Our Trip this half term is to:
Notes to remember about Year 5
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Wednesday is PE so please remember to bring your PE kits.
Please can you bring your book bags to school every day
Homework
Bradford University
Lapage Primary School
Year 5
Summer 1
Monday : Spellings
Rivers and Coasts
Tuesday : Times tables / maths
Wednesday : Writing Activity
Thursday :Reading
Friday : Topic
Writing
Social and Emotional Aspects of Learning (SEAL)
This half term we will be:
This half term we will be:
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Discussing our important people
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Explaining why we sometimes feel embarrassed and how to
overcome this
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Know how to make people feel good about themselves
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Challenging stereotypes
• Writing a diary based on characters in a text.
• Writing an explanation about the Water Cycle
To look at people’s worries and provide advice
Support your child at home by helping them check the sentences that they write any time at home.
You can help your child by talking to them about what they have done
each day.
Maths
RE: Symbols and Symbolism
This half term we will be:
This half term we will be:
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Looking at everyday signs and symbols
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Identifying how we remember our special memories
• Calculating with money (adding, subtracting,
Multiplying and dividing)
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Identifying symbols in places of worship
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• Solving problems involving negative numbers
Explain what signs and symbols mean in religion
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Looking about how symbols help believers to express the concept of
God
• Developing our understanding of Roman Numerals
You can help your child by talking to them about the symbols they
may have seen
• Solving problems including angles
You could help your child at home asking children to practices the methods for calculating.
Reading
This half term we will:
Topic: Rivers and Coasts
This half term we will be:
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Be reading Cliffhanger
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• Learning about rivers
We will explore how everybody has different
feelings and how we can help
Provide advice to someone who is scared • To begin to understand the key features of a river.
You can help at home by reading every evening with your child and asking questions
as they do.
You could also ask them to write their answer in a sentence.
• Identify the journey a river takes.
• Researching information about the
Amazon River.
At home you could help your child by talking
about rivers and the seaside.
Science
This half term we will be:
Comparing and grouping together everyday materials on the basis of their
properties, including their; hardness, solubility, transparency, electrical
conductivity, thermal conductivity and their response to magnets.
Giving reasons for the particular uses of everyday materials, including
metals, wood and plastic.
You could help by talking to your child about different materials and describing
them. ICT
This half term we will be:
Creating an animation about the journey of a river
Using a range of sources to gather information
about the Amazon River
You could help by reminding your child how to keep safe on the internet.
Ensure your child is always in the same room as you when
working online.