Class Teacher: Mrs Bunning, Mr Kendrick, Miss Lodge and Mrs Kittridge

Supportive Teaching Team: Miss Dawes, Mrs Wyton, Mrs Payne

Term four

Our term value: Forgiveness

Learning enquiry: Why is the world unequal?

English: we will be doing daily reading and writing lessons based upon Moses: when Harriet Tubman led her people to freedom. These lessons will explore literary techniques, grammar, comprehension skills and provide opportunities to create fiction and non-fiction pieces of work. The class will be reading The Terrible Thing That Happened To Barnaby Brocket as our class text. 

We are still using Accelerated Reader and the children can complete quizzes on their books in class. 

Maths: we have daily maths lessons after break which begin with a starter activity practising our oracy skills and mathematical understanding. We use a mastery approach within our mathematical journey. This term we are covering the following areas: 

• Calculating with decimal fractions
• Factors, multiples and primes

We will be doing daily fluency in maths to provide a chance to regularly practice our arithmetic skills.

We complete daily times table practice, focusing on different times table facts. Children are expected to practice their times tables using Times Table Rock Stars, a daily leader board is displayed in class.

Enquiry

Why is our world unequal?

We are learning about the space; the name of planets, movement through space and how this affects day and night on Earth. We will explore forces that act upon us through hands-on activities. We will do this by answering some mini-enquiries.

• Where are we?
• Why is the moon important?
• Why did we go to the moon?
• How  do others achieve their ambitions?
• What are your dreams?

Interview challenge

This term Year 5 will be taking part in an interview challenge. We will learn about our future job, prepare a CV and then have a job interview for our future job. James Wilmott, Director of Careers at TPLT will be coming in to conduct the interviews. 

Home learning

For home learning, children should be doing the following every week: 

• Reading as often as possible - ideally 5 times a week
• Practising times tables on TT rockstars (go into jamming and select the times table to practise)
• Spelling - complete the assignment (specific words) set each week