Welcome to Year 5
at St Anne’s Primary School

Hello and welcome to Year 5.

Teacher - Mrs Leeson

Teaching Assistant - Mrs Gough

Welcome to the summer term : ) Your last term in Year 5! The year has flown by but we have a few weeks left to make lots more memories and to learn lots of new things :)

In Writing, we will be exploring ‘Radiant Child The Story of Young Artist Jean-Michel Basquiat’.

This is a wonderful story about Jean-Michel Basquiat and his unique, collage-style paintings. We will learn about his childhood where he was a little boy who saw art everywhere: in poetry books and museums, in games, in the words that we speak and in the pulsing energy of New York City. This book with vivid text and bold artwork echoes Basquiat's own style and will introduce the children to the powerful message that art doesn't always have to be neat or clean - and definitely not inside the lines - to be beautiful. We will use the book to develop our understanding of relative clauses and adverbs, before finishing the unit by creating an information text about Jean-Michel Basquiat suitable for an art gallery.

In Reading, we will be sharing the book ‘African Tales: A Barefoot Collection’

Using this wonderful book, we will investigate the author’s language choices and draw inferences about the characters. We will also identify and discuss themes throughout the book.

Maths

Decimals Negative Numbers Converting Units

We will begin our maths work by looking at decimals this term with a focus on adding and subtracting. We will then learn about negative numbers including counting through zero and comapring and ordering negative numbers.

In RE we will cover our topic ‘Dialogue and Encounter’, where we will begin by focusing on the Bible and its structure. We will then investigate some of the covenants God made including with Abraham, Noah and the Israelites. We will then go on a journey through the Bible.

In RE, Year 5 will continue our new scheme of work ‘Vine and Branches’.