English

In Year 5, we will be working on the Year 3 and 4 words that we aren't as confident with, as well as working on the Year 5 words. Please see below for a complete list of words, as well as a menu of spelling activities to help make learning more enjoyable.

Autumn 1

04.09.24

This week, the children have been looking at Legends.  We have talked a lot about Myths, Legends and Folktales. 

Human beings have been telling stories since they first learned to speak. And even before we could speak, we managed to tell stories by drawing and painting pictures on the walls of the caves we lived in.

Once upon a time, long, long ago, there lived some  great storytellers.

Their stories have been passed down, retold, translated, adapted and, more recently, written down, because everyone loves a good story!

Do some of your favourites include haunting and murder, treasure and battle, wicked deeds and heroic actions?

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King Hrothgar and his people are attacked by the monster, Grendel

 

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Beowulf arrives in Denmark with his warriors to fight with Grendel

 

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Beowulf has defeated Grendel but now he must battle Grendel's mother

 

 

16.09.24

                                           

The children have been looking at the story Legend of Gelert and worked in groups to create a talk 4 write piece.

 

                       

 

Today the children have been learning how to write the end of a descriptive story.

They have been working with their partner to com up with words or phrases to lift their story.

 

Gelert spotted in the corner of the room his loyal, humblr friend drenched with blood.

A thought entered his mind. Wher was his daughter. A horrible truth suddenly appeared in his mind.

Bob was a murderer.

 

           

 

2nd October

 

This week , we are looking at magazine articles. the children will be working on being able to identify the purpose, audience and format of a text and work in groups to analyse a text.

                     

           

Children were given a newspaper and a couple of magazines and discussed as a group what features they can see. 

The main question was ' what makes a reader want to read'?

Autumn 2

                          This term, 5JT will be studying the amazing book called Carrier's War.

Albert, Carrie and young Nick are war-time evacuees whose lives get so tangled up with the people they've come to live among that the war and their real families seem to belong to another world. Carrie and Nick are billeted in Wales with old Mr Evans, who is so mean and cold, and his timid mouse of a sister, Lou, who suddenly starts having secrets.

Please click on the pictures below to help your child to understand the story.  

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18th November

This week, the children have been reading the famous poem Jabberwocky.

Click on the picture below to listen to the poem.

The children have really enjoyed learning all about The Jabberwock. 

They worked in groups and creat a talk4write piece for the poem.

Then they picked out old english words and tried to understand their meaning. Then they create their own versions.

Using Portmanteau ( creating one word by combining two) the chidren had great fun.

Examples of Portmanteau: Slithy means "slimy and lithe" and mimsy means "miserable and flimsy".

Spring 1

7th January 2025

Aquila

Winner of the Whitbread Children's Book of the Year 1997

Two boys bunking off from a geography field trip stumble over Aquila (it means 'eagle' in Latin) in a cave. They've no idea what it is or what it does, but Geoff finds that, when you sit in it, these coloured lights come on. And if you push one of the big blue ones... it flies!

Children will be discussing  what do they know, how do they know and why has the author used certain words such as 'Wail' and 'Encouraging'.

Please click on the Aquila picture to learn more about the author.

The children have been looking at different Sci fi clips to create interest in the genre of science fiction. They have been listening and discussing range of fiction which they might not choose to read for themselves. They have enjoyed reading The Morning An Alien Came To Visit, Hook ,Star Trek and Star Wars.

They have then begann to explore the meaning of the words in the context of science fiction.

Handwriting

The children are given daily lessons to improve their handwring.

Grammar

Click on the picture below to view grammar skill the children are learning.

Spring 2

This term the children will be looking at The Invention of Hugo Cabret.

Brief introduction:

Paris, 1931. Orphan, clock keeper and thief, Hugo lives in the walls of a busy Paris train station, where his survival depends on secrets and anonymity.  But when his world suddenly interlocks – like the gears of the clocks he keeps – with an eccentric, bookish girl and a bitter old man who runs a toy booth in the train station, Hugo’s undercover life and his most precious secret are put in jeopardy.  A cryptic drawing, a treasured notebook, a stolen key, a mechanical man, and a hidden message from Hugo’s dead father form the backbone of this intricate, tender, and spellbinding mystery

The children will be predicting what the story is about, use their inference skills to relate to the story and wonder by looking the the cover of the book.

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