5 Sycamore
Welcome to 5 Sycamore
Welcome to 5 Sycamore's Home Page, here you will find lot's of useful information that you may need.
In Year 5, We incorporate Orchard's three curriculum drivers into everything we do.
Respect, Responsibility and Aspiration.
This year we will constantly 'Dream Big and Dare to Fail'. We will always try our best and understand that each and every one of us is amazing and unique in our special way!
Staff
This year the staff in 5 Sycamore will be:
Teacher - Miss Carter. In the mornings, we will also be supported by Mrs Anderson. We also have Miss Khan, a student teacher training with us. Miss Cherryholme will be teaching in our class on a Wednesday morning while Miss Carter has PPA.
Important Information
PE
5 Sycamore have PE on a Monday and Tuesday, Monday we will have outdoor P.E. and Tuesday indoor P.E. On P.E. days we will need to come to school in our P.E. kits and we stay in them for the day. Please make sure all items are clearly labelled with the children's names on.
This half term our focus is athletics.
It is important to keep hydrated throughout the school day so we have a bottle of fresh water in the classroom with our names on. We have water fountains in school to refill these when needed.
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We follow a weekly timetable where we also complete picture news and online safety toolboxes.
New spelling rules are also focused on every week, completing a range of activities on a daily basis to help with our learning of new spellings.
In 5 Sycamore, we LOVE to read! We need to take our library books home with us to read, in which we swap on a 2 weekly basis where we visit the library and choose our own choice of book. We will read everyday for at least half an hour in school and should try to read to ourselves; adults or to our siblings at least three times a week at home.
Key Dates
On Monday and Tuesday we will have PE - so please ensure that you come in your PE Kit and a spare pair of pumps or trainers if you prefer not to be bare footed if we are in the hall due to weather.
Tuesday 29th and Wednesday 30th April 2025 - Parents evening
Monday 5th May 2025 - Bank holiday
Monday 12th May 2025 - Mental health awareness week
Thursday 12th June - Parent stay and learn session in the afternoon
Thursday 3rd June 2025 - Reports go out to parents/carers
Friday 18th July - break up for summer holiday
This half term we will be learning ...
English
This half term we will be beginning our writing a fiction piece of work based on the text, 'Fagin's girl' to apply our learning in our independent write based on our writing a setting description in Victorian London. We will use our reading and oracy skills throughout to improve our creative writing skills.
In 5 Sycamore we take home library books that can be changed bi-weekly and any reading at home can be logged on Boom reader (see link below)
Maths
Maths this half term we are focusing on our unit of decimals. We will look at adding, subtracting, and converting decimals into fractions and percentages. We will learn new knowledge and apply prior knowledge to help us with our learning.
Topic - Science, Geography, History.
We have changed the way we teach our Foundation Curriculum and now we will teach lessons such as History, Geography, Art and DT through an umbrella topic. This term's topic in Year 5 is 'Victorian Britain'. We will continue to teach History, Geography, Art and DT separately but they will follow a theme where possible.
We will learn all about Victorian Britain, their settlements, and changes made to history during this time. All our learning will link throughout the term nicely to our reading and writing units too. We will be looking into a case study of Saltaire.
For science our topic will be, 'Living things and their habitats'. We will look at how animals and plants reproduce and life cycles.
Design technology and art
This term we are completing our D.T. and art lessons on photgraphy and creating and caputring abstract images through photography to complete our final piece of making our own photo montage.
Religious Education
In RE, we will be looking at the theme of 'Forgiveness and the key question of 'Should we forgive others?' The religions we will focus on are Christianity and humanism.
PSHE - My Happy Mind
Our PSHE lessons involves using a new scheme, My Happy Mind.
My Happy Mind teaches children about looking after their mental health and wellbeing by teaching them through 5 key areas:
- Meet Your Brain
- Celebrate
- Appreciate
- Relate
- Engage
Music
This half term the children will be having weekly samba lessons on a Friday afternoon.
