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: Miss Carter. In the mornings, we will be supported by Mrs Anderson.
Important Information
PE
5 Sycamore have PE on a Monday and Friday Monday we will have outdoor P.E. and Friday 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 basketball.
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.
Homework is available weekly for children to take home and complete and bring back into school on a Wednesday.
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 Friday 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.
Monday 2nd September 2024 - Inset day
Monday 4th November 2024 - Inset day
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, 'How to catch a star' for our sentence stacking lessons to apply our learning in our independent write based on our own re tell of the story. Throughout the rest of the half term, we will be using the text 'Lights on cotton rock' to support us write from a different point of view.
In guided reading we will be using the fiction text, 'The Jamie Drake Equation' by Christopher Edge and also a range non fictional texts to support our curriculum that link to other subjects such as science, PSHE, history and geography.
Maths
Maths this half term we are focusing on our unit of place value. We will look at rounding, comparing and ordering, partitioning, estimating and negative numbers. We will learn new knowledge and apply prior knowledge to help us with our learning.
Topic - Science, Geography, History.
This term we are focusing on the topic of, 'Out of this world'. We will learn all about our solar system, longitude and latitude, the space race and first piloted flying machine. All our learning will link throughout the term nicely to our reading and writing units too.
Design technology and art
This term we are completing our DT. piece of work, designing and making our very own moving Mars rover. We will also be print making in our art lessons.
Religious Education
In RE, we will be looking at the theme of 'Pilgrimage' and the key question of 'Why are some places and journeys special?'. We will be studying the religions of Isalm, Christianity, Judaism and Sikhism throughout this unit.
PSHE - My Happy Mind
Our PSHE lessons involves using a new scheme, My Happy Mind. It will support children's mental health and help them understand how to thrive by understanding their emotions.
Music
This half term the children will be having weekly samba lessons on a Friday afternoon.
Author Focus
His novels The Many Worlds of Albie Bright, The Jamie Drake Equation, The Infinite Lives of Maisie Day and The Longest Night of Charlie Noon have all been nominated for the prestigious CILIP Carnegie Medal, and he has also won several awards for his children’s fiction including the STEAM Children’s Book Prize and the Brilliant Book Award.
