Welcome back!

We hope you're looking forward to the half term ahead.

We hope that this page gives you and your families lots of information about some of the things we will be learning.

Parents/carers, if you have any questions please contact your child's class teacher at school or
e-mail: enquiries@anstonparkjuniors.co.uk 

Y5 Teachers

Mr Bradley - 5B

Mrs Dunsdon - 5D

Teaching Assistant 

Mrs Morton

Class Novels

Every day, we enjoy listening to a story.

This half term Year 5 are reading:

Cogheart by Peter Bunzl

Spring Term 2 - English Text

 This half term we will be focusing on the book 'The Darkest Dark' by Chris Hadfield.

We will be working towards writing a biography about Chris Hadfield using the information from the picture book text by the end of this half term.

Will explore how to use a variety of verb forms used correctly and consistently, use commas to clarify meaning or avoid ambiguity in writing, link ideas across paragraphs using adverbials and tense choices, use brackets, dashes or commas to indicate parenthesis and extend the range of sentences with more than one clause by using a wider range of conjunctions.

Spring Term - Medium Term Plan

See below for an overview of all we will be learning this half term. Scroll down for more detailed information on each subject.

Science

Earth and Space

During this unit, we will:

Describe the Sun, Earth and Moon as approximately spherical bodies.

Describe the movement of the Earth, and other planets, relative to the Sun in the solar system.

Describe the movement of the Moon relative to the Earth.

Use the idea of the Earth’s rotation to explain day and night and the apparent movement of the sun across the sky.

Key questions:

What planets make up our solar system alongside the Earth?

How do the Earth and other planets move relative to the Sun?

What is the relationship between the movement of the Moon and the movement of Earth?

How does day change into night?

Key vocabulary:

Earth, Sun, Moon, rotation, day, night, phases of the Moon, star, constellation, waxing, waning, crescent, gibbous, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, planets, solar system, day, night, rotate, orbit, axis, spherical, geocentric, heliocentric.

 Geography

Journeys – Where does all our stuff come from?

The UK imports goods from all over the world. The top five products imported by the UK are: petrol, cars, packaged medicaments, computers and vehicle parts. The top five import origins to the UK are Germany, China, Netherlands, USA and France.

In this unit, the children will find out about the UK’s global trade links, investigating where everyday products come from and the journeys they take to our homes. This builds on work children may have done in KS1 looking at the geography of food. The children will also map the journeys taken by items, and research the pros and cons of buying local or imported goods.

In this unit, the children will:

• describe and understand key aspects of human geography, including: types of settlement and land use, economic activity including trade links, and the distribution of natural resources including energy, food, minerals and water
• use maps, atlases, globes and digital/computer mapping to locate countries and describe features studied.

 Art

Drawing - Perspective, scale and proportion

Vincent Van Gogh & Salvador Dali

This unit on perspective builds on previous units on tone, shade, hatching, cross hatching, a knowledge of light and shade and contour drawing to produce a “true” image.

During this unit we will:

• Explore and be inspired by the work of Van Gogh
• Create some observational drawing 
• Explore drawing techniques 
• Explore Van Gogh techniques and artwork
• Plan, make and evaluate a final piece inspired by his work

In our other foundation subjects...

Computing - Programming A – Selection in Physical Computing

PSHE - Healthy Me

RE - How significant is it for Christians to believe that God intended Jesus to die?

Music - Enjoying Musical Styles & One Voice songs

French - Habitats

PE - Athletics (Running, Throwing & Jumping) & Swimming

PE

Please ensure that your child comes to school in their P.E. uniform on PE days. 

 Y5 PE days are currently:

5B - Tuesday (swimming) and Wednesday

5D - Tuesday (swimming) and Wednesday

 Indoor Kit =  plain white t-shirt, black shorts or tracksuit bottoms and suitable shoes (pumps or trainers). No football shirts or strips please.

Outdoor Kit = plain tracksuit bottoms and warm jacket and shoes suitable for all weathers (trainers)

Please remember that no jewellery should be worn and earrings MUST be removed by the child for any PE session. Long hair needs to be tied back.  

Homework Menu

As part of our wider curriculum topic, children can also choose to complete homework from our  homework menu (see below). This is optional, however, it will be enjoyable for the children and it will allow them to take their learning further and share it with you at home. Once any tasks have been completed please bring them into school and we will do our best to display as many of them as possible.

We would love to see how creative you can be and display your hard work for all to see. 

Times Tables

 It is still important to ensure that children in Y5 are secure and fluent with their times tables facts as they are needed in many aspects of the Y5 maths curriculum. Without the quick recall of these facts, maths learning becomes much more challenging as children need to work hard to recall the times table fact they need as well as work through new methods.

Below is a grid of the core multiplication facts we would like children to learn with quick recall and fluency. Once children know these facts, they can use them to work out any other facts (eg: knowing 2x and 10x tables means they can calculate 12x)

Please continue to support your child with learning these facts and encouraging them to play on Times Table Rock Stars also: https://ttrockstars.com/