Welcome to  Year 5

Chestnut Class – Miss Sharif

Beech Class – Miss Walmsley

Long Term Plan Y5

 

HELPING YOUR CHILD AT HOME

Year 5 is an important year for developing independence, confidence and strong learning habits. Small amounts of regular practice at home can make a big difference.

READ EVERY DAY

Aim for 20 minutes of reading every day.

Encourage your child to:

• Read independently and regularly.
• Read a variety of books, including fiction, non-fiction, poetry, newspapers and magazines.
• Talk about what they have read.
• Explain the meaning of unfamiliar words.
• Make predictions and explain their ideas.
• Find evidence in the text to support their answers.
• Discuss characters, settings, themes and events.
• Read aloud occasionally to develop fluency and expression.

 Ask: “What makes you think that?” or “Can you find evidence in the book?”

 SPELLING & WRITING

Help your child practise their weekly spellings and develop their vocabulary.

Encourage them to:

• Learn common Year 5/6 spelling patterns and words.
• Look for prefixes, suffixes, word families and spelling rules.
• Use a dictionary and thesaurus independently.
• Write for different purposes – stories, letters, reports, explanations, diaries and opinions.
• Write several paragraphs and organise ideas clearly.
• Use ambitious and precise vocabulary.
• Check their own spelling and punctuation.
• Use punctuation accurately, including commas, apostrophes, speech marks and brackets where appropriate.
• Present their work neatly and take pride in handwriting.

National Curriculum Spelling guidance

 

MATHS

TIMES TABLES ARE STILL VERY IMPORTANT

Encourage your child to:

• Know all multiplication and division facts up to 12 × 12.
• Recall facts quickly and accurately.
• Practise mental addition, subtraction, multiplication and division.
• Solve problems involving more than one step.
• Explain how they worked out an answer.
• Work confidently with fractions, decimals and percentages.
• Find fractions and percentages of amounts.
• Add, subtract, multiply and divide using appropriate methods.
• Multiply and divide by 10, 100 and 1,000.
• Work with money, including calculating change and comparing prices.
• Read timetables and calculate durations.
• Measure, estimate and compare.
• Explore perimeter, area, shape and angles.Read and interpret tables, charts and 
• graphs.

 Everyday maths: cooking, shopping, budgeting, measuring, telling the time and working out journeys are all great opportunities to practise.

 TALK, TALK, TALK!

Talking helps children develop their vocabulary and reasoning skills.

Ask questions such as:

• “Why do you think that?”
• “How do you know?”
• “Can you explain your answer?”
• “What evidence do you have?”
•  “Is there another way?”
• “What might happen if…?”
• “Can you use a better word to describe that?”

Encourage your child to explain their thinking rather than simply give an answer.

LEARN THROUGH EVERYDAY LIFE

Learning happens everywhere.

Encourage your child to:

• Help with shopping and calculate totals, change and discounts.
• Help with cooking and measuring ingredients.
• Read signs, maps, timetables and instructions.
• Discuss news and events in an age-appropriate way.
• Visit the library or explore museums and places of interest.
• Research things they are interested in.
• Write shopping lists, messages, instructions or short reviews.
• Take responsibility for organising their belongings and routines.
• Complete simple tasks independently.

 CAN YOUR CHILD…?

☐ Read independently for 20 minutes and talk confidently about what they have read.

☐ Explain the meaning of unfamiliar vocabulary.

☐ Find evidence in a text to support their ideas.

☐ Make predictions and explain their reasoning.

☐ Identify themes, characters and important events in a text.

☐ Spell common Year 5/6 words and use spelling rules and patterns.

☐ Write several well-organised paragraphs independently.

☐ Use a range of punctuation accurately.

☐ Use a dictionary and thesaurus independently.

☐ Recall all multiplication and division facts up to 12 × 12.

☐ Answer times-table questions quickly and accurately.

☐ Solve problems involving all four operations.

☐ Explain their mathematical reasoning.

☐ Work confidently with fractions, decimals and percentages.

☐ Multiply and divide by 10, 100 and 1,000.

☐ Tell the time and calculate durations.

☐ Use money, measuring and weighing confidently.

☐ Read and interpret charts, tables and graphs.

☐ Work independently and take responsibility for their learning.

 MOST IMPORTANTLY…

Praise effort, perseverance and independence.

Your child does not need to spend hours doing homework. Regular, short bursts of practice are much more effective.

A great daily routine:

•  20 minutes reading
•  Spelling practice
•  Times tables / mental maths
•  A little problem-solving
•  Talk about what they have learned

Thank you for supporting your child’s learning at home.