Welcome to Year 5!

with

Miss MacSween, Mrs McFetridge.

Please remember to make sure you are signed up to Class Dojo to see what we have been learning about in class.

In Maths, we will be focussing on, revising and deepening our understanding of the 4 operations of numbers, i.e. +, -, x, ÷.  

We will continue to focus on the speed and accuracy of our mental maths skills, our knowledge of our times tables, and using and applying our maths in problem solving and reasoning situations. 

In English, we will be focussing on 'Journeys' and how they are represented in story.  We will be looking at classic and contemporary fiction and poetry.  Our first text will be the graphic novel 'The Arrival' by Shaun Tan.

In writing, we will be looking at new types of punctuation such as hyphens, semi-colons and colons. There will be a greater emphasis on grammar features too, for example using modal verbs (these are words like would, could, might and must).

In World Knowledge, our theme will be 'The Journey', deepening our geography, history and citizenship skills. 

We will investigate where we fit into the world (see graphic below), and how the view of journeys, and the reasons that people take journeys, has changed over time.

Useful websites:

Maths

• http://www.mathletics.com
• http://www.crickweb.co.uk/ks1numeracy.html
• http://www.crickweb.co.uk/ks2numeracy.html
• https://www.topmarks.co.uk/learning-to-count/underwater-counting
• https://www.topmarks.co.uk/ordering-and-sequencing/chinese-dragon-ordering 
• http://www.primarygamesarena.com
• www.mathszone.co.uk 
• http://www.math-exercises-for-kids.com
• www.subtangent.com 
• https://www.mathplayground.com/
• http://www.primaryhomeworkhelp.co.uk/maths
• http://www.theschoolrun.com/primary-numeracy-glossary-for-parents

English

• BBC Spellits (Spelling games) (KS2)
• BBC Bitesize (Spelling and grammar) (KS2)
• Arcademic Skill Builders (Literacy and maths games) (KS1 & KS2)
• Crickweb (Literacy and maths educational games) (KS2)
• Kids Spell (Create your own spelling lists & games) (KS1 & KS2)
• Fun Brain (Maths, reading and spelling games) (KS1 & KS2)
• Learning Games for Kids (Spelling and word games) (KS1 & KS2)
• Eduplace.com (Levelled spelling and vocabulary games) (KS1 & KS2)
• PrimaryGames.com (Spelling rules, incl. vowels, blends, plurals etc) (KS1 & KS2)
• ICT Games.com (Look, cover, check game) (KS1 & KS2)
• The Times Spelling Bee (Listen to a word and spell it) (KS2) (14 day trial: £1)
• Manythings.org (Aimed at ESL students but includes useful spelling & vocabulary games) (KS2)
• Spelling city (Vocabulary and spelling interactive activities, printable worksheets, games) (KS2)

Please let Miss MacSween know if you have any other useful websites to add to the list!

You may also wish to take a look at our 'hook' video - this is the very first thing we'll watch to inspire our learning.