Welcome back year 5,
This term our geography topic is called 'Sow, Grow and farm'. We will be learning about the features and characteristics of land use in agricultural regions across the world, including a detailed exploration of significant environmental areas.
At the bottom of this page are documents - vocabulary, a knowledge organiser and home learning tasks for these units. The home learning tasks are optional and do not need to be brought into school but will support your child's learning.
Literacy
We will learn reading, writing, speaking and listening through different units based on high-quality texts. This term the theme of our stories will be belonging and equality. We will begin the term by basing our writing on the book 'The Island' by Armin Greder. We will create welcome guides, descriptions, letters of advice, analysis, comparison, diary entry in role and imagined conversations.
Reading
We teach reading through the Destination Reader scheme at Oaklands. Children will be learning the reading skills of prediction, inference, clarification, evaluation, questioning and making links. We will begin this term by reading ' The Secret Garden' by France Hodgson Burnett.
Maths
At Oaklands we teach through the White Rose scheme. We will start this term by revisiting multiplication and division and extend the formal written method for short multiplication to multiplying 4-digit numbers by a 1-digit number.
Science
Our project this term is 'Human Reproduction and Ageing. It teaches children about animal life cycles, including the human life cycle. They explore human growth and development to old age, including the changes experienced during puberty and human reproduction.
Computing
We use Purple Mash to help with our Computing learning. This term we will working on spreadsheets and databases.
French
Language Angels is the scheme we use for French teaching at Oaklands. This term we will learn about the weather and pets.
Music
Using Charanga, the children will learn how to: listen and appreciate music; sing in groups and to play along with known songs. They will have the opportunity to improvise using instruments as well.
PE
In PE, children will learn handball and yoga. P.E. at school will take place on Wednesdays and Thursdays where we will continue to wear our PE kit to school. The kit consist of a sky blue polo, royal blue Oaklands jumper, royal blue cotton shorts, socks and suitable sports trainers. For health and safety reasons earrings and watches should be removed for all PE lessons and long hair must be tied up.
Homework
Reading: Every night (15 minutes)Reading books will be changed on a Tuesday and each pupil will take two books home depending on their level of reading ability. Please make sure children have their books available to read every day.
Timetable Rock stars: Daily practise of timetables is strongly recommended. Recalling times tables improves memory skills, which is a transferrable skill that will help throughout school and into adult life. Children will find it easier to solve maths problems and to do mental arithmetic if they have already memorised their times tables.
A piece of homework to support learning in class will be given out every other week on a Friday and will be due on the following Wednesday in homework books.
On Wednesday mornings, Mrs Bissmire and Mrs Andreas will teach PE and PHSE/RSE. We are lucky to be supported in class by Mrs Donnelly and Ms McGrath. If you, or anyone you know, has skills or knowledge that could enrich our in-class learning, we would love to hear from you and see if we can make use of this in our lessons.
If you have any concerns, or questions regarding your child, please contact the school office (admin@oaklands.herts.sch.uk) to arrange a meeting.
Kind regards,
Ms Mohammed
Year 5 teacher
French and RE subject lead