Year Five Curriculum - Spring 2020

Year Five Dates for the Spring Term

Christmas is coming!

This has been a very exciting week in Year Five.  In maths, we used Number Link boards to help us apply our knowledge of the 1-12 times tables to harder times tables (like the 0.04 times table, or the 7000 time table).

On Wednesday, we had a great time hunting for our Pokémon non-chronological reports in the playground.  All our work can be read on our class blogs:

Level 5 Certificate

5AC:   http://cjs5ac.edublogs.org/
5EV:   http://5evwonderwall.home.blog/
5MH:  http://5mhmasterwriters.100wc.net/
5SF:    http://5sfcjs.edublogs.org/

Some people even managed to get to be a Level Five Pokémon trainer because they found every single one.

The Boat Race tutorial

We have been working hard to finish our Scratch games, taking some time to try out the Boat Race Tutorial on the Code Club website to help us with our coding.  We also explored what life would be like as a mountain climber by creating our own short play or mime about a famous expedition.

On Friday, it was Christmas Decoration Day!  It was really good fun talking and writing about Christmas adverts, solving maths puzzles about Santa's stocking and making a range of decorations for the classroom.  The best bit was getting to wear our Christmas jumpers and listen to Christmas songs while we worked.

This week in Year 5 (18th-22nd November)

This week in Year 5

18th-22nd November

Monday

On Monday 5AC and 5EV glazed their clay pots and we explored more about how mountains are formed.

Tuesday

On Tuesday, 5EV did science and started to learn about the water cycle. 5AC also did science.

Wednesday

On Wednesday, the girls football team had training, 5EV also did P.E and 5SF did netball.

Thursday

On Thursday 5AC and 5EV did French. 5SF did their own warm-ups in outdoor P.E. 5MH  looked at a discussion on school uniform and both 5SF and 5MH had a discussion about whether Pokémon cards should be banned or not.

Friday

On Friday 5AC did science in which they cleaned out dirty water for Camp Bestival and 5SF learned more about factors.

         

This Week In Year Five

This Week In Year Five

In Year Five this week, we have been doing a lot of fun things. In English, we designed our very own Pokémon, leading to writing a non-chronological report about our Pokémon.  We can’t wait until the Pokémon Go event!

In maths, we started learning about statistics. We looked at how to read and create our own bar graphs and line graphs, and we solved some tricky Barvember problems with help from the bar model.

We carried on creating our games in computing, and learnt some fascinating facts about mountains and volcanoes in geography.  5AC and 5EV also had their last yoga lesson.  This was fantastic, but we’re sad the lessons are over.  We ended the week by thinking about how we can be kinder to one another.

We had a lot of fun!

Creating our own Pokémon

Some of the tricky problems we've looked at.

Nearly Half Term!

This week in Year 5 we have done so many exciting things like writing about ‘The Piano’ and 5SF made clay pots inspired by Kate Malone. We also did fun things in P.E like yoga, netball and football. We did missing number problems in maths. We learnt some very interesting facts in geography, PSHE and history. 

An Arty, Maths-Filled Week

On Monday morning, Year Five were completing tests to show what we know. We completed a spelling test, a maths reasoning paper and a grammar and punctuation paper.

Some classes were making coil pots and needed to bring in an inspirational object to make them. The artist that inspired us to make the pots is Kate Malone.

We also did some fun maths about adding prices and working out the price of a families holiday as well as adding up prices for customers at TGI Friday’s. We were also learning about voice overs and different sentence types so we watched a no-speaking piano piece. Different classes were doing different P.E lessons such as rugby, netball and football.

Hotseating

Busy exploring the thoughts and emotions of the main character in The Piano.  The questions have been crafted into a fingerprint to create a beautiful piece of work before being used to interrogate various members of the class.

Ella F.

West End in Schools

Our Visit from the West End

On Thursday 3rd October 2019, a visitor from the West End came and taught us about acting. We had fun performing scenes from the Shakespeare play Twelfth Night. 

Dianna from West End in Schools came to visit us and we practised scenes from the play to perform for the other Year Five classes and the teachers. 

It was fun but nerve wracking when we performed it to the rest of Year Five. 5MH performed freeze frames, 5AC performed Malvolio being bullied by Feste, 5SF performed Malvolio prancing in yellow tights with cross gartered laces and 5EV performed the big duel between Sir Andrew and Cesario (Viola).

We had tons of fun learning about acting and performing for our friends!  

Year Five Bloggers

A Look into Our Learning

Making the most of the fantastic library.

