Rode Heath Primary School
Year 5 2024 - 2025
Miss Watson
I am delighted to be joining Rode Heath Primary School. I have spent two years in Cheshire East, working predominantly in Key Stage 2. This will be my third year with a Year 5 cohort and I can't wait to get stuck in! I strive to make learning fun and exciting for the children - I love the arts and the outdoors, so I try to bring these into my lessons at every opportunity. Outside of school, I enjoy a range of sports from running to badminton and spending time with my little boy.
Mrs Harrop
I am very excited to begin my next chapter at Rode Heath Primary School as a teaching assistant. After twenty years as a teacher, I have opted for a change and I love it.
I live with my husband, our two young girls and our 24 chickens. In my spare time I love to go on mini adventures with my girls, either to new parks, National Trust places, find new places to walk or go out for dinner. We particularly love going up to the Scottish Highlands and spending time in a family holiday home and exploring the lochs, walking and getting lots of fresh air. I also love gardening and baking lots of delicious treats for family and friends! I am looking forward to working with the Year 4 children this year.
Welcome to Year 5
Welcome back! We hope you have had a lovely holiday and enjoyed spending time with your loved ones.
We have an exciting start to our Spring term ahead. Our exploration into Viking times will continue in our History topic, looking at the impact they had on our society and culture. This will be accompanied by our new English text, Arthur and the Golden Rope; a graphic novel-style book retelling a Norse myth, rich with adventure and mystery. Our class reading book, Odd and the Frost Giants, will help us dive deeper into the storytelling of such a fascinating time period. Lessons across the curriculum will be stimulating and engaging as we explore this topic and others - for further information on what we are diving into this term, take a look at our curriculum map (you will find it at the bottom of this page).
We will also be following our Maths - No Problem! scheme of work, which incorporates lessons linking to real-life problems. Furthermore, it ensures that topics are covered from previous years so that children have a great understanding of maths and how it can be applied.
Alongside all of this, we are very much aware of the importance of children being happy, safe and secure in school and to help us do this, we follow our Hearts and Minds curriculum. We will be exploring how we can build resilience and encourage curiosity this half term. More information about our Hearts and Minds curriculum can be found using this link: Hearts and Minds.
Thank you for your continued support. It is going to be a great year!
Continuing the Learning Journey...
Week Beginning: Monday 20th January 2025
Maths: We will be exploring and solving problems involving subtracting fractions.
English: We will be writing descriptions of interactions between Norse Gods Thor and Loki.
Religion and Worldviews: We will be exploring Muslim beliefs about the afterlife by investigating sources.
Hearts and Minds: Online Safety.
Art: We will be using looking at the foreground, middle ground and background for our boat sketches.
Design & Technology: We will be carrying out research to develop design criteria.
Geography: We will be exploring the importance of energy.
Science: We will be identifying the effects of air resistance, water resistance and friction, that act between moving surfaces.
PE: We will be having coach-led netball and teacher-led gymnastics.
Music: We will be using tuned percussion to play a chord progression in our song, Shosholoza.
Weekly Reminders:
- Homework is set on a Thursday and due in on a Thursday: Atom Learning Maths and PAG. Spellings are separate but also released and due in on a Thursday.
- Please ensure your child is filling in their reading diary on a daily basis.
- Practise timestables on a daily basis using Times Table Rockstars.
- Children to come in PE kits for the whole day on Mondays and Tuesdays for their PE lessons. PE will be outdoors on Tuesdays, so please wear appropriate kit.
- If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to write in your child's reading diary and it will be responded to ASAP.
Here is a link to the book that I recommend you purchasing to help your child with the KS2 grammar, punctuation and spelling expectations:
Renaissance Link for reading click here.
In order to find year group expectations for maths, please click here, scroll down and click on the overview.
For year group expectations for English, please click here, scroll down and click on the overview.
The expectations for science and the foundation subjects can be found by selecting the relevant heading from here.
To access the Atom Learning homework platform, please click here.
Key Dates:
24th - 26th March 2025 - York Residential
Don't forget to visit our Think Like an Engineer website regularly, to see what we're all busy doing:
https://thinklikeanengineerproject.com