Welcome to Year 5!

Contact:

5LB (Mrs Broad) - lbroad@redhill.worcs.sch.uk

5PB (Mrs Ballinger) - pballinger@redhill.worcs.sch.uk 

Summer Term

English

English writing text 1: Shackleton’s Journey

Purpose: To persuade, entertain and discuss

In this writing sequence we will be writing a letter of application for the journey,  writing a diary entry from the shipmates perspective and writing a newspaper article about Shackleton’s amazing journey. Some of the skills we will focussing on are:

• Conscious control of tenses to indicate past and present
• Use of direct and indirect speech
• Colons to link related clauses
• Indicate character’s feelings through description

English writing text 2: The Island

Purpose: To entertain

In this writing sequence we will have a strong focus on selecting rich vocabulary to write effective character descriptions as part of our narrative from a character’s perspective. To produce high quality narratives, will also be consciously selecting writing devices for effect such as similes and personification and use show not tell to indicate inference.

English writing text 3: Malala Yousafzai

Purpose: To persuade

In this writing sequence we will be writing a persuasive speech inspired by her Nobel Peace Prize speech. Again, we will have a strong focus on vocabulary and using writing devices such as rehetorical questions to speak directly to the readers.

 

Maths

Statistics – Skill Focus: Read, interpret and draw tables.

Shape – Skill Focus: Classifying, estimating and measuring angles, regular and irregular polygons and 3D shapes.

Position and direction – Skill Focus: Plotting coordinates, translation and symmetry.

Decimals – Skill Focus: Add and subtract decimals up to 3.d.p.

Negative Numbers – Skill Focus: Identify, compare and order negative numbers.

Converting Units – Skill Focus: To convert units of mass, length and time.

Volume – Skill Focus: Estimate and compare volume and capacity.

Guided Reading text:

Shackleton’s Journey – William Grill

The Unforgotten Coat – Frank Cottrell Boyce

During our guided reading sessions we will provide the children with opportunities to read aloud and practice reading with expression. Children will also have a series of questioning focusing on the reading VIPERS.

V = Vocabulary

I = Inference

P = Predict

E = Explain

R = Retrieval

S = Sequence or Summarise

 

Religious Education:

Our key question for the Summer 1: Why is the Torah so important to Jewish people? 

In this topic we will be exploring Jewish beliefs about God, give examples of some texts that say what God is like and explain how Jewish people interpret them.

Our key question for the Summer 2:  What matters most to Humanist and Christians?

In this topic we will identify and explain beliefs about why people are good and bad (e.g. Christian and Humanist) and make links with sources of authority that tell people how to be good.

 

Enrichment Opportunities this half-term:

TBC

 

PE and Forest School for Summer 1

Our indoor PE session will take place on Wednesday. This half term is Dance.

Forest School will take place on Thursday. Please send your child to school in their own clothing, which is appropriate for being out in our forest school area. Please ensure that spare footwear or welly boots come into school in a named bag.

 

For further information regarding the foundation subjects, please see the Summer 1 Red Hill Riches.