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Kenningtons Primary Academy
Welcome to Year 5
2020 - 2021
Dear Parents Welcome to another year at Kenningtons Primary Academy! In order to help you support your children in their learning, we have prepared the following pack which contains important information about Year 5. In the following pages you will find information relating to: • Who the Year 5 team are. • The key expectations in reading and writing with suggestions on how you can help your child achieve these. • The key expectations in mathematics with examples of our calculation policy (as we know the methods we use can look different to what you learnt at school). • Autumn Curriculum overview • Important deadlines relevant to Year 5. • Merits
Miss Wallin (5CW) Miss Hellier (5H) Miss Wallace (5BW) Mrs Bryant (5CW) Miss Rowell (5H) Mrs Sadowska (5BW)
Reading in Year 5
As children move into Year 5, they should be able to apply their growing knowledge of root words, prefixes (beginning of words)
and suffixes (ends of words) to read aloud and to understand the meaning of new words that they meet. We have attached the
common exception words for Years 5/6 which have an unusual correspondence between spelling and sound. By the end of Year 5,
children should be able to read at least half of these words. (See page ‘Common exception words’.)
It is important that they read regularly and work towards becoming fluent, enthusiastic readers who read a range of texts. (See
page ‘Year 5 Recommended Reads’.)
At this stage, the reading focus is centered around reading comprehension rather than word reading directly. We have listed
below some of the key skills they will need to demonstrate by the end of the year:
• I can talk about a wide range of books and text types including myths, legends, traditional and historical stories and books from
other cultures and traditions and discuss the features of each
• I can read non-fiction texts and identify the purpose, structure and grammatical features, evaluating how effective they are
• I can summarise the ideas from more than one paragraph
• I can discuss moods, feelings and attitudes
• I can recognise different points of view
• I can identify and comment on an authors choice of language and technique for describing characters, settings and actions or
expressive and figurative language in poetry
• I can make comparisons between texts
• Finally, when reading aloud, children in Year 5 should be able to read approximately 150 words per minute in an age-
appropriate text. (See page ‘Year 5 Recommended Reads’.)
Common Exception Words Year 5 and 6
Year 5 and 6 Recommended Reads
KS2 Reading Comprehension Questions
KS2 Reading Comprehension Questions
KS2 Reading Comprehension Questions
KS2 Reading Comprehension Questions
Writing in Year 5 Throughout the year, children will study a range of genres where they will be expected to write in a similar style. You will see some of this in homework tasks and more information will be given in the weekly overviews. If you want to help your child to get better at writing, simply encourage them to write in a fun context! E.g. lists, stories, recounts of exciting things you have done, poems, letters, keeping a diary, creating comic strips, etc. However, one area where you can really help your child, is spelling. Weekly lists are sent home which are taken from the National Curriculum for Year 5. Some of these words your child might be able to spell (this is fabulous!), but you can extend this by encouraging them to write exciting, fun sentences containing the words. Spelling tests are given weekly and at half term a Spelling Badge Challenge is provided where the children obtaining 17 marks out of 20 or more are awarded a spelling badge. Children who obtain 5 out of the 6 half-termly spelling badges, are rewarded the Golden Bee in July. If your child finds spelling tricky, a ‘Look, cover, say, write, check’ approach can help. (See next page.)
Look, cover, say, write, check
Handwriting Handwriting by now should be correctly formed, consistently sized and joined up. Children should write legibly, fluently and with increasing speed.
Mathematics in Year 5
The principle focus of mathematics teaching in upper KS2 is to ensure that pupils extend their understanding
of the number system and place value to include larger integers. This should develop the connections that
pupils make between multiplication and division with fractions, decimals, percentages and ratio.
Number and place value Calculations
• I can read, write, order and compare numbers to at least • I can add and subtract whole numbers with more than 4
digits
1 000 000
• I can add and subtract numbers mentally with increasingly
• I can interpret negative numbers in context, count large numbers
forwards and backwards with positive and negative • I can solve addition and subtraction multi-step problems in
whole numbers, including through zero contexts, deciding which operations and methods to use
and why
• I can round any number up to 1 000 000 to the nearest
10, 100, 1000, 10 000 and 100 000 • I can multiply numbers up to 4 digits by a one- or two-digit
number using a formal written method, including long
• I can solve number problems and practical problems that multiplication for two-digit numbers
involve all of the above • I can multiply and divide numbers mentally
• I can read Roman numerals to 1000 (M) and recognise • I can divide numbers up to 4 digits by a one-digit number
years written in Roman numerals. using the formal written method of short division
• I can multiply and divide whole numbers and those
involving decimals by 10, 100 and 1000Calculation methods
Calculation methods
Calculation methods
Mathletics
500
points! Lucky dip!
Just like last year, the class teacher will announce their
‘Mathlete of the Week’ who will receive a certificate in
This year, when a child scores 500 points or more (on the
class on a Monday. The ‘Mathlete’ is the person who
teacher’s assessment system) during the week, they will
scored the highest percentage for activities correctly
receive a Lucky Dip ticket. The children will write their names
completed. Please note that this is NOT the same
on these and put it in the Lucky Dip boxes in the hall. At the
scores that the children can see when logged in on
end of every half term, we will have a Lucky Draw out of the
Mathletics. The teachers’ assessment system is
KS1 and KS2 boxes in assembly. The winners from each key
different.
stage will each receive a Lakeside voucher. Please remind
your child that the more tickets they have in the box, the
better their chances of winning.Curriculum overview
During the Autumn term, we will be learning about the following:
Autumn 1 Autumn 2
Curriculum Anglo Saxons Vikings
Science Properties and changing materials Forces
Computing Powerpoint TBC
RE Why do some people believe God What would Jesus do? Can we live by
exists? the values of Jesus in the twenty-first
century?
PSHE Investors in Pupils Investors in Pupils
PE Team games Indoor athletics
Music BBC Ten Pieces; George Gershwin Create and Sing; Hansel and Gretel
Rhapsody in Blue
• Please note, elements of the above may change as we are currently carrying out a curriculum
review. We will update you throughout the year…Important
Days The half-termly Spelling Badge
Challenges take place on the last
school day of each half term.
Homework is sent out on a Friday.
To be handed in on a Wednesday.
Weekly spelling tests take place on
PE will take place on a Thursday. a Friday.
Children will need to come to New spellings also go out every
school in their PE kit for the whole Friday.
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