St James' CE Primary School
Mrs Lok (Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday), Mrs Breed (Wednesday, Thursday and Friday) and Mrs Vaughan help the children in Year 5 with their learning.
Things to bring to school
Every day: reading diary, reading book and your iPad if you take this home.
Wednesday – Completed homework
Wednesday - PE kit (PE kit is a white t-shirt and blue or black shorts)
Homework *This has been updated - please read*
Please note that some homework tasks will be set online this year. Homework will be set every Friday and the children will have until Wednesday to complete the tasks. Spelling tests will now take place on Thursdays. There are 4 pieces of homework to be completed:
1) A 20-minute reading task on a website called 'Reading Plus', again with login details in their diary.
2) Regular reading of their school reading book with a grown-up at least three times a week.
3) Weekly spellings to learn for a test every Thursday.
4) A maths task on a website called 'Learning by Questions'. Your child's login details will be provided in their homework diary.
Sometimes it may be a science, geography or history Learning Log instead.
SPRING 2
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Our Geography topic is 'Living in Extreme Environments'. Please see the knowledge organiser below to find out the key things we are learning this term. |
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English Our first book focus this half-term is ‘How to Survive Anywhere’ by Ben Irwell. It is a non-fiction explanation text which we will be using to inspire us to write our own versions. It is linked to our geography topic, ‘Living in Extreme Environments’.
The second book which we will be reading is ‘Kensuke’s Kingdom’ by Michael Morpurgo. We will be writing a story excerpt, in the 1st person.
We will also continue to do our daily whole class reading sessions, daily spelling sessions and a weekly handwriting focus session. |
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Maths This half term, we will focus on decimals and percentages, then measure – perimeter and area. We also complete a daily times tables test, as well as daily arithmetic questions.
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Science Our topic this half-term is ‘Living Things and their Habitats’. We will be learning about plant reproduction as well as the life cycles of different animals, including chickens! We will have the wonderful opportunity of watching the eggs hatch and observe the development of the chicks from birth, to at least a week old.
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RE This half-term, our big question is ‘Creation and Science: conflicting or complementary?’ |
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Art We are super excited this half-term to be doing a topic on ‘Painting and Mixed Media’. We will be producing portraits using our new art skills. |
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French We will be learning how to talk about the weather in French.
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Other Subjects PSHE This half-term, our PSHE topic is ‘Healthy Me’.
Computing We will complete our Databases topic before embarking on our next topic all about Programming. We will learn how we can control a simple circuit connected to a computer and how to write a programme to control a component.
Music We will continue to learn how to play the ukulele, playing melodies as well as practising the chords we know already.
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St James' CE Primary School
Mrs Lok (Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday), Mrs Breed (Wednesday, Thursday and Friday) and Mrs Vaughan help the children in Year 5 with their learning.
Things to bring to school
Every day: reading diary, reading book and your iPad if you take this home.
Wednesday – Completed homework
Wednesday - PE kit (PE kit is a white t-shirt and blue or black shorts)
Homework *This has been updated - please read*
Please note that some homework tasks will be set online this year. Homework will be set every Friday and the children will have until Wednesday to complete the tasks. Spelling tests will now take place on Thursdays. There are 4 pieces of homework to be completed:
1) A 20-minute reading task on a website called 'Reading Plus', again with login details in their diary.
2) Regular reading of their school reading book with a grown-up at least three times a week.
3) Weekly spellings to learn for a test every Thursday.
4) A maths task on a website called 'Learning by Questions'. Your child's login details will be provided in their homework diary.
Sometimes it may be a science, geography or history Learning Log instead.
SPRING 2
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Our Geography topic is 'Living in Extreme Environments'. Please see the knowledge organiser below to find out the key things we are learning this term. |
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English Our first book focus this half-term is ‘How to Survive Anywhere’ by Ben Irwell. It is a non-fiction explanation text which we will be using to inspire us to write our own versions. It is linked to our geography topic, ‘Living in Extreme Environments’.
The second book which we will be reading is ‘Kensuke’s Kingdom’ by Michael Morpurgo. We will be writing a story excerpt, in the 1st person.
We will also continue to do our daily whole class reading sessions, daily spelling sessions and a weekly handwriting focus session. |
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Maths This half term, we will focus on decimals and percentages, then measure – perimeter and area. We also complete a daily times tables test, as well as daily arithmetic questions.
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Science Our topic this half-term is ‘Living Things and their Habitats’. We will be learning about plant reproduction as well as the life cycles of different animals, including chickens! We will have the wonderful opportunity of watching the eggs hatch and observe the development of the chicks from birth, to at least a week old.
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RE This half-term, our big question is ‘Creation and Science: conflicting or complementary?’ |
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Art We are super excited this half-term to be doing a topic on ‘Painting and Mixed Media’. We will be producing portraits using our new art skills. |
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French We will be learning how to talk about the weather in French.
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Other Subjects PSHE This half-term, our PSHE topic is ‘Healthy Me’.
Computing We will complete our Databases topic before embarking on our next topic all about Programming. We will learn how we can control a simple circuit connected to a computer and how to write a programme to control a component.
Music We will continue to learn how to play the ukulele, playing melodies as well as practising the chords we know already.
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