Year Five

Welcome to Panther Class!

Our teacher is Miss Francis s.francis@kings-hill.kent.sch.uk . Our teaching assistants are Mrs Garner and Mrs Butler

Welcome to Leopard Class!

Our teacher is Mrs Weller m.weller@kings-hill.kent.sch.uk and our teaching assistant is Mrs Anderson.

Please click here for the Year 5 'Meet the Teacher' presentation

Autumn Term 2024

Welcome to Year 5. We hope you had a lovely break and we are looking forward to a hard-working and fun term with you all.

Below is an outline of the learning that will take place this term.

English Key Text: Kensuke's Kingdom

Reading:

Fluently and automatically read a range of age appropriate texts from the following: modern fiction and those from our literary heritage; books from other cultures; myths, legends and traditional stories; poetry; plays; non-fiction and reference or text books.
Determine the meaning of new words by applying morphological knowledge of root words and affixes .

Writing:

Choosing nouns or pronouns appropriately for clarity and cohesion and to avoid repetition.
Using fronted adverbials, punctuating with a comma.
The grammatical difference between plural and possessive –s.
Use of inverted commas and other punctuation to indicate direct speech.
Using relative clauses with a relative pronoun or implied relative pronoun

Spelling, punctuation and grammar:

To write a range of sentence structures which are grammatically accurate.
To use relative clauses which begins with relative pronouns: who, which, where, when, whose.
To maintain correct tense.
To identify and select determiners.
To demarcate sentences correctly.
To use commas for a pause in complex sentences.

Mathematics:

To understand Roman numerals to 1,000.
To read, write and compare numbers to 1,000,000.
To understand the powers of 10.
To find 10, 100, 1,000, 10,000 or 100,000 more or less than a given number.
To partition numbers to 1,000,000.
To round the nearest 10, 100 or 1,000.
To round within 100,000.
To round within 1,000,000.
To add whole numbers with more than four digits.
To subtract whole numbers with more than four digits.

Science:

To know that friction can stop or slow down a moving object.
To know that a stationary object will only move when the force applied is greater than the friction, which acts in the opposite direction to the movement.
To know that air resistance is a friction force between air and a moving object.
To know that air resistance is greater when the surface area of the moving object is large.
To know that water resistance is a friction force between water and a moving object.
To know that the more streamlined an object is, the less water resistance is acting upon it.
To know that gravity is a non-contact force.
To know that gravity is an invisible force that pulls things to the centre of the Earth (or other planets).
To know that heavier objects do not fall to the ground quicker than lighter objects.
To know that levers, pulleys and gears are all mechanisms that will allow a smaller force to have a greater effect.

Geography:

To use an atlas effectively.
To describe the significance of latitude and longitude.
To use four figure grid references.
To know the role of scales and why we need a variety of them in an atlas.
To identify physical and human features on OS maps.
To describe features of a location and their position using the 8 points of the compass.
To plan a journey using a road atlas.

Music:

To listen to and appraise different genres of music.
To listen and evaluate to make my own performance more accurate.
To perform accurately using both hands.
To play a simple melody using correct finger position.
To perform in time and mostly accurate.
To identify notes on a stave and match them to the keyboard.

D.T.:

Communicate design ideas in different ways as these develop, bearing in mind aesthetic qualities, and the uses and purposes for which the product is intended.
Select appropriate tools and techniques for making their product.
Reflect on the progress of their work as they design and make, identifying ways they could improve their products.

Computing:

To consider the difference between the Internet and the World Wide Web.
To consider how we find information on the World Wide Web.
To discuss how information online may not be accurate or reliable.
To create checklist to ensure that the information we use is accurate and reliable.

PSHE:

To understand how to contribute towards the democratic process.
To understand the rights and responsibilities associated with being a citizen in the wider community and their country.
To know how to face new challenges positively.

RE:

Explore and discuss:

How many people believe in God?
Is God Real? What do Christians think?
Why do people believe or not believe in God?
If God is real, why is there suffering in the world?

