Senna Class - Year 5

What Pupils will be Learning About

Geography – Rainforests 

Science - Science Week

Art -  Typography 

PSHE -  Healthy Me

Music  -  Ukulele 

RE – Places of Worship

Computing – Vector Drawing

Modern Foreign Languages – Vegetables

This term for PE:

Indoor: Dodgeball

Outdoor: Tag Rugby

Maths

Area and Perimeter – perimeter of rectangles and polygons, area of squares and rectangles, area of compound shapes

Decimals and Percentages - Equivalent fractions and decimals, place value of decimals, rounding decimals and ordering decimals.

Statistics - draw and interpret line graphs, read and understand tables.

Reading

•Listen to and discuss their class text.

•Discuss, explore and clarify the meanings of words 

•Discuss words and phrases that capture the reader’s interest and imagination   

•Develop comprehension of a range of text including: poetry, fiction and non –fiction

Writing

Persuasive writing 

Non chronological report

Key Vocabulary

Ecosystem

Rainforest 

Rainfall

Temperature

Climate

Species

Plants

Tropical 

Things you could do at home

•Reading with your child everyday; this could be comics, sports pages, magazines, it doesn’t have to be just books.

•Ensure children practice their times tables. This could be using Times table Rockstars.

•Pupils will be bringing spellings home this term; practicing these with your children it could really benefit your child in improving their spelling.

•Use the discussion point images to create a conversation about the topic.

Discussion points

What Pupils will be Learning About

Discussion Points

History – Space Race 

Science - Earth and Space 

Art -  Van Gogh – Starry Night inspired oil paintings

PSHE -  Jigsaw – Celebrating Difference

Music  - Ukulele 

RE –  What do religions say to us when life gets hard?

Computing – Selection in physical computing 

PE – Gymnastics and Hockey (3 Weeks of Cricket at the end of term)

This term PE, for both classes will be on Wednesday and Friday 

Key Vocabulary

Solar system 

Star

Sun

Planets 

Mercury,

Venus,

Earth, 

Mars,

Jupiter,

Saturn,

Uranus,

Neptune

Orbit, 

revolve,

sphere

Maths

Multiplication and Division

Use short multiplication and long multiplication

Multiply numbers up to 4 digit x 2 digit

Short division 

Divide with remainders

Fractions 

Add fractions – same and different denominators

Subtract fractions – same and different denominators

Add and subtract mixed numbers 

Multiply fractions by a whole number

Multiply mixed numbers by a whole number

Find fraction of an amount

Find the whole from given fractions

Reading

Book Hidden Figures and Ella on the Outside 

Writing

* Persuasive writing

* Instruction writing 

* Chronological report 

Things you could do at home