Year 5 2022 - 2023
Mr Hallard
Welcome to Spring 1.
What an exciting term we have planned with plenty of new and fascinating topics awaiting. We will look to explore the Victorians in History as well as design a toy for a Victorian child in design technology, and so much more detailed below.
In addition to myself, Mrs Tomlinson will be covering the class on Mondays in which she will be teaching French, R.E and Music. Mr Richards will also be providing valuable support in our Maths lessons throughout the term.
You can follow our class on Twitter @LittleLeighSch and on our school's Facebook page where I can provide pictures to celebrate the great work we accomplish.
If there is anything you wish to discuss then please don’t hesitate to contact me at JHallard@littleleighprimary.cheshire.sch.uk.
Here’s to a successful learning journey!
Mr Hallard
We will be supporting our writing and history topic through a variety of modern fiction and non-fiction.
This half term we will be looking at ‘The Errand'. In this fable-like graphic novel, a young boy is tasked with delivering a package to a terrifying woman who lives deep within the sinister Whispering Woods
We will be:
- Continuing our understanding of multiplication and division by multiplying a 4-digit number by a 2-digit number as well as dividing with remainders.
- Once we have grasped a deeper understanding of multiplication we will use this knowledge to help us multiply fractions.
Multiplication and understanding the timetables are important for all children in education. I strongly recommend the children spend some time at home practising the multiplication tables up to (and including) the 12 times table in preparation for our learning.
Here is a fun game which may help.
This term we will be exploring properties and changes in materials. We will investigate grouping different everyday materials by their hardness, conductivity (electrical and thermal) and transparency. It's really important that we continue to investigate and carry out our experiments in a fair fashion and so we will continue to discuss how and why we conduct a fair experiments in our Science lessons.
We begin our History topic on the Victorians this term. Year 5 will be asking: What was revolutionary about the Victorian period through the eyes of a child? Our history will be supported through cross-curricular learning with the children designing a top for a Victorian child in Design and technology as well as our guided reading sessions covering a variety of topics about the Victorians too.