Welcome to Olive Class
During the Autumn term, we will be focusing on place value, all of the four operations (addition, subtraction, multiplication and division) and Statistics in Maths, including problem solving. The children will work on their individual Maths and English targets ensuring they are making excellent progress. In English will be working on Fiction. We will be using the text 'There's a Boy in the Girls' Bathroom' as a stimulus. Olive Class will complete a series of reading, writing and speaking activties based on this, as well as working on a range of grammar and spelling skills. In Science we will focus on Earth and Space, the children will have the chance to learn new knowledge as well as observe over time and conduct their own reserach to answer scientific questions. Our History focus this term will be the Romans. If you want to get a head start with your topic work, then click the Roman image.
Useful Information
PE sessions are on a Wednesday and Friday each week. Please ensure that full PE kits are in school every week.
Spelling lists go home every Monday, ready for a spelling test every Friday.
Mad about Maths challenges are updated every week on a Monday.
Homework will go out on a Monday and it is to be returned on a Friday.
Reading logs are checked each day. Please make sure that these are in school every day. Remember in Year 5, children are expected to read every day!
Please support your child by ensuring they complete all their homework tasks and hand them in each Friday.
Bike Right
The children in Olive Class have had their first day of Bike Right. They loved every moment of it and the instructors were very impressed by the children's behaviour. Friday 6th October will be the next session.
Useful Information
PE sessions are on a Wednesday and Friday each week. Please ensure that full PE kits are in school every week.
Spelling lists go home every Monday, ready for a spelling test every Friday.
Mad about Maths challenges are updated every week on a Monday.
Homework will go out on a Monday and it is to be returned on a Friday.
Reading logs are checked each day. Please make sure that these are in school every day. Remember in Year 5, children are expected to read every day!
Please support your child by ensuring they complete all their homework tasks and hand them in each Friday.
English
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This half term we will be looking at Fiction Texts. We will use the book 'There's a Boy in a Girls' Bathroom' to enhance learning, along with teaching the skills that are needed for the children to independently write their own amazing fiction stories.
The children will also get the chance to write for a purpose, as they will be sending their finished pieces to a real author.
The children will continue to learn a range of grammar skills. This half term they will focus on coordinating and subornating conjunctions, relatives clauses and expanded noun phrases.
Maths
We will be working on place value for numbers to 1 million and the children will be learning about Roman Numerals which links nicely to their HIstory Topic.
The children will also be learning the formal methods for all four of the operations. They will firstly learn the skills then be applying these skills to more complex problems.
Click on the link below to find thousands of problems for your children to solve at home.
Also we will improve our speed and fluency with mental maths. Remember to choose a challenge from your maths passport to practise every week to help improve your mental maths skills.
Here are some links for games to help improve your mental maths skills.
Push the Button - times tables, doubles and halves and number bonds.
Loop Cards - addition and subtraction facts, doubles and halves and times tables.
Woodlands Junior - lots of different maths games to improve your mental maths.
Topic
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In our topic work, we will be learning about the Romans. Our topic work is very much child led, the children will have the opportunity to research the past using the internet, a range books, visiting a museum and looking at artefacts. This terms challenege question is:
- How did people from the past shape the world we know today?
In Science, the children will be learning about Earth and Space. They will use research to describe the movement of the Earth and other planets. Also they will be planning and carry out investigations to answer their own scientific questions based on shadows over time.
PE- Gymnastics
Computing/DT -'Game Makers' unit
Music- 'Don't Stop Believing'- Singing unit
RE-Hinduism