P.E.:

To measure the effects of exercise of exercise on pulse rates.
To evaluate the effect of differing fitness activity on pulse rates.
To explore a range of fitness skills and record performances.
To pass and receive with accuracy, confidence and control in isolated situations and sometimes games.
To shoot accurately in a range of ways using different equipment. Shoot from close range and distance.

Year 5 have PE on Mondays and Thursdays. Could children please come dressed in their PE kits and have their earrings taken out on these days.

French:

Vocabulary: sports, opinions, connectives and 3rd person verbs.

Grammar: to conjugate -er verbs and to develop reading skills.

Phonics: to be able to read qu, i, y and é.

Culture: to celebrate European Day of Languages.

Click here to see the expectations for reading, writing and maths in Year 5.

For more information on our remote learning offer for those of you learning at home, please click here.

For more information on the learning taking place this term, please see the Year 5 curriculum map below.

As well as accessing our broad curriculum, our pupil offer outlines the additional opportunities your child will have whilst in Year 5.

Curriculum Maps

Term 1 Curriculum Map

Term 2 Curriculum Map

Term 3 Curriculum Map

Term 4 Curriculum Map

Term 5 Curriculum Map

Term 6 Curriculum Map

Class Timetable

Year 5 Class Timetable

Homework in Year 5

Daily Reading

We encourage all children to read at home daily and a note to be written in their reading journal. If the school book has been completed then please read and share any other books/comics you have at home. These can also be recorded in the reading journal and can count towards the number of daily reads.

Spellings

Spelling will be sent home on a Friday and will tested the following Friday

SPaG.com

SPaG activities will be set on Fridays and will need to be completed by the following Friday.

Maths arithmetic

Arithmetic questions will be set on Fridays and will need to be handed in on the following Wednesday.

TT Rockstars

We suggest working on TT Rockstars for 15 minutes a week; however you can do more should you wish. Specific timestables will be set for your child and this programme aims to increase the fluency of these. This is an online maths game that can be accessed on tablet, ipads and desktops

English in Year Five

Reading in Year Five

By the end of year 5, the children's reading should demonstrate increasing fluency across all subjects. They will understand the conventions of different types of writing such as the use of the first person and understand some technical terms needed for discussing what is heard and read such as metaphor, simile. analogy, imagery, style and effect. In using non-fiction, the children will know what information is needed to look for before beginning a task and know how to use a contents page and indexes to locate information and apply these skills across the curriculum independently. They will apply a growing knowledge of root words, prefixes and suffixes (morphology and etymology) both to read aloud and to understand the meaning of new words that are met.

Writing and SPaG in Year Five

In the composition of writing, the children will select the appropriate form and identify the audience for, and purpose of, the writing. They will use further organisational and presentational devices to structure text and to guide the reader, for example headings, bullet points and underlining.

When developing SPaG skills, the children will consider converting nouns or adjectives into verbs and be able to indicate degrees of possibility using adverbs or modal verbs. They will use devices to build cohesion within a paragraph and use commas to clarify meaning.

By the end of year 5, the children will use accurate grammar and punctuation and begin to apply this when considering both audience and purpose. They will understand the differences between standard English and non-standard English and can apply what has been learnt.

Maths in Year Five

During year 5 the children will continue to develop their fluency across all the areas of mathematics. They will work with numbers to at least 1,000,000 and determine the value of each digit. They will develop their skills of using formal written methods for addition, subtraction, division and multiplication. They will identify multiplies, factors, squares and cubes and use this knowledge to solve problems.

When working with fractions, children will compare and order fractions and read and write decimal numbers as fractions. They will solve problems which require knowing percentage and decimal equivalents and those fractions with a denominator of a multiple of 10 or 25.

Children will have the opportunity to convert different units of metric measure and calculate the perimeter of composite rectilinear shapes and will calculate and compare the area of compound shapes. Children will draw given angles and measure accurately using degrees. They will distinguish between regular and irregular polygons based on reasoning about sides and angles.