St Paul's C.E Primary School

Class Teachers: Mr. Voaden

Learning Support Assistant: Mrs. Wood

General Class Information - Autumn Term 2024

PE 

Indoor kit will be needed on Thursday and outdoor PE kit on Wednesday.

Home Learning

Each week Year 5 are expected to read for 5-10 minutes at least 3 times per week; practice their spellings (Spelling Shed & tested weekly) and practice their times tables (TTRockstars). Please log in to Prodigy, Spelling Shed, TTRockstars to access fun ways of learning.

They will also be having additional set homework, on the following online learning platforms each week - Prodigy, LBQ and Spag.Com.

Additionally, should you wish to get creative with your child, each half term Year 5 are given home learning tasks that are suitable for the whole family. Home learning can be brought to school at any point in the half term to be celebrated with the class.

Learning overview for this Academic Year

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What we are learning in the Autumn Term

Maths 

In maths, this term we will be looking at the following areas:-

Number and Place Value

Roman numerals to 1,000

Numbers to 10,000

Numbers to 100,000

Numbers to 1,000,000

Read and write numbers to 1,000,000

Powers of 10

10/100/1,000/10,000/100,000 more or less

Partition numbers to 1,000,000

Number line to 1,000,000

Compare and order numbers to 100,000

Compare and order numbers to 1,000,000

Round to the nearest 10, 100 or 1,000

Round within 100,000

Round within 1,000,000

Addition and Subtraction

Mental strategies

Add whole numbers with more than four digits

Subtract whole numbers with more than four digits

Round to check answers

Inverse operations (addition and subtraction)

Multi-step addition and subtraction problems

Compare calculations

Find missing numbers

Multiplication and Division A

Identify multiples.

Identify common multiples

Identify factors

Identify common factors

Identify prime numbers

Identify square numbers

Identify cube numbers

Multiply by 10, 100 and 1,000.

Divide by 10, 100 and 1,000.

Multiples of 10, 100 and 1,000.

Fractions A

Find fractions equivalent to a unit fraction

Find fractions equivalent to a non-unit fraction

Recognise equivalent fractions

Convert improper fractions to mixed numbers

Convert mixed numbers to improper fractions

Compare fractions less than 1

Order fractions less than 1

Compare and order fractions greater than 1

What we are learning in the Autumn Term

English

In English, this term we will be looking at the following areas:-

The children will be using their inference and prediction skills for each of the books as well as linking any prior knowledge of books, poetry, magazines or films that may compliment these High-Quality Texts.

For the book 'The Lost Thing' the children will be planning and writing a setting description using exciting nouns, adjectives, verbs and expanded noun phrases. They will link their senses and life experience to support their writing. The children will also write a piece of poetry based upon the book. They will learn about the differences between poems and how this can reflect in their writing and response. They will then link a personal experience to the book and write an individual piece of poetry and perform their final piece in front of the class.

For the book 'Beowulf' the children will be planning and writing a Curriculum Vitae based upon a character from the book. They will learn about Curriculum Vitae, identifying the main features of and how to write one using the correct organisational devices and content. They will then explore how C.V's are used in context when they grow older. The children will also be researching and writing a newspaper article based upon the book. Again, the children will identify the main features, grammar and punctuation. They will then plan and write their own newspaper article using an ICT platform.

What we are learning in the Autumn Term

Science

In Science, this term we will be looking at the following area:-

In Science, the children will be researching 'Living Things & Life Cycles'. They will be observing and comparing life cycles of plants, animals and humans - learning how living things reproduce and develop over time. The children will focus in depth on the human life cycle and look at each stage from reproduction, gestation, birth, childhood, puberty, adulthood up to death. As they are in Year 5, the children will also compare the differences and similarities of the female and male body during puberty.

What we are learning in the Autumn Term

History

In History, this term we will be looking at the following area:-

In History, the children will be researching 'Anglo Saxons & Scots'. They will be observing the invasion of the Anglo Saxons & Scots and how the seven kingdoms were created. Using their prior knowledge of the United Kingdom, the children will be looking at how the countries, counties, cities and towns developed during the Anglo-Saxon era. 

What we are learning in the Autumn Term

Geography

In Geography, this term we will be looking at the following area:-

In Geography, the children will be researching 'Settlements'. They will be observing and linking how settlements have changed over differing periods in history. Linking prior knowledge of the Stone Age, Egyptians, Vikings, Current Era etc they can draw and explain how shelters, towns, villages and cities developed. Using Maslow's hierarchy of needs they will apply this to Settlements.