Year 5

                            WELCOME TO YEAR 5

This web-page will be updated with information about our learning journey for the remainder of the year so keep checking it to see what we are getting up to here in year 5.

Ms Rutkowski, Mrs Vandenberg and Mr Papworth

Reminders for Year 5:

* Please bring a sturdy and clearly named water bottle into school every day.

* Please ensure your reading diary and book are in school every day.

*Please ensure all items of clothing are clearly labelled with your name.

*Please ensure that the correct PE kit (clearly labelled with your name) is in school every day.

* There is no need to bring in any stationery into school, here in year 5 all stationery needed is provided 

* Swimming kits must be brought in on Tuesday's for the remainder of this half-term please bring Swimming costume, Goggles, Swimming Hat and a Towel

Homework

• Look out for this half term’s Cornerstones-linked home learning project- Enjoy
• English and Mathematics home learning will set every Friday.
• Spellings will be tested and new ones will be set each Monday. Please ensure that your child has there Yellow book with them in school at all times and ensure there are being practised as often as possible at home!!!

• Times tables should be practised as often as possible until your child is competent up to multiplications of 12.

• This year, the ‘Reading Challenge’ will continue. If you read at least three times each week (and have evidence of this in your reading record), you will receive a very special reading award pin badge at the end of the year!

Our Virtues and Values of our Spring 2 Half-Term is...

Spring 1 -Religious Education: Parables and Sayings of Jesus

Spring 1 half term, we will examine the parables and sayings of Jesus. We will explore the concept of the Kingdom of God through Jesus’ teachings and consider how Christians respond to this teaching today through their belonging to the Church.

Spring 2- Religious Education Lent and Holy Week

Lent and Holy Week

We will be learning to appreciate that, during Lent, Christians resolve to change and to try to be more like Christ. We will listen to new Gospel stories about Jesus bringing change into the lives of the people he encountered.

Cornerstones Spring 2- Peasants, Princes and Pestilence

Year 5's Cornerstones, Spring 2 topic is Peasants, Princes and Pestilence with a focus on the subject of Geography. We will be learning all about the BLACK DEATH. We will be finding out where the Black Death originated from and how on earth it came to Britain? Learning about all the gruesome symptoms of the black death from reading historical account from people living at the time of the Black Death.

OUR CLASS SAINT: ST. MARTIN DE PORRES

We will also find out about the life of our Class Saint, St. Martin de Porres.