St George's CE Primary School

Homework

 This year, we ask students to focus on consistently reading at home each week. Every term we will have a reading challenge, with rewards for the children who hit the target number of reads. Reading will be recorded on Seesaw.

Times table Rock stars

Times tables are a really important part of maths. They help in many areas including multiplication, division and fractions, all which play a big part of the year 5 curriculum. To ensure we are in the best possible place to access these areas, fluent knowledge of the time stables are essential. 

Another area the children are expected to continue their learning at home is with the weekly spellings. These will be set in the weekly diaries every Monday and tested on Friday. 

The weekly lists are below. 

Some other spellings that are useful are the common exception words. These are make up our spelling zappers, which we practice in school. 

The curriculum

We follow a global themes approach. 

The global themes are: 

Autumn 1 - Identity and diversity

Autumn 2 - Peace and conflict

Spring 1 - Saving our environment

Spring 2 - Social justice

Summer 1 - Our world and beyond

Summer 2 - Our heritage

English - Writing 

This term we will be linking our writing to our history topic, Ancient Egypt. We will look at setting descriptions and write a non-chronological report on the ancient civilisation. 

English - Reading 

Our class book this term is Kensuke's Kingdom. Our reading lessons will be based from this text. We aim to have this finished by Christmas. 

Maths 

At St George's, we follow White Rose. Please find attached the termly coverage below. 

Science

 This term (Autumn 2) we will be studying how forces impact our daily life. Including: Friction, Gravity, Air Resistance and Water resistance.

History

Each half term we will rotate between a history unit and a geography unit. This term is a history unit. We'll be studying the ancient Egyptians and their memorable achievements.

 P.E 

This year, students will be taking part in weekly swimming lessons. As well as this, we will have one outdoor P.E lesson a week. You will find the swimming dates attached below.

Monday - Swimming kit

Wednesday- Outdoor P.E kit

In Year 5, we use Seesaw to support all areas of our learning. Not only is it the platform for us to upload our weekly reads, but we also use it in class as much as possible. 

Seesaw is effectivaly a digital exercise book. It has many capabilities inlcuding uploading pictures, videos and text. 

Looking through Seesaw will give you a view into our daily learning.