1. Parent workshop Year 5

2. Topics for Year 5 Autumn Term – Stargazers Space Centre visit.
Earth and Space science – The Solar System, Day and Night.
History of space explorations.
Art – The Artist Peter Thorpe (Space Art)
Hyperlinked power points.
Literacy: Non-chronological reports, recounts, alien descriptions, newspaper reports, explanation texts (why is there life on Earth?) and fictional myth.

3. Topics for Year 5 Spring 1 - Scream Machine Visit – Theme Park?
Literacy: instructions, mystery narrative and narrative poetry.
DT focussed project.

4. Topics for Year 5
Spring 2 – Beast Creator
Mini beast focus

5. Topics for Year 5
Summer Off With Her Head! (Residential and Shakespeare performance)
Literacy – persuasive writing and preparation work for residential.
History - Tudors

6. Class Routines Day of the week What your child will need: Monday
Book bag
Spelling log book
Tuesday
PE kit (outdoor) Y5C only
Wednesday
PE kit (outdoor) Y5S only
Homework folder
Reading scheme book
Thursday
PE kit (outdoor) Both Y5
Friday

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

8. 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.

10. 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

11. Grammar (new learning)
Relative clauses (who, which, when, that, an…)
A wider range of adverbs.
Use of modal verbs in their writing.
Commas used correctly to avoid ambiguity.
Convert nouns or adjectives into verbs (e.g. intensify).

12. 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

13. 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

14. Any questions?