Glade Hill Primary and Nursery School
We are Golden and we SPARKLE
Yr 5 - Marvellous Maples
Welcome to Marvellous Maples class page!
Welcome to the Marvellous Maples class page. We are so excited to continue this Marvellous learning journey and look forward to sharing all of our wondering learning experiences with you. On this page, you will find information about the learning that is taking place each term, information about homework, letters and other exciting updates.
If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact me on the class email which you can find below.
maples@gladehill.nottingham.sch.uk
Miss Atkin & Miss Henson
Key information
- Read 3 times per week or more (every read counts!)
- Practise spellings on your colour each week
- Practise your times-tables or arithmetic skills each week
- Complete homework
- Remember PE kits for each lesson (Monday and Wednesday/Thursday).
Meet and Greet Powerpoint- Year 5 and 6
Autumn 2
Maths
In our maths lessons this half-term, we will be learning about multiplication and division – including multiples, factors, prime numbers, square numbers, cube numbers and multiplying and dividing by 10, 100 and 1000!
We will also be beginning our first units on fractions – looking at equivalence.
Reading
In our shared reading lessons, we will be developing our skills by reading and understanding texts across a range of genres - both fiction and non-fiction. Our main focus will be on understanding vocabulary and improving our inference and retrieval skills.
Writing
In our writing lessons, we will be using When the mountains roared as a stimulus to write a magazine campaign article persuading people to adopt a snow leopard, as well as writing a discussion text, thinking about the advantages and disadvantages to animals being in a zoo!
We will be working on many persuasive writing features and including direct and indirect speech.
Wider Curriculum
Geography – Locational knowledge – North America!
Art – Drawing.
Science- Forces.
PE- dodgeball and volleyball.
Autumn 1
Autumn 1
Maths
In our maths lessons this half-term, we will be learning about place value, with a focus on place value – understanding the value of digits in numbers and different ways we can make numbers up to 10,000.
We will be using diennes, counters, place value charts and other resources to support us with this!
Reading
In our shared reading lessons, we will be developing our skills by reading and understanding texts across a range of genres - both fiction and non-fiction. Our main focus will be on understanding vocabulary and improving our inference and retrieval skills.
Writing
In our writing lessons, we will be using Land of Roar as a stimulus to write Non-Chronological reports, with a focus on relative clauses and technical vocabulary. As well as this, we will be writing our own adventure stories, inspired by Roar – taking our audience on an exciting adventure.
Wider Curriculum
History- The Anglo-Saxon and Viking invasion.
D&T- Automata Toys
Science- Living things and their habitats.
PE- Invasion games (hockey and basketball)