Welcome to Beech Class
Year 5
Autumn term
Class teacher- Mrs Lane
Supported by Miss Rusch
Remember if you need to contact us please use our class email -
mrs.lane@denholmeprimary.co.uk
At the moment our PE Lessons will be Wednesday and Thursdays.
Please come dressed for an outdoor lesson on these days !
Homework will be given out on a Monday and should be returned the
following Friday. All instructions will be given in your
homework book. This will include a set of spellings which will be
tested weekly. Please remember there are many ways to learn these
words and it is important to find what works for you - writing
words out, saying them aloud, underlining the tricky parts of the word
finding words within words, using mnemonics.
English
This term we start with The Amazing Flying Books of Mr Morris
Lessmore. We will use this lovely story to help us to write
brilliant and precise
descriptions and then our own fantasy story.
Following this, we will use stories and extracts from The Visitors Guide
to Ancient Greece to provide us with ideas for a persuasive leaflet.
Finally a lovely end
to the Autumn term when we will write Raymond Briggs The
Snowman from the perspective of the snowman himself !
We will learn how to use adverbials to link ideas, how to use modal verbs to show possibility in our writing and how to use relative pronouns when creating relative clause sentences.
BBC bitesize is a brilliant resource to help you to get to grips with these grammar terms.
Maths
We will start the term with consolidating and further developing our
understanding of place value in numbers up to a million. We will be using
concrete, abstract and pictorial resources to support us with rounding,
comparing and ordering numbers
and exploring Roman numerals to 1,000.
We will then move on to using
formal written columnar methods to add and subtract larger numbers.
We will be using and developing our reasoning skills throughout these
lessons working through problems as a class, with our partners and
independently.
Foundation
Ancient Greece is our destination this term. We will explore where Greece is and its key physical and human features, who the Ancient Greeks were and how they lived compared to today. We will look in detail at the city states of Athens and Sparta before researching the many ways Ancient Greece changed the world.
Science
In our Living things and their habitats unit we will be learning how flowering and non-flowering plants reproduce before looking at the lifecycles of different amphibians, insects, mammals and birds. We will then think about how humans change over their life cycle !
Our PSHE focus for the first half term will be Being Me in my World- through discussion, activities and reflection we will think about rewards and consequences, understand how an individual's behaviour can impact the group and look at the power of democracy.