Our class text for Term 1 is, When the Mountain roared by Jess Butterworth.

When the Mountains Roared is the second novel from Jess Butterworth after her first book, Running on the Roof of the World. It has been chosen as a class reader due to its rich descriptive text and because it explores an important theme about preservation. It is also closely linked with our geographical enquiry based on mountains. 

If you enjoy this book, here are some suggestions of other books you might like to read. 

The Ridge

This term, we are focusing our writing based on Danny MacAskill - The Ridge. The outcomes of this topic are for the children to be able to write a re-count.  The skills the children will be learning are to use expanded noun phrases, fronted adverbials and to show how people are feeling instead of telling us. 

Spellings, we are following the Read, Write Inc Scheme which has a different focus each week. The children get to practice their new skills in these lessons and transfer them into their writing.

Place Value and Addition and Subtraction

The first term starts with the children learning place value of numbers up to one million. They will be able to read, write, order and compare numbers to at least a million and determine the value of each digit. Also included in this unit, we will be rounding any number up to 1 million to the nearest 10, 100, 1000, 10000 and 100000.

As the term continues, we will be moving onto addition and subtraction. In this unit, the children will be learning to add and subtract whole numbers with more than 4 digits, using formal written methods. They will be learning the skill of adding and subtracting mentally, using rounding to check answers and focusing on multi-step problems.

Our final unit for term one will be multiplying. In this unit, the children will be learning to multiply numbers up to 4 digits by a 1 digit number using formal written methods.

To help at home, the children can practice their skills by logging onto IXL and TTRockstars.

Year 5 Maths Long Term Plan

Why are certain objects made from particular materials?

This term, the children will be comparing and grouping together everyday materials on the basis of their properties, including their hardness, transparency and conductivity (electrical and thermal).

Throughout the term, the children will be carrying out their own investigations, making comparisons and carrying out fair tests through experiments and making their own decisions on how to record and present their evidence using scientific language. 

Mountains

This term, we will be focusing out learning on Geography to enable us to answer the three big enquiry questions. The questions we will be answering are:

Where in the world?

What are the physical features of mountains?

Should we allow tourism in the mountains?

Our learning starts off with naming and locating counties of the United Kingdom. They will then be comparing and contrasting different regions on their human and physical features. The children will be applying their Atlas skills to their learning throughout the term, as they learn about locating the mountain ranges of the world.  This will lead on to writing a Non-Chronological Report about a mountain of their choice. Towards the end of the term, the children will be conducting research of our local environment to find out if humans are improving this. To help us answer one of our big questions, we will be doing fieldwork of the local area to look at the impact of humans. The children will collect, present and analyse and analyse evidence and draw conclusions. Finally, linking all of our learning, we will be finishing the term by writing a discussion text to answer the final big question.