21 Newsletter Y5 Spring 2 2020-21 Newsletter
Year 5 Half Term Overviews
Y5 Half Term Overview Autumn 1 2020-21 Y5 Half Term Overview Autumn 2 2020-21 Y5 Half Term Overview Spring 1 2020-21
Academic Year 2020/2021
Welcome back to school!! I hope you have enjoyed your summer holiday and you’re ready for a brilliant year in Year 5! I am super excited to be welcoming you back into school and into your brand new class in Year 5. I can’t wait to get to know you all better and have some fun. We have some great things planned for Year 5 so I hope you can start to feel excited for the year ahead. I am sure that once you are back through the doors, it will feel like you have never been away. We will have lots of time as a class to settle back into school life, to help you reconnect with the friends that you perhaps haven’t seen in some time and to also get back into learning in a classroom environment. I have heard such great things about you all and how you are such a great class to teach so I can’t wait to see that for myself!
I will do everything I can this year to make sure you are all happy, confident, engaged and active learners and that you embrace all the opportunities that Year 5 brings. This of course includes some more responsibilities which I am sure you are all up for the challenge of!
The Year 5 curriculum will be tailored to engage the children in their learning, build on the their interests, make links to their previous learning in other years as well as to their role in the community of Wetherby, and the wider world itself. The children will be encouraged to be active, resilient and ambitious learners, aiming for the very best they can achieve academically, personally and spiritually. There will be experiences built in along the way to inspire learning and to inspire the children for their future roles as active citizens. All the children will be able to succeed and thrive by giving their very best efforts!
Keep checking our class web page, as very soon, it will start to fill up with all of the fun learning we get up to in Year 5!
School Trips, Visits and Workshops
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Y5/6 Statutory Spellings
Please encourage your children to practise these compulsory Year 5 and 6 spellings, these are essential and should be practised alongside weekly spellings.
Y5 & Y6 Statutory Spellings
At St Joseph’s, we are so grateful for the invaluable support that our parents and carers provide for our pupils. We know how well our families have been able to adapt to home learning so now that we can welcome all of our pupils back to school, we wanted to provide opportunities for our pupils to continue their learning at home, if they choose to. The homework given will prepare and support your child’s learning across the curriculum each half term. The homework tasks below are optional. If you would also like to read our homework policy, please follow the link below.
Homework Policy 2020-22Please follow the links below to access our online learning platforms that are used for homework. Weekly tasks are set on Spelling Shed, Mathletics and SPAG Online.
Spring Term Homework
To help you with your learning this half term, here are some optional homework tasks and resources/activities for you to complete. I can’t wait to see your work that you complete at home!
Spring Term Homework Grid
Autumn Term
To help you with your learning this term, here are some optional homework tasks and resources/activities for you to complete. I can’t wait to see your work that you complete at home!
Year 5 Autumn 1 Homework Grid
Resources to support optional homework tasks
Remember to stay safe online and to STOP, BLOCK and TELL if you see something that makes you feel uncomfortable!
RE
Here are some links to help you with the grid task above. You might want to conduct your own research in to St. Francis.
St Francis of Assisi – Catholic Online Biography: St Francis of Assisi Franciscan Media: St Francis of Assisi
English
To support you with your learning this half term in English, you will find some activities linked to spelling, grammar, punctuation and reading.
Spellings
Here are the Y3/4 statutory spellings. Y3/4 Statutory Spellings
Here are the Year 5/6 statutory spellings. Y5/6 Statutory Spellings
Grammar & Punctuation
BBC Bitesize has lots of useful clips, activities and videos to help you with your learning in Year 5. These can help to embed previous learning or become more confident with concepts you will be taught this half term.
BBC Bitesize: KS2 Grammar Links BBC Bitesize: KS2 Spelling LinksReading
Our class text this half term will be: Who Let the Gods Out
Click on the link below to find the first chapter to read. We will be reading this together in class too.
Who Let the Gods Out – Extract Chapter One
Maths
Times tables are key in your learning in Maths! I know these were something you worked hard on in Year 4 so now it’s time to keep that bubbling and keep on top of your times tables. Below are some activities you will find useful to help you with practising them.
Top Marks Games Timestables.co.uk Oxford Owl Times Tables Activities and GamesHere are some games you could download, print and play as a family too.
3x tables 4x tables 5x tables 6x tables 7x tables 8x tables 9x tables 10x tables 11x tables 12x tables Mixture of times tables Times Tables Dice GamePlease use the link below to check your learning and knowledge of times tables. You will be able to see how your score and time improves each time.
Maths Frame Times Table CheckShape
Here are some guides and worksheets to support you with the grid task above.
3D Shape Posters 3D Shape Properties 3D Shape Matching Cards Activity Worksheet[/button]
Geography
These links below will help you to complete the grid task.
Science
I hope you enjoy creating the model to show the Earth and Moon’s orbit. Here is a worksheet that will help you to create it – or you could try it free hand!
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- Scientific Diagram to Show Orbit
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- Model to Show Orbit
History
If you would like to learn more about Ancient Greece (our topic for the next full term!), there are some great videos, clips and activities on BBC Bitesize all about the Greeks! Just follow the link below.
BBC Bitesize: Ancient GreeceYou could also watch this compilation of the Groovy Greeks from the Horrible Histories programme. This is always a good one to watch – it’s fun and you will be learning at the same time!