Miss Moore
Angels Teacher
My favourite book is The Snail and the Whale by Julia Donaldson. Not only is it my favourite, but it has been a firm favourite in my house since my daughter was only a few months old. It was the first book that we read together and she has asked for it nearly every night since! We love retelling the story together and looking at the pictures.
Miss Curnow
Support staff
‘The Midnight Gang’ by David Walliams is a book that still brings me joy when I think about it and see others reading it. This book is about a group of children in hospital who escape at night to go on adventures and make their dreams come true. I love how the book shows the positives of unfortunate circumstances and uses humour throughout the story.
Hello everyone and welcome back! We hope that you have all had a fantastic Summer. We are very much looking forward to getting stuck into a new academic year and have lots of fun things planned!
During Autumn 1, the main area of maths that we are going to be looking at is Place Value. We are going to be spending time looking at Place Value up to 1 million (Y5) before moving on to looking at how to successfully partition numbers, finishing off with rounding numbers to the required degree of accuracy. For the remainder of the half-term, we will be looking at the four operations: addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. Our maths is taught through a mastery approach, giving the children time to explore the concept being taught using concrete resources before moving on to pictorial and then more abstract concepts (CPA approach). We will continue to encourage the children to practise their number recall through weekly 99 Club challenges and TT Rockstars battles as well as daily Flashback4's to encourage retention. We will continue with regular arithmetic practise- the purpose of this is to expose the children to a range of calculations and to help with the retrieval and retention of key number facts.
Our topic title for this half term will be ‘Vile Victorians. During this history-based unit, the children will be learning all about the Victorian era. By the end of this unit they will have a greater understanding of the significance of the Victorian period within British history. Throughout the unit, children will be learning about lots of different aspects of this period in history including schooling, inventions, railways, clothing and what life was like for working children.
Our key text in English for Autumn 1 will be King Kong by Anthony Browne. In this unit, children will be following a small step approach looking closely at vocabulary, structural and language features before showcasing their learning by writing an action-packed story ending.
In Whole Class Reading, we will continue to explore a range of texts and genres and we will continue to practise applying the key reading skills. In addition to this, we will be continuing to develop our love for reading by sharing our Class Read at the end of each day.
In RE this half term, we will be thinking about the question ' What does it mean for Christians to believe God is holy and loving?’ In this unit, the children will continue to build on their learning in years 3 and 4 where they focussed on learning about what a Gospel is, as well as identifying stories it may contain. Children will also build on their knowledge of God as a trinity, and reflect on why knowing God is such a personal experience as well as how He is portrayed to His believers.
In Science, we will be looking at the Year 6 unit focusing on ‘Living things and their habitats’. By the end of the unit, children will be able to describe how living things are classified including microorganisms, plants and animals, give reasons for classifying plants and animals based on specific characteristics and identify the main types of microorganisms and what causes them to propagate and transmit.
Our PE for this half-term is going to be circuit training. This Y5 Circuit Training unit will allow pupils to focus on a range of different types of exercise and sporting values. Children will learn about the effects of different types of exercise and will take part in upper body, lower body and core muscle exercises. They will focus on sporting abilities such as being a good sportsperson, taking part in respectful competition, working as a team and playing to each other’s strengths. In addition to this, children will have a chance to plan their own circuit of exercises to develop someone’s all round fitness and will evaluate their own progress each lesson and throughout the unit. In addition to this, we will be completing a week’s intensive swimming course at Polkyth.
For our music lessons, we will be using the Charanga unit ‘Melody and Harmony in Music’. In this unit, children will explore the voices that sing the melodies and the instruments used within the music to create the harmonies.
In our computing unit this half term, we will be focusing on Online Safety. During this unit, children will demonstrate a clear understanding of what the SMART rules are and how they should be applied to using technology safely and respectfully.
Finally, in PSHE, we will be focusing on the theme ‘ Being Me in My World’. In this unit, children will be reflecting on the rights to protect, the rights to learn, how choices affect other people and the positive benefits to democracy and having a voice.