Spring 5

Welcome to Spring 5 !.

P.E Days = Wednesdays and Fridays

Homework Expectations

We’re excited to share how you can support your child’s learning at home each week. These activities are designed to be simple, enjoyable, and effective in helping your child grow in confidence and ability.

Emile App – Maths & Spellings
Each week, your child will receive home learning tasks through the Emile app, focusing on key maths skills and spelling practice. Your child has their own login and can access the activities from home. It’s a fun and interactive way to reinforce what they’ve learned in class!

Reading – 10 Minutes a Day
Reading together for just 10 minutes a day can make a big difference. It helps build a love for stories, strengthens vocabulary, and improves comprehension. Whether it’s a bedtime story or a quick read after dinner, every minute counts!

Spellings
New spellings will be sent home every Monday, with a short test on Friday. Practising these regularly helps your child become a more confident writer.

Talk Homework – Building Sticky Knowledge
Each week, your child will bring home 3–4 key facts they’ve learned in class. These are part of our “Sticky Knowledge” approach. Talking about these facts with you helps your child remember them and improves their speaking and listening skills.

Thank you for your continued support. Together, we can make learning meaningful and enjoyable for your child!

Our Curriculum this half term

As Writers , we will be developing our storytelling skills by using fronted adverbials for when and where events happen, as well as using interesting -ly sentence openers. These techniques will help us create exciting, imaginative stories that capture our readers' attention.

As Mathematicians, we will be learning about Place Value and how to read and write 5- and 6-digit numbers. We will also build our confidence in addition and subtraction skills through problem-solving and practical activities.

As Readers, we’ll be developing key reading skills such as retrieval, vocabulary building, and inference. We’ll explore a wide range of fiction and non-fiction texts, helping us to become thoughtful, confident, and curious readers.

Our class novel, The Boy Who Met a Whale by Nizrana Farook, is an exciting adventure story set on the beautiful coast of Sri Lanka. As Razi, a young fisher boy, embarks on a thrilling journey involving friendship, bravery and a magnificent blue whale, he discovers the importance of helping others, protecting the natural world and believing in himself

 

We’re also thrilled to continue our Reading for Pleasure initiative! Each child will be encouraged to read all the books in the Year 5 Reading Spine by the end of the academic year. These carefully chosen books are designed to inspire a lifelong love of reading and spark meaningful conversations at home and in school.

As Scientists, we will investigate different ways of separating mixtures, including sieving, filtering and evaporation. We will carry out exciting experiments and discover how these methods help us separate materials in everyday life

In PE, we will be developing our cricket skills with a coach from Lancashire Cricket Club and learning how to improve our batting, bowling and fielding. We will also be building our football skills through teamwork, ball control and exciting games

 

In PSHRE, we will learn about respecting ourselves and others, building positive friendships and understanding different family relationships. We will also explore how to stay safe and make responsible choices in a range of situations.

 

In Art, we will learn about the elements of art and explore the work of Vanessa Gardiner, who is famous for her cityscapes and landscapes. We will use a range of mixed media techniques to create our own colourful and imaginative landscape artwork

 

As Deep Thinkers in RE, we will learn about Christianity and explore what Christians believe about God, sin and forgiveness. We will discover these ideas through the story of Adam and Eve and by learning about the Lord’s Prayer

 

 

In Computing, we will learn how to use different search engines effectively and understand how computer systems help us in our everyday lives. We will also develop our digital skills by learning how to find information safely and responsibly online

In History, we will explore the fascinating world of the Anglo-Saxons and investigate the clues and treasures discovered at Sutton Hoo. We will use evidence from the past to learn how people lived and why Sutton Hoo is one of Britain's most important historical discoveries