Welcome to Year 5
What a wonderful week we have had in Year 5! The children had the opportunity to visit St Constantine and St Helen Church and take part in a service. This was a fantastic follow-up to one of our RE lessons from last week, in which the children learned about how new churches are established. During the lesson, they also researched the history of our beloved church, St Constantine and St Helen Church, helping them to deepen their understanding of its importance within our local community and faith journey.
In Maths, the children continued working through the unit Converting Units. This has been a challenging area of learning, but the children have really impressed us with their ability to make connections to other maths units studied throughout the year. They have shown increasing confidence when applying their knowledge and reasoning skills to a range of problems.
To further support and consolidate their learning from the past two weeks, the children will receive some additional practice work. This is not something that needs to be handed in; rather, it is intended to provide extra opportunities for the children to strengthen their understanding and develop their problem-solving strategies at their own pace.
Please click the link below to access this week’s home learning:
This is the final week for spellings.
Please encourage your child to use, mastery zone to continue targeted practice :
English
We planned and wrote a free verse poem titled “Isn’t Life Wonderful?”, exploring our ideas and creativity through expressive language.
Maths
We continued our unit on converting units. This week, we focused on converting units of length and working between metric and imperial measurements.
RE
In RE, we learned about how the Church spreads to new places and the ways its message is shared around the world.
Science
We completed our unit on the human timeline. In our final lessons, we explored the changes that occur during puberty and learned about the gestation period.
Home learning
Y5 Home Learning 26.06.26
This weeks spellings: L35 – Revision Words
Mrs Richards
English
This week, we continued reading the core text ‘Cloud Busting’. We explored free verse and wrote a poem on a theme from the text.
Maths
This week, we completed the last step of ‘negative numbers’ unit: Find the difference. We then started a new unit ‘converting units’, we covered: kilograms and kilometres, millimetres and millilitres.
RE
This week, we focused on how the church grows by helping others. We made lists of ways we can help others in the community.
History
English
This week, we finished our video adverts and then moved on to our new unit on poetry. Our class text is Cloud Busting by Malorie Blackman. It is a very interesting novel, written entirely in verse.
Maths
This week, we completed the final step in our decimals unit, focusing on dividing by 10, 100, and 1,000. We then began a new unit on negative numbers.
Science
This week, we started a new unit called Human Timeline. In our first lesson, we explored the different developmental stages and key milestones in the human life cycle.
RE
In the second lesson, we began the unit The Church Grows in the World. We studied the life of St Ignatius and the role of the Bishop in helping the Church grow through unity and courage. This was a meaningful continuation following our observation of the feast of Pentecost and the birth of the Church.
History
This week, we began our unit on the Tudors, focusing on different representations of Henry VIII. We evaluated a range of sources and considered the reliability of each one.
Home learning
This weeks spellings: L33 – Revision Words.
Additionally, a list of words has been provided in class, highlighting key vocabulary that your child needs to practise, over the next few weeks.
Mrs Richards
English
Over the last two weeks, we have created print adverts and written scripts for the video adverts for our products. We look forward to recording them in the first week back – it takes a lot to promote a winning product!
A few examples of our print adverts:
Maths
We continued to focus on the following steps in the unit decimals; add decimals with different numbers of decimal places, subtract decimals with different numbers of decimal places and multiply by 10, 100 and 1,000.
RE
We focused on how funerals can both differ and share similarities across different worldviews.
Science
We were designing and building simple pulley systems and exploring the effects of levers and gears.
Geography
We ended the week, with a field trip linked to our topic on marine environments.
We saw a variety of birds; Mallard ducks, Canadian Geese, Coots (just to name a few). We also completed tally charts to record the litter in the environment. We completed reports and made recommendations to protect the lake.
Home learning
This weeks spellings: List 32 – Challenge Words
Have an enjoyable half term,
See you for Summer 2.
Mrs Richards
This week…
English
At the start of the week, we created and recorded a radio advert.
Later in the week, we began planning ideas for our own product, which we will use in future advert campaigns.
Maths
In the unit position and direction, we learnt about:
- translation
- translation using coordinates
- lines of symmetry
- reflection in horizontal and vertical lines
RE
We started a new unit about beliefs about what happens when we die.
We:
- explored how beliefs about the soul influence ideas about the afterlife
- discussed what purgatory means to different people
Science
We learned about friction and how it helps to slow down or stop moving objects.
Geography
We explored ways to keep our oceans healthy and began planning a fieldwork investigation.
Home learning
Y5 Home Learning 15.05.26
This weeks spellings: L30 – Challenge Words – Homework Sheet
previous spellings: Lesson 29 – Words that are homophones or near homophones
Mrs. Richards
This week…
In English, we started the week, completing our published survival guide. Then we moved on to a new unit; advert campaign. In our initial lessons, we reviewed print based adverts and video adverts; identifying the features and the effect on the audience.
In Maths, we finished the unit on shape and began the next unit; position and direction.
In RE, we focused on Mecca as a special place for Muslims.
In Science, we learnt about water resistance and its effects. We also worked scientifically to create a table to collect the data.
In Geography, we focused on the impact humans have on the coral reef.
Next week; we need cardboard boxes for our art.
Home learning
This weeks spellings: Lesson 29 – Words that are homophones or near homophones
previous spellings 01.05.26 Words that are homophones or near homophones
Mrs. Richards
This week…
In English, we focused on using colons to introduce a list and to draw the readers attention, before moving on to plan an explanation text (survival guide). We then completed the drafting process, proofread and edited our guides.
In Maths, we focused on: calculating angles around a point, calculating angles on a straight line, lengths and angles in shapes and regular and irregular polygons.
In RE, we learnt about becoming Christians through baptism and Chrismation and forgiveness through repentance.
In Science, we learnt about air resistance and its effects. We also worked scientifically to plan a fair test to investigate air resistance.
In Geography, we focused on locating and describe the significance of the Great Barrier Reef.
Next week; we need cardboard boxes for our art.
Home learning
This weeks spellings: 01.05.26 Words that are homophones or near homophones
previous spellings Words that are homophones – Homework Sheet
Enjoy the Bank Holiday weekend,
Mrs. Richards
Welcome back!
This week in year 5…
Maths
We started a unit on shapes; understanding and using degrees, classifying angles, estimating angles, measuring angles up to 180° and drawing lines and angles accurately.
English
We started a unit on explanation texts. Our core text is ‘The Lost Book of Adventure’ edited by Teddy Keen.
RE
We started a unit on Sacraments and Orthodox Families. In the lessons this week, we learnt about how God unites people in marriage and that children are a gift from God.
Science
We started a unit on ‘Unbalanced Forces’. In the first lesson we learnt to how to define gravity and its effects.
Home Learning
Words that are homophones – spellings for next week
Mrs. Richards