1. Parent workshop Year 5

2. Topics for Year 5 Autumn 1 – Rockstars (music service visit)
Literacy – Poetry (raps), Biography and Instructions
Science – Separating Materials
Geography – Rockstars from around the world
DT – creating a musical instrument

3. Topics for Year 5 Autumn 2 – Highwayman Science - forces.
History – exploring and older text.
Art – Sketching and ink work.
Literacy: Poetry with be the main focus and responding appropriately to a text.

4. Topics for Year 5 Spring 1 – Woeful World War Two (Eden camp visit)
History – evacuees, rations, significant dates.
Geography – UK study – comparing the countryside with the city.
Science – materials
DT – food
Literacy: Descriptive writing and diary writing.
Text focus: The Lion and the Unicorn, and Archie’ War Letters from the Lighthouse (core text)

5. Topics for Year 5 Spring 2 – Stargazers Space Centre visit.
Earth and Space science.
History of space explorations.
Art – The Artist Peter Thorpe (Space Art)
Hyperlinked power points. ICT
Literacy: Descriptive settings, newspaper report and explanation texts.

6. Topics for Year 5
Summer 1 - Bloomin’ Rainforests (4 weeks + Residential)
Text: The Explorer
Literacy: persuasion and arguments.
Geography – grid references.
Science – Life Cycles.

7. Topics for Year 5 Summer 2 – Groovy Greeks
Literacy – narrative poetry and stories from other cultures.
Science – types of change.
Geography – exploring different settlements.
History – learn about the Ancient Greeks.
DT – pottery – clay.

8. Class Routines What your child will need: Book bag Spelling log book
Day of the week
What your child will need:
Monday
Book bag
Spelling log book
Tuesday
Reading scheme book (if on it)
Wednesday
Homework folder
Thursday
PE kit (outdoor)
Friday

9. Styles of reading in school
Daily reading / RWI
/ guided comprehension.
Individual reading turns
Hooked on a Book
Reading for home:
Free choice books (as many as wanted)
Reading scheme (books and home/school diaries to be handed in on a Tuesday for a new book that day).

10. Spellings in school SPAG Taught spelling patterns / rules
Children must be able to apply these spellings across a range of written work.
Spelling log books.

12. Grammar (recapping previous years)
Nouns, pronouns
Adverbs and adverbial phrases
Expressing time and cause through: conjunctions, adverbs and prepositions
Subordinate clauses
The present perfect tense

13. Grammar Relative clauses (who, which, when, that, and where…)
A wider range of adverbs.
Use of modal verbs in their writing. (We should be finished pretty soon!)
Commas used correctly to avoid ambiguity.
Rachel Ray finds inspiration in cooking her family and her dog.
Convert nouns or adjectives into verbs (e.g. intense = intensify).

14. Handwriting Children in Year 5 are expected to join fluently.
Never join after a capital letter.
Some letters are ‘break letters’
b, p, z, g, y
Letter formation

15. Times tables End of Year 2 expectations: 2x 5x 10x
As above and 3x 4x 8x
End of Year 4 expectations:
As above plus all others up to 12x12
RAPID RECALL IN ANY ORDER AND CORRESPONDING DIVISION FACTS
Times Table Rockers

16. Any questions?