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 : ) We are really looking forward to this term with you as there is so much to look forward to- lots of new learning and our class residential!

In Writing, we will be exploring ‘The Paperbag Prince’.

In our English lessons we will be looking at the book ‘The Paperbag Prince’. This is a wonderful story about an old man living in a railway carriage on a rubbish dump. But he knows that even rubbish can sometimes contain treasure, and that if he stays long enough, gentle nature will heal the countryside and make the green come again. With important messages about the environment, we will finish the unit by writing a persuasive text about waste management.

In Reading, we will be sharing the books ‘The Last Wild’ and ‘Pollution Behind the Scenes’.

In our reading lessons, we will be working on the books ‘The Last Wild’ and ‘Pollution Behind the Scenes’. We will link these books to our book in our writing lessons and focus on developing our skills of inference and looking at how language, structure and presentation contribute to meaning.

Maths

Decimals & Percentages Perimeter & Area

We will continue our work on decimals and percentages this term. We will look at the links between decimals and percentages and round numbers up to decimal places. We will then move onto looking at calculating the perimeter and area of shapes.

In RE we will cover our topic ‘To the Ends of the Earth’, where we will begin by focusing on Jesus’ ascension to Heaven and His gift of the Holy Spirit. We will discuss the gifts and fruits of the Holy Spirit and how they help us, as Christians, to be good disciples. Through looking at the life of Mary, we will consider what the term ‘discipleship’ means.

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