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Mrs Beach	Mrs Gosling

Spring 2

Curriculum Information for Spring 2

English

Writing: We will be using the text 'The Darkest Dark' by Chris Hadfield as our inspiration to practice various skills and write our own biography. We will also be using some of the techniques from talk 4 writing to continue developing our writing skills.

Reading: 'Exploring Space' - an information leaflet about space.

Within this unit children will identify how language, structure and 
presentation contribute to meaning, summarise the main ideas from more than one paragraph, identifying key details and distinguish between fact and opinion.

Maths: Power Maths unit 9 - decimals and percentage, unit 10 - perimeter and area and unit 11 - graphs and tables.

Science: Earth and Space - This half term we will be focusing on a number of different aspects of space and the planets.

History: 'The Apline Region' In this unit we will be looking at the location of the Alps and make comparisons to the UK. We will look at how mountains are formed and the physical and human features if the landscape.

Art: Drawing - using texture.

RE: Christianity.

Music: Composition and notation looking at the Blues. 

PE: Hockey and swimming.

MfL: Food and using money.

PSHE: Health and wellbeing.

Computing: Vector drawings.

Enrichment Opportunties: World Book day and Science week.

Important Information 

PE- Our PE has changed and we will now be having two sessions per week.  Thursday and Friday. Friday will be our swimming lesson.

PE Uniform: 

• Team colour t-shirt
• Plain black shorts
• Black pumps for indoor PE
• Trainers for outdoor PE
• Tracksuits, sweatshirts and leggings can be worn for outdoor PE in colder weather 
• Ear rings must be removed and long hair must be tied back

Reading Book Changes

Expectations

It is expected that all children will read at home at least five times each week. This can be a mixture of reading with support from an adult and independent reading. It can be their home reader, a magazine, newspaper, library book, or any other book that your child would enjoy reading. All home reading should be recorded in home-school diaries, this can be as simple as individual date and signature and the book that has been read as well as comment about how your child has read.

All children at Whitby Heath read daily in class whether it be on a 1:1 basis or working within group. As a school, we aim for ‘Strive for Five’. Using our Dojo reward system to celebrate this achievement. As a result, parents will receive a notification of this via the Dojo app as well as children receiving a stamp in their Reading Record indicating their total number of reads each week. 

Each child has an allocated day that their book/s will be changed, linked to their house teams:

Donaldson- Monday (yellow)

Seuss- Tuesday (green)

Dahl- Wednesday (red)

Rowling- Thursday (blue)

In school, we use children’s Reading Records to keep a record of what the children are reading rather than a dialogue between parents and school. We love to see parent comments about how they have got on if you have listened to them reading aloud or have asked them some questions about what they have read. We look forward to catching up with parents about children's reading progress in our parent’s evenings. 

Homework Information

Oracy based homework will be set every other week on class Dojo.

Maths homework will be set everyweek.

Times Tables

Please also practice the times tables that your child is on. Children are tested twice every week and cannot move on to the next times table until they have passed their current level three times. This includes multiplication and division.

ClassDojo

Should parents need to contact the Year 5 team please send a direct message through ClassDojo. All communication from school will be shared in this way. 

Other useful websites for learning at home

• Timestables Rockstars

https://play.ttrockstars.com/auth/school/student
All children have a login for this website.

• Hit the Button

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button
A great way to practice times tables at home.

• Newsround

https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround
A place for children to keep up with current events!

• National Geographic Kids

https://www.natgeokids.com/uk/
A lovely website for children to learn more about animals, wildlife and the world around them.

• BBC Bitesize

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/primary
A place full of information that covers the range of the subjects and topics we study in school.