Welcome to the St Matthew's Primary School Year 5 Class Page

Together, we work hard and try our best.  We work hard to improve our work in all areas and nurture our own learning and that of our classmates through collaborative and group work.  We love all of the curriculum but some of our favourite subjects are Maths, Science, Art and PE.

PE

Our PE days are Tuesday and Wednesday.  On Tuesday the PE session is swimming so we will be walking to Grand Central Pools.  Wednesday the children will be working with the PE coaches.

What will your child be learning?

This term in English we will be looking at the texts ‘When we walked on the moon’ and ‘FArTHER’.  We will be exploring the text through discussion, drama and writing.  We will be producing newspaper reports, science reports, diary entries and descriptive pieces of writing.  Mrs Simon will also be reading some stories to us such as ' 

In Maths we will be looking at place value of numbers up to 1,000,000.  This will involve the manipulation of numbers and understanding the value of these great big numbers.  We will be able to add and subtract these numbers as well as round numbers and work out approximate answers by estimation. We will be moving on to multiplication and division and look at the terms ‘multiple’ and ‘factor’. We will start to look at fractions and be able to calculate equivalent fractions and simplest forms.  The children all have a log in for TTRockstars and can access this at home at www.ttrockstars.com.

In Science, we will be looking at the topic of Earth and Space.  We will be learning about the planets in our solar system and how the planets orbit the Sun.  We will discover why we have night and day and why we have different seasons.  After half term we will be moving on to look at Forces, including, friction, gravity, air resistance and water resistance.  Over these two topics we will be conducting lots of practical work and investigations.

Our Humanities themes include ‘Rivers’ and ‘Ancient Maya’.  We will be finding out  about major world rivers and how rivers are formed.   We will be able to name the different parts of a river and know how these change over the course.  We will be going on a Rivers trip - more info to follow shortly.  

We will also be thinking about what life was like in the past in Mexico and be sharing chocolate treats with our cllassmates just as the Ancient Maya people did.

We will be making a trip to Chester Cathedral as the Pilgrims would have done and looking at the beautiful Cathedral which is central to our Diocesan Trust.  This will link to our RE topic which is all about Life's journeys and looks at how different faiths partake in Pilgrimages.

This year we will have some university students working with our class on a Schools Direct programme.  In the autumn term, Mr Lampard will be working in our class and will be teaching a lot of the lessons with Mrs Simon.

Thank you for all your support.

The Year 5 team - Mrs Simon, Miss Beard and Miss Brown

To support maths learning at home please visit the following sites:

Great website for times tables.  Children can compete against themselves, others and even the teachers (Mrs Beecher's Rockstar name is Gigi Twig for those that fancy challenging her!)  Children have their individual login  http://www.ttrockstars.com 

Lots of different games in all topics of maths  http://www.topmarks.co.uk/search.aspx?subject=16&agegroup=3

Questions targeted around year 5 targets. 1 day = 8 questions, answers and video tutorials included  http://myminimaths.co.uk/year-5-mini-maths/

5 questions a day, differing levels of ability  http://corbettmathsprimary.com/5-a-day/

A variety of questions split into different maths topics all targeting year 5 objectives  http://uk.ixl.com/math/year-5

Lots of reasoning and problem solving activities to get your brain thinking  http://nrich.maths.org/14536

To support literacy learning at home please visit the following sites:

A variety of questions, split into different literacy topics all targeting year 5 objectives  http://uk.ixl.com/ela/year-5

A large bank of pictures to inspire creative writing  http://www.onceuponapicture.co.uk

A large collection of videos, images and ideas to inspire creative writing  http://www. literacyshed.com/home.html