Transcript welcome-to-year

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Class teachers – Mrs Jackson & Mrs Amis
Teaching assistant – Mrs Cooke
*Year 5 is the beginning of Upper Key
Stage 2 and expectations are very
high.
*We have a wonderful year planned,
bursting with exciting lessons and
interesting topics, more of which will
be explained in termly newsletters.
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*English and Maths will be taught by
Mrs Jackson Monday – Thursday.
*There will be one day where an
additional Maths lesson will be
taught and another where an
additional English lesson will be
taught.
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* Reading (Word reading and
Comprehension) and
* Writing (Transcription:
spelling and handwriting;
and Composition:
articulating ideas and
structuring them)
* Within this area there is a
much greater emphasis on
the technical skills of
grammar, vocabulary and
punctuation.
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* Children are expected to read every night for 15
minutes. Please ensure that their reading book is
signed.
* Please take the time to talk to your child about
what they are reading – they could summarise what
has happened in a story, predict what they think
might happen next or regale you with interesting
facts from a non-fiction text!
* Guided reading takes place daily in the class.
* Discrete comprehension lessons take place weekly.
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* Spelling is taught twice a week on a Tuesday
and Wednesday.
* Spelling tests are given on a Monday morning.
* Handwriting is taught on Thursdays and
Fridays.
* We follow the PenPals scheme and the children
will be awarded a pen licence in line with the
school handwriting policy.
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Reading
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Use a range of strategies to identify the meaning of new vocabulary
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Provide reasoned justification for their views
Spelling & Handwriting
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Spell some words with ‘silent’ letters (e.g. knight, psalm, solemn)
Spell words with different endings (e.g. –ible, -able, -ence, -cious)
Write legibly, fluently and with increasing speed
Writing Composition
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Identify examples of effective description that evoke time or place commenting on both word
and sentence choice
Plan and write in a range of forms, taking account of different audiences and purposes
Use a range of conjunctions and adverbials to link, compare and contrast and extend ideas
Evaluate and edit by ensuring consistent and correct use of tense and ensuring correct subject
and verb agreement
Vocabulary, Grammar and Punctuation
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Use modal verbs or adverbs to indicate degrees of possibility (e.g. always, usually)
Use brackets, dashes, semi-colons and colons
Use relative clauses
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* Areas of Maths are divided into the following areas:
* Number – number and place value
* Number – addition and subtraction
* Number – multiplication and division
* Number – fractions (including decimals and
percentages)
* Geometry – properties of shapes
* Geometry – position and direction
* Statistics
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• Play times tables games.
• Play mental maths games including counting in different amounts,
forwards and backwards (including negative numbers).
• Encourage lots of opportunities for telling the time.
• Encourage opportunities for counting coins and money; finding amounts
or calculating change when shopping.
• Look for numbers on street signs, car registrations and anywhere else!
• Look for examples of 2D and 3D shapes around the home.
• Identify, weigh or measure quantities and amounts in the kitchen or in
recipes.
• Play games involving numbers or logic, such as dominoes, card games,
darts, draughts or chess.
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*Children will be taught Science once
a week by Mrs Jackson.
*Details regarding the unit to be
taught will be available on the
Curriculum Newsletter at the start of
each term.
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*Mrs Amis will teach the class on
Fridays.
*Music, RE, PSHE and Computing will
be taught each week on Friday.
*Topic, Art and DT are taught Monday
to Thursday.
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*Purple homework
* This is sent home every Thursday to be handed in
the following Monday.
* Children are expected to select their own level of
challenge – Mild, Spicy, Hot – with the option of
Challenger words, too.
* All children are expected to complete ten
sentences, each of which must contain one of their
spelling words.
* This year, the children should be writing complex
sentences which show off their understanding of
conjunctions, adverbials and relative clauses.
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*Times tables
*Children are expected to know by heart
multiplication facts up to 12 x 12 and
the associated division facts.
*Blank multiplication squares will be
stuck in the homework book for your
child to complete and record the time
it takes them.
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*Abacus
* We encourage three online activities per week.
* Activity is monitored and rewarded.
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*Red homework
* This is handed out on a Thursday to be returned to
share with the rest of the class the following
Thursday.
* It is then taken home again and brought back to
school again the next Monday for marking.
* This homework is based on what the children have
been learning about in class or may be research in
connection with their subjects.
* Please support your child with this homework but
let them show off their own work!
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* Children in Year 5 are expected to take on new
duties and responsibilities to reflect their
growing age and maturity.
* Jobs are undertaken in rota and all children
are expected to carry them out for the
duration of the week in which they are
allocated.
* Jobs include Fruit monitor, Toys monitor,
Register monitor, Door monitor (KS1 and KS2).
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* Water bottles – please ensure your child has a
named bottle to keep hydrated – this is
important in all weathers.
* P.E. kits need to be in school all the time.
Trainers are required for outdoor P.E.
* Aprons or old shirts are very useful to prevent
stains and marking in Art and DT lessons.
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