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Welcome to Year 5 at Red Hill!

We would like to warmly welcome your child into Year 5 and we are very excited to support them as they begin their journey in Upper KS2.

At Red Hill, we have four Year 5 classes:-

5S- Mr Sargent (Miss Miles)

5B- Miss Beltrami (Miss Greig)

5K- Mr Knight

Our year group TA is Mrs Dwyer

Curriculum

Please click below to see the curriculum map for Year 5 as well as the topic web for this half term. These are working documents however, so they may change as we progress into the term. The Year 5 Curriculum Meeting slides are also below.

Year 5 Curriculum Map 2023-2024.pdf

Year 5 Curriculum Meeting.pdf

Topic Web - Summer 1.pdf

Homework sheets

Please see below for weekly homework sheets. Children should have brought these home every Friday in their homework books.

Attached is also a recommended reading list.

Year-5-Reading-List.pdf

Summer 1 - Week 1.pdf

Our learning

Our Science topic will be ‘Roots, Fruits and Shoots’. We will be learning about the life cycle of a plant following its journey from a seed to pollination, to fertilisation, to germination, to the growth and then back to seed again. We will become scientists as we investigate what plants need to grow well and the role that bees and butterflies play in plant life.

Our Geography topic is called ‘The Holiday show’. We will first look at holiday destinations and we will research our ideal holiday destinations. Later on we will look at climate change across the globe and differences in climate from countries that reside on either side of the equator.

English

In English, we will be reading ‘The Explorer’ by Katherine Rundell. We will be focussing on the following skills: writing poems that use word play, dialogue in first person narratives and poems which explore form. We will also have a focus on different aspects of grammar and punctuation to incorporate within each genre of writing.

Maths

In maths, we will be continuing to develop our knowledge of decimals and percentages as well as covering a new topic of: shape, position and direction.

Supporting your child with their learning at home

Reading

Reading should be completed a minimum of 3x a week, but ideally for 10 minutes each evening. This can be completed with an adult, or children can choose to read independently. If reading independently, children can record their reading session in their book but should get an adult to initial it. If reading to an adult, the adults need to record the reading session in the reading record, alongside a sentence or two about how the read and anything they found tricky. Reading records must be in school every day.

Homework books

Homework books are sent home on a Friday and must be returned to school on a Wednesday. Weekly homework includes:

Maths

A short maths challenge linking to the week’s learning. There will be 3 different challenges that your child can choose to complete depending on how confident they felt with that concept in class. Children should also log into TTRS (https://ttrockstars.com) and practise their multiplication recall.

Spellings

Children will have 10 spellings sent home linking to a spelling pattern being taught in class. These will be tested in the spelling session on a Wednesday morning.

IPC

At the bottom of the homework will be some questions linking to the topics being taught in class. Please ask your children these questions and get them talking about all the incredible learning that is taking place in classrooms! This is a great chance for children to share all of their amazing knowledge.