Key Stage 2 - Bears (Year 5) 2020 - 2021

Hello to all of our little bear cubs and welcome to our class page. 

Mrs Eaton, Mrs Healey and I have been so impressed with the remote learning you have been completing and with the super work we have seen from those of you working in school too. Keep up the wonderful work! 

Remember, your daily lessons can be found on our Class Dojo page. Each day there will be a reading, writing and maths lesson for you to complete, as well as an afternoon activity. These lessons will be uploaded daily and there will be a video input from myself or Mr Dunning for each lesson. Don't forget, when you have completed each activity, please take a photograph of your work, upload a video or type in your answers through the portfolio section of you ClassDojo account. If you need any support accessing your ClassDojo account, or need any support with remote learning, please get in touch via our school contact email: contact@darnhall.cheshire.sch.uk

English

Our focus text this half term is a beautifully illustrated book called - 'The Lost Happy Endings'. Within the book we meet an unusual but kind character named Jub who comes across a sinister witch in a forest!

Throughout this half term, when creating your own pieces of writing, you will be practising using expanded noun phrases, creating atmosphere and developing a sense of character in your writing. You will also be integrating dialogue in your own writing and will be practising punctuating dialogue correctly.

Your final written outcome for this half term will be to write your own 'Golden Pen Story.'

Maths

The topic we will be focusing on over the next few weeks will be fractions! In Year 5, we will be exploring equivalent fractions, improper fractions, mixed numbers, comparing, ordering and adding and subtracting fractions. The objectives we will focus on throughout this topic, will build on your understanding of fractions from Year 4.

  Science

Our topic in science this half term is - Earth and Space.

Throughout this topic, we will be exploring the shape of the Earth, the planets in our Solar System, the orbit of the Earth around the Sun, and how day and night and the seasons occur. We will also be exploring the Moon's orbit around the Earth and the various phases of the Moon.

                                                                                Spellings             

Spellings will be uploaded to our ClassDojo page every week for you to revise and learn. Please make every effort to learn these and ask an adult or older sibling to test you on these spellings every Friday. If you have any problems with accessing ClassDojo, please contact the school.

PE

For this half term, our PE day is a Tuesday and our focus will be football.

Some of our lessons will focus on keeping you active at home.

Remember, if you are attending school at the moment, on your PE day, you should come to school wearing your PE kit for the entire day. As our PE sessions will be outside, we recommend that you wear a suitable outdoor PE kit.