and Woodpeckers' Class Page!
Welcome to Year 5, Miss Burgon is your class teacher.
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In the Year 5 class we also have Mrs Golding as our TA.
Please note that our PE days for this half term are Tuesday and Wednesday. Remember to come to school already changed into your PE kit on your PE days. Swimming will begin on Tuesday 4th June, don't forget to bring your swimming kit with you to school on that day! Other swimming days are: 11th, 18th, 25th of June and 2nd July.
Don't forget out exciting School Trip to Cromford Mill on the 20th September
Our Topic this Term is the Industrial Revolution
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Week 1. |
When did the industrial revolution take place? |
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Week 2. |
Who was Richard Arkwright? Why was he significant? |
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Week 3. |
Visit to Cromford and Arkwright’s Mill – What is the importance of Cromford Mills? How are mills linked to the Industrial Revolution? |
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Week 4. |
Follow on session from the field work study last week – mapping the area |
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Week 5. |
Where did Richard Arkwright build his first water-powered mill and why did he choose this place? |
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Week 6. |
Why were lots of cotton mills built along the Derwent Valley in Derbyshire? What impact did the building of factories have on the Derwent Valley? |
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Week 7 |
What was it like to work at the mills and live in Cromford? |
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Half Term |
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Week 8 |
What leisure activities would workers have participated in? |
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Week 9 |
What other important inventions were made during the 18th and 19th centuries? |
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Week 10 |
When was the railway and canal developed at Cromford? How did transport affect the development of the industrial age? |
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Week 11 |
How did the lives of people change? Were they improved or made worse? |
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Week 12 |
Comparisons of live for the rich and poor – use of images from the time |
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Week 13 |
What was the reaction to Arkwright, his machines and his factory mill system? |
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Homework: A homework sheet will be given out at the start of term. One piece per week to be completed until the end of term.
In Literacy, the children will read a range of texts based around our Industrial Revolution topic
The first text that we will be studying is You Wouldn't Want to Work in a Victorian Mill. This book describes the many dangerous jobs performed by children who worked in the cotton mills of industrial England in the nineteenth century, work that included long hours, low pay, and no provision for school work. This book does a fantastic job of teaching you about people in that time, sharing the hardships of the times, the work, but also shares the historical facts/changes/events of the time surrounding this industry, as well the very in-depth details of what people did back then.
The second book we will be studying is 'Street Child.' The book tells a fictional account of the experiences of Jim Jarvis, a young orphan who escapes the workhouse in 1860's London and survives brutal treatment and desperate circumstances until he is taken in by Dr. Barnardo, founder of a school for the city's "ragged" children.
Our last book that we will read is 'Cogheart.' In the books, Lily’s life is in mortal peril. Her father is missing and now silver-eyed men stalk her through the shadows. What could they want from her?
With her friends—Robert, the clockmaker’s son, and Malkin, her mechanical fox—Lily is plunged into a murky and menacing world. Too soon Lily realizes that those she holds dear may be the very ones to break her heart.
We will use the texts to develop our reading and writing skills.
We are covering the following skills in Numeracy this term:
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Place Value Roman Numerals Read and write numbers up to 1000000 Partition Numbers Number lines to 10,000 Compare and order numbers Round numbers up to 1000000 Addition and subtraction Mental strategies Round to check Inverse Operations Multi-step addition Find Missing numbers Multiplication and Division Common factors Prime Numbers Square Numbers Multiply by 10,100,1000 Divide by 10,100,1000
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It is ESSENTIAL that your child fluently knows their times tables both division facts and multiplication and have quick recall on these. This is ongoing homework for them and is vital to their progress this year - they should have their x tables rockstars password and every Friday whoever is the highest in their challenge group will be rewarded and they will be celebrated in class. If you do not have it then please email me.
We are very excited to be starting work on our new values system when we come back in school in January. Each week we have a new value – 12 in total. Our first value will be Respect. The children will have an assembly Monday morning about how to show and give respect to others both in school and at home! We will be expecting this to be demonstrated to all members of our Coppice community, it is important that even when we move onto a new value, the old one isn’t lost.
Our new core values will now form the basis of our ambassador passports (these have now been renamed – core value passports and the children can achieve their bronze, silver and gold awards throughout the year for each core value. We will of course keep you informed about how your child is getting on with this throughout the year.
Each week Mrs Seaton will sent out a Newsletter that will reflect the value we are working on so that it can also be supported at home. We look forward to seeing our children bright and early ready to embrace the new weekly challenges!
Reading: 
Reading as much as possible will really help your child’s progress at school. For their learning passport they must have read three times a week all term. It is very important that they understand what they are reading a few minutes spent asking questions about what has been read helps children to develop comprehension skills which are vital to their education. We also have a competition running in school each week. The number of times each child in the class each week is added up and the class that has read the most receives a prize in our Star Assembly on a Friday morning.
Thursday 5th September Back to school
Tuesday 17th September First Swimming
Friday 20th September Cromford School Trip
Thursday 10th October Hello Yellow Day