High Flyers Yr 5

Welcome to the High Flyers' Class Page.

We will be using this as a window in to what goes on in class. Attached is a welcome PowerPoint and Letter that briefly highlights the routines of a typical day, along with some information about how you can help your child to achieve their full potential.

Thanks

Knowledge Organisers

To help with this term's topic - Crime and Punishment - we have created a knowledge organiser that each child can use to begin to understand what will be taught throughout the topic. This document contains the essential knowledge we will be studying in class.

If your child could learn this section by section, as each week we will be testing them. 

Some ways you could use the Knowledge Organiser at home - 

• Children read the information and try and recall it either verbally or writtten down
• An adult tests them on small sections
• Repeat it over and over
• Keep revisiting information that has already been learnt in previous weeks

Any other hints and tips that you have found useful would be welcomed.

SPRING 1

English -  Battle Cry (Read, Write, Perform), Poetry

Battle Cry - persuasive writing

Poetry - The Highwayman

Maths - Multiplication and Division, and Measure

Measure - Calculate the perimeter of rectilinear shapes, calculate the area of squares and rectangles

Multiplication and Division - Know and use vocabulary of prime numbers, multiply numbers up to 4 digits by 1 or 2 digits, multiply and divide whole numbers and decimals by 10, 100 and 1000

Science - Forces Continued

Children will Be asked to explain and identify, friction, and air and water resistance

We will also investigate pulleys, levers and gears - inventing a new contraption

Topic - Crime and Punishment (See 'homework' section below for links)

To explain how Parliament affects decision making in England.

To describe how crime and punishment has changed over a period of time.

Forces (link to D&T – make replica medieval torture device using levers and pulleys knowledge)

Computing - databases

Databases: Create graphs and tables about crime statistics and paste into PowerPoint for presentation.

AUTUMN 2

What we are studying this term;

English - Letter writing, Non-Chronological reports

Formal - letters of complaints to holiday companies

Informal – letters of thanks to Greek Priest

Non-Chronological report – Greek islands

Maths - Place Value, Addition and Subtraction, and Measure

Place Value - Roman Numerals to 1000, Interpret negative numbers

Addition and Subtraction - 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 number

Measure - Area and Perimeter

Science - Forces

Children will Be asked to explain and identify, friction, and air and water resistance

We will also investigate pulleys, levers and gears - inventing a new contraption

Topic - Groovy Greeks

Geography - Planning a trip to Greece

History - Describing historical events from Ancient Greece

Computing - Algorithms and Programs:

Use VR to explore the landscape of Greece. – Google maps

Homework 

I have included a number of website links below that your child could be accessing to help improve their English and Maths skills.

Feedback

Any other websites that your child uses and finds effective - I would love to able to add them here too. Please let me know.