Year 5: Anning
Meet the team:
Class Teacher : Mr Major
Teaching Assistants : Miss Hughes, Mrs Miles
Anning Class
Welcome to Anning class! Here you will find important information about our class.
I hope everyone has had a relaxing break!
Firstly, I'd like to thank everyone for their lovely cards and gifts from the Christmas period. They were extremely kind!
It is going to be another busy and exciting term with a new topic and lots of learning taking place across the curriculum.
We will be launching into our new topic, Kensuke’s Kingdom with an Amaze Day focussing on team work, decision making and survival knowledge. Based on the book by Michael Morpurgo, this is primarily an art and science-based topic, involving a range of scientific investigations. Alongside this, we will be exploring shades and tints and producing a copy of the famous artist Hokusai's "The Wave". In design technology we will be learning about food preservation and in computing, we will be improving our PowerPoint skills.
Maths
In maths this term, we will continue our focus on multiplication and division before moving onto fractions, decimals and percentages. As well as consolidating written methods, we will be solving problems in contexts, deciding which operation and methods to use and why and also using estimation (rounding) and the inverse to check our calculations.
English
In guided reading, our learning is based around the book "Kensuke's Kingdom" by Michael Morpurgo.
In writing, we will be developing and applying key skills needed to write balanced arguments and diary extracts. Pupils will learn how to organise ideas clearly, present different viewpoints fairly, and support arguments with reasons and evidence. They will also explore writing in a role through diary entries, focusing on expressing thoughts and feelings, using appropriate tense, and selecting effective vocabulary. Key skills will include relative clauses, paragraphing, a range of sentence structures, conjunctions to link ideas and editing work to improve clarity and impact.
Important Class Information:
PE Days: Tuesdays and Thursdays. Children need to come to school wearing their PE kit.
Reading Books: reading books will be changed on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays.
Homework: A homework grid for this term is attached below.
Reading: Please continue to listen to your child read daily, even for 10 minutes, and encourage them to complete the reading task in the reading journal. Books should be changed regularly. Comprehension texts will continue to be set for the children to complete regularly on Rockerbox at home.
Times Tables: It is important all pupils are learning (and continue to practice) the timetables up to the 12 times table. These should be known by the end of year 4 but it is essential that the children continue to practice and recall these facts.
Regular practise on Times Tables Rock Stars (TTRS) helps pupils to retain knowledge and helps them to utilise these facts in other mathematical learning. Please encourage your child to log in regularly - even if only for a few minutes each time.
Useful websites for times table practise:
Thank you for your continued support. Please don't hesitate to contact us if you have any queries.
Key Dates:
Tuesday 6th January - Children return to school
Wednesday 7th January - Amaze Day to launch topic: Kensuke's Kingdom
Thursday 8th January & Monday 12th January - Art Sessions - please have an old art shirt in school
Friday 13th February - Break up at 3.15pm