Spring Term in Year 5, what we will be doing…

MATHS • Count forwards or backwards in steps of powers of 10 for any given number up to 1000. • Interpret and use negative numbers in context. • Add and subtract whole numbers with more than 4 digits, including using formal written methods (columnar addition and subtraction). • Add and subtract numbers mentally with increasingly large numbers. • Solve comparison, sum and difference problems using information presented in a line graph. • Know and use the vocabulary of: prime numbers, prime factors and composite (non-prime) numbers. • Multiply numbers up to 4 digits by a one- or two-digit number. • Recognise and use square numbers and the notation for squared. • Solve problems involving addition, subtraction, multiplication and division and a combination of these, including understanding the meaning of the equals sign. • Identify, name and write equivalent fractions of a given fraction, represented visually, including tenths and hundredths. • Add and subtract fractions with the same denominator and multiples of the same number. • Read and write decimal numbers as fractions. • Recognise and use thousandths and relate them to tenths, hundredths, and decimal equivalents. • Round decimals with two decimal places to the nearest whole number and to one decimal place. • Recognise the per cent symbol (%) and that per cent relates to “number of parts per hundred”, and write percentages as a fraction with denominator hundred, and as a decimal fraction. • Use all four operations to solve problems involving measure. • Draw given angles and measure them in degrees. • Identify angles at a point and on a straight line.

English This term we are going to be looking at different genres of poetry, Our poem will include: Classics such as.. The Lady of Shallot’ Alfred, Lord Tennyson The Highwayman Man’ by Alfred Noyes As well as more recent poets Michael Rosen, Carol Anne Duffy and A.A Milne We will be discussing the themes in the poems, that all poetry does not need to rhyme and the different types of Poetry there is.

English Just continue to hear your children reading at home, asking them questions about what they have read e.g. Why did that character feel that way, how do you know? Can you think of another word that means the same as that? Spelling Keep practicing with your child as often as you can, Walking to school, washing the pots, cleaning teeth

RE This term we are doing…. Christmas Revelation Lent Holy Week

PE Art and DT Games: Football & Netball Dance: learn a routine over a period of weeks Gym: fitness circuit training Art and DT Artist study: Andy Warhol: Pop Art Bridge building (over the river)

Risks & Pressures It’s My Body Evaluating information and Movie Maker Computing Evaluating information and Movie Maker  Programming – gaming Scratch PSHE Risks & Pressures It’s My Body

History Looking at which monarchs we think have been the measliest and the most righteous. Geography A study of a local river.

We are no longer using class dojo to communicate with parents – we have moved onto the school-wide scheme.

For more information… Please see the curriculum map on the website or refer to the national curriculum on the government website.

Kings and queens dress up day – 15th February Important dates: Kings and queens dress up day – 15th February 5MC class assembly – 16th February 5CC class assembly – 16th March