St Teresa's Catholic Primary School

Welcome To Year 5's Page

Class of 2017 - 2018

Important

Please remember...

Indoor P.E kits every Monday

Fields kit every Tuesday

Homework (Literacy and Numeracy) due in every Wednesday

Summer Reading challenge

Home reading book changed as and when needed.

Dates for your Diary

Friday 29th June - Non uniform day and mass at St Teresa's church

Monday 2nd July - Sports Day 1:15pm

Wednesday 11th July - Summer production 7pm

Thursday 12th July - Summer production 7pm

P.E at King Edward's School

On Friday 4th May, Year 5 went to King Edward's school to participate in tennis and sprinting related activities.

Did you know, Usain Blot is able to run the 100m sprint in 9.58 seconds (world record) and Luca is able to run 50m sprint in 4.20 seconds - Watch this space!

Mrs Lal and Miss Siddique wish all of Year 5 a happy Easter break-stay safe.

Welcome Back

Music Evening - Thursday 15th Feb 7pm

Year 5 are lucky enough to be part of the music evening. They will be performing along side year 6. Here is a taster of what to expect...

Numeracy 2018

Up coming topics we will be covering in numeracy this half term...

Fractions of amounts

Equivalent fractions

Improper fractions

Multiplying Fractions

Adding and subtracting fractions

R.E

In R.E we read the story of John the Baptist (Luke 1)

We performed a drama playing the roles of an interviewer and Zechariah (John's father).

Children In Need

Children in need is a UK charity that has been going since 1980 and has raised over £600 million for disadvantaged children and young people.

We at St Teresa's had a spotty day to remember those who are less fortunate than us and sent a pray for those in need.

Literacy

In Literacy this half term we are looking at myths and legends. We will be writing our own myth/legend which relates to our topic of ancient Greece.

Numeracy

In numeracy this autumn term 2 these are the topics we will be covering. Each week there is a piece of numeracy homework that correlates with the topic covered in class.

Angles

Addition

Mental Calculations and negative numbers

Rounding to estimate

Subtraction

Comparing fractions.

Art

To end the autumn first term, we created our own rockets to launch into space using all the knowledge we have learnt from science, topic and PE. Here is what we produced...

Music

In music, we have been looking at the planets and creating our own music to suit that planet.

"I chose the planet Mars because its the planet named after the God of War and so I was able to bash the drum really loudly."

"I chose the planet Venus because it's such a calm, cool, soothing planet to make music for."

Take a look at the fun we had...

Play Lead

A number of Year 5 children were involved in Play Leader Training. They are going to be a support in the infant classes during lunchtime this year! Well done all.

Science

R.E

In R.E we have been looking at the story of Cain and Abel. The two brothers were jealous of each other therefore the story didn't end well. Can you infer how the story ends...

We have been looking at the Ten Commandments and played a game to see if we could work out which commandment had been broken. Looks like fun!

Literacy

In literacy we have been looking at newspaper reports. In groups we have been discussing the structural features and language features.

National Space Centre - Leicester

On Monday 25th June 2018, Year 5 went to the space centre. It was fascinating and we learnt lots. The planetarium was the best part of the day! We climbed right to the top of the rocket and it entailed us to go up and down 288 steps :O

Summer 2 Term

Literacy Overview 2018

Up coming topics we will be covering in literacy this half term...

Non-fiction texts

The Firebird

Story Writing

Character Development

Sensory Description

Exploring descriptive dialogue

Writing and evaluating a descriptive dialogue

Summer 2 Term

Overview 2018

Science - Animals and humans -Health - Growing Up!

DT - Making Bread

PE - Outdoors/Fields

ICT - We are co-authors working on Wikipedia

Practising for the summer production.

Summer 1 Term Overview 2018

Over the first summer term, year 5 will be...

P.E - Looking at outdoor team games (growing stronger as a year 5 unit and team).

History - Looking at Egypt and Egyptians.

Science - Exploring different materials and state of matter.

ICT - we are co-authors

Summer 2 Term

Numeracy 2018

Up coming topics we will be covering in numeracy this summer term...

Timetables

Addition of decimals

Line graphs

Frequency tables

Interpreting tables

Multiplying and dividing by 10, 100 and 1000

Metric and imperial units

Literacy Spring 2 2018

Up coming topics we will be covering in literacy this half term...

Charlotte's Web

Genre Types: Diary entry and newspaper report.

Inventions

Genre Types: Instruction texts, fact cards, research and continuing to edit our own piece of work.

Spring 2 Numeracy 2018

Up coming topics we will be covering in numeracy this half term...

Division

Regular and irregular polygons

3D shapes

Reflection

Area and Perimeter

In numeracy, we have been looking at 3D shapes. We've been busy matching, sorting and even building our own 3D shapes - it was tricky with fiddly fingers.

Mrs Lal and Miss Siddique would like to say....

Topic 2018 = Rivers

This half term our topic is all about the rivers around the world.

As part of our literacy, we wrote Haiku's about rivers.

Mrs Lal and Miss Siddique wish all of year 5 a very Merry Christmas and a happy new year. See you back in 2018 for lots more learning

Our topic this half term is...

Black History Month

As part of black history month, the whole school had a non school uniform day where we were able to wear clothing from our ethnic origin country or the national colours from the country/flag.

Living in Britain, we are lucky to have the British values that allow us the freedom to dress as we wish and to be tolerant of others as we understand that everyone is a unique individual.

R.E

In R.E we have been looking at why the disciples chose to follow Jesus. After listening to a few stories, we decided to hot seat each other in the character of one chosen disciple.

Hinduism

Even though at St. Teresa's we follow the Catholic religion, we still learn and respect other religions. Today (28.9.17) we went to a Hindu temple - Shri Venkateswara (Balaji) Temple in Tividale. Here's what we saw and learnt...