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Chestnut Class: Year 5

Welcome to the Chestnut Class page! 

Class Teacher: Mrs Cole

Teaching Partner: Mrs Wilson and Ms Lewis-Knight

We are thrilled to have your child as part of our class this year and look forward to taking you on our learning journey as the year progresses.

General Information: 

  • Your child should come to school with their PE Kit on Wednesdays and Fridays. Our PE Kit consists of a navy PE top, blue/black shorts/jogging bottoms and trainers. As November and December tend to be cold, please ensure that pupils have warm PE kit for outdoor learning. 

  • Reading diaries must be in school at the beginning of each day. The expectation is that each child will read at home at least three times a week. This will be checked by the class teacher on Thursday. Please make sure parents or guardians sign the diary. 

  • In the second half of the Autumn term, we will have Forest School every Tuesday afternoon. Children need to come in wearing PE kit and bring wellies in to change into.

 

Our learning in the Autumn term:  

  •  In Maths we will begin our learning with a focus on Place Value and the 4 operations. We will also concentrate  on position and direction (geometry).
  • In English we will begin with a focus on the text 'The girl who stole an Elephant'. This will feed into many different writing outcomes such as flashback writing, biographies and poetry. 
  • We will begin our Science learning by looking at living things and their habitats.
  • In History we will look at Anglo Saxons and scots. Within these lessons, we will develop our historical skills of chronology, historical enquiry and how primary and secondary sources shape our understanding of the past.
  • For our Geography learning, we will be learning about our local area, what we can learn from it and how its history impacts us today
  • In DT this term, we will looking at structures and strength.
  • French this term will have a focus on how to say and write the date, plus a focus on our home.
  • For our PSHE learning, we focus on how we can best 'Be me in my world', alongside Celebrating the wonderful differences that make us unique.
  • Computing will allow us to make progress with our online safety knowledge as well as developing our knowledge in coding.
  • Our PE learning this term will cover Gymnastics, Tag Rugby and Hockey.
  • In RE we will be learning about The inmpact that believing in God has on Christians in the first half term, and how Hajj shows what is important to Muslims in Britain.
  • Music for this term will give us the opportunity to listen and appraise different types of music, and practice our composing skills through different styles of music.

If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to ask.

Our Class books for this term: