In Music, we’ll be:
• Responding to music by
different composers
• Composing our own
expressionist music
• Finding out about the
development of musical
instruments.
SEAL:
Our SEAL theme is New
Beginnings
Numeracy:
In numeracy we will be
looking at place value,
addition, subtraction,
shape, multiplication,
division, fractions and
problem solving.
During our Literacy this
half term we will be
looking at nonchronological reports and
their features. We will also
be looking at correctly
punctuating different
sentence types.
Welcome to Otter Class.
Year 5
Miss Hoyle, Mrs Margison and Mrs
Turner.
Science:
Literacy:
Our IPC topic this term will be “What
Price Progress”
In our Science lessons we
will be finding out all bout
the Earth, Sun and Moon.
In History, we’ll be:
• Finding out about
important inventions and
discoveries from the past
• Finding out about famous
people whose ideas caused
social change
• Finding out how our local
area has changed and
developed over time
In Technology, we’ll be:
Art, we’ll be:
• Finding out about
‘futurism’ and creating a
piece of art in the futurist
style
 Finding out about
‘dadaism’ and creating a
piece of art in the
dadaist style
In Society, we’ll be:
• Debating what makes someone
an entrepreneur
• Finding out about the
availability of technology in other
countries around the world
In International, we’ll be:
RE
• Finding out about sustainable
ways of living
Our RE theme is
• Finding out about the types
of technology we use in our
daily lives
• Finding out about technology
that is being developed for the
future
• Evaluating existing
technology against agreed
criteria.
• Designing and making our
own future technology to
PEmeet a need
Striking •and
fielding games
Evaluating
each other’s
design
Birds of Prey will be visiting
our class on 21st September
for our Literacy work.
We will also be going to the
cinema to see In to the
Woods in November. More
information will be given at a
later date.
If your child has received a
letter about swimming, they
need their swimming kit on
Thursdays.
If your child is not going
swimming then full PE kits will
be needed on Thursdays
instead.
PE will be on Friday
afternoons, please ensure
your child has a kit in school
at all times.
Reading books are changed
daily; please read them
regularly (at least 3 times a
week) to earn book worms.
Please watch out for more
trips and visits.
Uniform
Welcome to Otter Class.
SMCS
Year 5 must wear full school
uniform including a school
tie and black school shoes.
Year 5
Throughout our lessons we
will cover working together in
pairs, groups and people we
do not normally work with.
We will also look in to
significant events such 9/11
Remembrance Day and
international peace day
Miss Hoyle, Mrs Margison and
Mrs Turner.
Homework
Your child will be given a
weekly learning log
homework and a maths task
which will be given on a
Wednesday and returned by
the following Tuesday.
Snack
Snack is 25p a day paid to
Miss Hoyle. You can pay
daily or weekly.
Spellings will be given out
on a Monday and they will
be tested on these in
school on a Friday.
Please label all uniform,
especially jumpers.