Writing letters to our future selves.

Solving the Mad Hatter's problems with his seating plan.

Investigating multiples and common factors.

Answering questions about a newspaper report. 

Exploring place value using base ten blocks.

Shakespeare Research

 

Some great examples of the Shakespeare research completed ahead of studying Twelfth Night.

First Week in Year Five

This week in Year Five we've had loads of fun!  We sketched birds as pretty as a picture and had a competition to see which group could build the highest self-standing tower out of colourful Lego.  All the classes had fun trying out cup stacking, and we learnt how to make a curve out of straight lines.  We've also had fun reading Shakespeare's Twelfth Night.  Lastly, we did some GoNoodle, and that got us up and moving.  The first week in Year Five has been absolutely amazing!

The Year Five Bloggers

 

Autumn Home Learning Information for Year Five

This coming year, the home learning expectations are as follows:

Each week, there will be  either a written or online (TTRs/MyMaths) task set. These will link to End of Key Stage Expectations for arithmetic or reasoning. (20 minutes)

Weekly, we will set a grammar and punctuation activity to consolidate our work in class. (20 minutes)

In school, we have a weekly focus on learning and practising  a spelling rule. A list of spellings to learn that follow the week's rule will be provided. (20 minutes)

Children should read on a daily basis. Renaissance Home Connect enables parents to see information about your child's progress within Accelerated Reader.

Home learning will be set on a Thursday and will be due in the following Tuesday. Home learning will begin on Thursday 12th September. 

Anyone unable to access the internet at home can do so during a Friday or Monday lunchtime in school.

Class teachers will let their class know the day of the week spelling tests will take place. 

We subscribe to:
Accelerated Reader
My Maths
Times Table Rock Stars

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Year Five Dates for This Term

September 2019
2nd	Training Day One
3rd	Term One Begins
3rd – 6th	Open Door Week
9th	Home Learning Begins
12th	Clubs Fayre
20th	Jeans for Genes Day
21st	International Day of Peace
24th – 2nd	Life Education Mobile
25th	#AskCJS
26th	European Day of Languages
27th	Macmillan Coffee Morning
30th	Clubs Begin
October
2nd	Y5 IoW Parent Meeting
2nd	Walk to School Day
3rd	Open Day
4th	Individual Photograph Day
4th	Y5 West End in Schools
11th	Celebration Assembly One
14th – 16th	PCLRs (No Home Learning / Staff Clubs)
21st – 25th	Half Term
28th	Term Two Begins
November
6th	Dads Who Read Library Event
10th	World Science Day
11th	Remembrance Day
11th	Y3 to Y6 Immunisation
11th – 15th	Anti-Bullying Week
15th	Children in Need
18th – 22nd	Road Safety Week
20th	Children’s Day
20th	#AskCJS
22nd	Celebration Assembly Two
29th	Edinburgh Bonus Day (St Andrew’s Day)
December
4th	Y5 Pokemon Go Event
6th	Christmas Decoration Day
6th	Community Carols
10th	Y3 Perform Nativity to Rest of School
11th	Y3 Perform Nativity to Rest of School
16th	Panto
16th – 20th	No Home Learning
17th	Carols at St Mary’s
18th	Instrumental Concert
20th	Christmas Dinner
20th	Last Day

Year Five Curriculum - Autumn 2019

Year Five Curriculum - Summer 2019

Home Learning Information for Year Five

This coming term, the home learning expectations are as follows:

Each week, there will be  either a written or online (TTRs/MyMaths) task set. These will link to End of Key Stage Expectations for arithmetic or reasoning. (20 minutes)

Weekly, we will set a grammar and punctuation activity to consolidate our work in class. (20 minutes)

In school, we have a weekly focus on learning and practising  a spelling rule. A list of spellings to learn that follow the week's rule will be provided. (20 minutes)

Children should read on a daily basis. Renaissance Home Connect enables parents to see information about their child's progress within Accelerated Reader.

Home learning will be set on a Thursday and will be due in the following Tuesday. Home learning will begin on Thursday 25th April. 

On Wednesday 3rd July, children will meet their Year Six teacher for next year and the preparation work set that day will replace home learning for the final weeks of the year.

Anyone unable to access the internet at home can do so during a Friday or Monday lunchtime in the school library.

Weekly spelling tests will take place on a Thursday. 

We subscribe to:
Accelerated Reader
MyMaths
Times Table Rock Stars

3x3links.com/crosshalljunior