Year 5
Meet the team!
Year 5 is made up of two classes: 5VL and 5ES.
5VL 5ES Mrs Lambert (Mon-Thur) - victoria.lambert@alwoodley.net Miss Stevenson - emma.stevenson@alwoodley.net
Mr Coltman (Fri) - adrian.coltman@alwoodley.net
Our Learning Support Assistants in Year 5 are Mrs Johnson and Mrs Sacks.
Curriculum Plan
Things to remember:
Monday
Homework needs to be completed/returned and new homework will be set.
New reading books will be sent home on Wednesday to allow for 48 hour quarantine.
Thursday
PE kit should be worn to school (PE is in the afternoon).
Weekly Home Learning
Optional home learning tasks (set every half term)
Google Classroom
We are using Google Classroom to set home learning, give out resources and allow a link between school and home.
You will need your password to log in which the children should already know. Please let your teacher know if you have forgotten or lost your password. There will be one short homework task every week set up on Google Classroom plus further optional termly activities.
The page below will take you to the Parent 'Google Classroom' page on the website which has further information, videos and helpful documents to support you to use this at home.
https://www.alwoodleyprimary.net/google-classroom/
Year 5 Statutory spellings
Our significant author in Year 5 is Michael Morpurgo. Have you read any of his books yet? Which one is your favourite?
5ES Summer 1 enrichment afternoon - the weather cut short our outdoor team games so we finished our enrichment with art activities including origami and portraits of our inner and outer selves.
Year 5 have been designing and making greenhouses. Firstly we explored what makes a structure strong. We are then going to grow Lolorosa and Rainbow Swiss Chard lettuce in the new term to use in our cooking.
Year 5 making figures using wire models inspired by the artist 'Giacometti'.
Some children are playing a place value game and some are playing a game where you count on and back through negative numbers.
PHSE. The children are role playing how to resist peer pressure.
Year 5's Big Finish for the unit on Anglo Saxons. We are analizing historical sources and evidence to find out more about whether the Anglo Saxon era really was a dark age.
5VL's Second Autumn term enrichment activity - designing and making tie dye Tshirts
5VL's Enrichment Activity - Scavenger hunt, orienteering, hide and seek and a treasure hunt with clues. What a busy afternoon!
5ES Spring 2 enrichment afternoon. The children created and led their own quizzes based on our learning this half term demonstrating creativity and team work as well as excellent recall of our earthquake and forces topics.
5ES Autumn 2 Enrichment Activity (poetry) - the children enjoyed watching a poetry related film and writing and performing their own poems to the class.
5ES Autumn 1 enrichment activity - making rice crispy buns (linking to our learning on reversible changes in science) and gift boxes.
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