Welcome to Year 5 Mrs Willatts Year 5

Welcome to Year 5 Mrs Willatts

Year 5: • Independence • Resilience • Persistence • Responsibility

Main Topics: Term 1: What Makes Scotland Scottish? Term 2: Home and Away Terms 3 and 4: Invasion! Term 5: What do we know about the Ancient Egypt Term 6: Water, water, everywhere!

Y 5 Curriculum: Maths • Written and mental methods. • Problem solving and mathematical reasoning. • Place value to 1, 000 and using the 4 operations on increasingly large numbers. • Learning to count forwards and backwards through 0, including negative numbers. • Square and cube numbers. • Reading and writing decimal numbers as fractions. • Identifying equivalent fractions. • Converting between metric and imperial measurements as well as between units of time.

Y 5 Curriculum: English • Studying a wide range of texts: fiction, poetry, plays and non-fiction. • Providing reasoned justifications for their opinions. • Independently reviewing, editing and improving their work using a range of strategies. • Summarising the main ideas from larger quantities of text and being able to retrieve, record and present information from nonfiction texts. • Selecting appropriate grammar and vocabulary, understanding how this can change and enhance the meaning of their compositions.

Timetable • Miss Townsend will teach Art and Design and Maths on Tuesday mornings. • Dr Johnson will be teaching Spanish on Wednesdays. In terms 3 and 5 he will also teach Philosophy. • PE will be on Thursdays and Fridays for term 1 and 2. Swimming is on Fridays in terms 1 and 2. • Children will be able to change their library books daily during morning or afternoon registration. • Homework is set on Fridays and due the following Friday. Spelling tests will be on a Friday.

How you can help at home: • Children are expected to read daily either independently or to an adult. • Help with rote learning such as spellings and number facts. • Support regular homework.

Kilve Court

If you have any questions, please feel free to come and speak to me now or arrange an appointment for another time. I am available before school and after school – please don’t leave little problems until they have become a big issue!