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Class 13 News

Miss Barrett 9 Jan 20 This afternoon, Class 13 enjoyed using split pins and elastic bands (representing Earth's gravitational pull) to show that wherever we are on Earth, we won't fall off! Mrs OFarrell 9 Jan 20 In RE, Year 5 have been exploring the concept of unity. We worked as part of a team to build the strongest bridge we could, which inspired us to create our own definitions of what unity means to us. Miss Barrett 12 Dec 19 Amazing Christmas cards, year 5! We love your individual watercolour designs. Miss Barrett 4 Dec 19 Class 13 had a fun-filled morning of learning and exercise at Brunton Park. They played some very fast paced invasion games, had a tour of the stadium and a PSHE lesson about inclusion. Thank you to the Carlisle United coaches! Miss Barrett 3 Dec 19 Class 13 enjoyed investigating which type of sugar dissolves fastest. They worked scientifically by controlling variables and using good observation skills to draw a conclusion. Great teamwork everyone! Miss Barrett 3 Dec 19 We enjoyed looking at a german war helmet last week whilst learning about the 'Christmas Truce'. Thank you to the child who brought this in to show! Miss Barrett 3 Dec 19 Thank you to our Mini Police for making us aware of 'county lines' and what we can do if we encounter a dangerous situation. Miss Barrett 18 Nov 19 Fantastic DT skills to showcase your knowledge of the water cycle, Class 13! Well done! Miss Barrett 17 Nov 19 Year 5 enjoyed dancing on Children in Need day in PE Miss Barrett 15 Oct 19 As part of the European Day of Memory and Welcome, yesterday we took part in a migration workshop. Children in years 4 and 5 were thinking about how we make people feel welcome in our school and in the United Kingdom.

This Term's Topics

Topic - Victorians

Science- Life Cycles/Separating Mixtures

DT - Mechanisms

PE - Gymnastics and Swimming

Welcome back after the Christmas break! We hope you all had a restful time with your families. We are super excited about the term ahead and have lots of interesting things planned.

Our new topic this term is 'The Victorians'. We plan to cover: Queen Victoria and her reign, poverty during this era, child labour and what it was like to live during this time period.

The following information gives an outline of our planned work for the summer term in Year 5. We look forward to sharing key learning opportunities with you!

Year 5 trip to Beamish- Thursday 13th March- More information to follow.

CURRICULUM
ENGLISH
Reading
Children in Year 5 will be encouraged to read a range of genres and may listen to and discuss a variety of stories, non-fiction texts, poetry, plays and textbooks in order to understand the structure of different texts and their purpose. They will be asked to make predictions, compare texts or make inferences from clues in texts.

Writing:
Children will learn how to identify the audience and select the correct writing style and tone. They will be expected to ensure writing flows well and ideas linked across paragraphs using adverbials of time, number, or place.
Pupils will be encouraged to regularly assess the effectiveness of their own writing and those written by others, focusing specifically on punctuation, grammar, vocabulary and spelling.

Spelling:
The National Curriculum for England spelling requirements for Year 5 include statutory spellings and common exception words. There are 360 words in total, so why not practise spelling and using one new word each day? There is a link to the full Year 5 and Year 6 Spelling List in the 'Downloads' section below.

MATHS:
Areas of study include:
• adding and subtracting numbers with more than four digits
• prime numbers, common multiples, cube and square numbers
• comparing, ordering and adding fractions with different denominators. Some may also learn how to multiply fractions.
• reading and writing fractions as decimals as well as practising rounding to two decimal places
• drawing angles and learning how to find missing angles
• converting from cm to m and g to kg, but also converting between metric and imperial measurements, such as miles to km
• learning the properties of shapes and calculating the area and perimeter of irregular shapes


SCIENCE:
This term will see us study and explore two new topics, 'Life Cycles' and 'Separating Mixtures'.

Life Cycles will cover describing the differences in the life cycles of a mammal, an amphibian, an insect and a bird, as well as describing the life process of reproduction in some plants and animals.

Separating Mixtures teaches children to discuss and separate a range of mixtures using the processes of sieving, filtration, magnetism, dissolving and evaporating.

PHYSICAL EDUCATION:
Our PE day is Thursday.
Every child will require a FULL PE kit (plain black shorts/tracksuit bottoms, PE T-shirt, and a change of trainers/plimsolls) in a named bag. Earrings must either be removed or tape provided.


There is plenty to look forward to in other subjects as well, including Art, Computing, Music, Languages and Design Technology...


CLASS 12
Mrs Martin - Monday
Mrs Wallace - Tuesday - Friday

CLASS 13
Mrs Martin - Tuesday
Mr Wilson - Monday, Wednesday-Friday

Senior Teaching Assistants
Mrs Bulman
Mrs Banks

Thank you for your continued support!

Year 5 email address
year5@rferguson.cumbria.sch.uk

Class 13 Home Learning

Homework:
The children will be given a homework grid with a wide range of activities centred around the topic of the term. We would ask them to complete one activity per fortnight and bring their completed homework in on a Friday.


Other activities that we encourage the children to complete at home are:

- Times Table Rockstars

- Doodle Maths

- Doodle English

- Doodle Times Tables

- Doodle Spell

- Learning Beck games

Please continue to support your child's progress in reading by hearing them read every day and asking them questions about what they have read.

We would love to see all the wonderful things you are doing at home. You can send photos, power points, pictures, etc to our class email address.

If you need any further information, resources or support then please speak to your class teacher.

Class 13 Weblinks

Maths Chase
The Maths Factor
CBBC Newsround
Tessellation - How to make a tessellation pattern
Tessellation - BBC Bitesize
Hawse End 2023 Information Class 13
Countdown
Tessellation Video - What is tessellation?
Times Table Rockstars
Free audio books