Welcome to Year 5
at St Anne’s Primary School
Hello and welcome to Year 5.
Teacher - Mrs Leeson
Teacher Assistant - Mrs Gough
Welcome back and welcome to Year 5! We hope you have had a magical summer with your families and we cannot wait to get started on the new academic year with you :)
In Writing, we will be exploring ‘Queen of the Falls’.
In our English lessons we will be using the wonderful book ‘Queen of Falls’ to develop our writing and grammar skills. In this book we will meet Annie Taylor, a short, plump and fussy sixty-two year old widow who runs a charm school, right by Niagara Falls. When this starts to fail, she resolves to find fame and fortune by being the first person ever to go over the thundering waters of Niagara Falls in a barrel. We will use this story to work towards writing a series of diaries about significant events in Annie Edson Taylor’s life and will focus on our understanding of audience in our writing and the use of paragraphs and commas.
In Reading, we will be exploring ‘Goodnight Stories for Rebel Girls’.
In our reading lessons, we will be working on the book ‘Goodnight stories for Rebel Girls’. We will use the inspiring stories to develop our reading skills including inference, picking out key language choices and summarizing main characters.
Children will develop our understanding of Place Value by revising what we learnt in Year4 as well as extending our knoweldge.
In maths, Year 5 will begin by focusing on Place Value.
In RE we will begin with our topic on ‘Creation and Covenant’ where we will learn about the stories from the Old Testament including God’s calling to Moses and the 10 commandments. We will understand what a covenant is and think about the effect on our own lives.
In RE, Year 5 will start our new scheme of work ‘Vine and Branches’.
Other subjects
Science: Animals including Humans History: Vikings and Anglo-Saxons PE: Creating and closing space- Netball
Computing: Sprites, events and game design
Spanish: Greetings, Numbers 1-50
Music: What Shall we Do with a Drunken Sailor
DT: British Dishes
Important class information
PE day is on a Tuesday.
White or blue polo/t-shirt, black, blue or grey shorts, joggers or leggings and a black or blue jumper with trainers
Reading Books
Please make sure your child brings their book bag in every day as we will be reading with your child during calm and connect and throughout the week.
Any questions?
We have an open door policy so please pop and see us with any questions anytime or send us a message on DOJO.
