WELCOME TO YEAR 5

This web-page will be updated with information about our learning journey for your time in Year 5 

Miss Brookes and  Mrs Vandenberg

Reminders for Year 5:

* Please bring a sturdy and clearly named water bottle into school every day.

* Please ensure your reading diary and book are in school every day.

*Please ensure all items of clothing are clearly labelled with your name.

*PE is on a Monday (coaching session)  Thursday (Class session) Make sure you come to school in your PE kit wit appropriate footwear 

* There is no need to bring in any stationery into school, here in year 5 all stationery needed is provided 

* Homework is given out on a Friday and collected in on the following Thursday. There will be one piece of English work and one piece of Maths work.

Please complete at least 3 activities from the Topic Home learning ideas

• Times tables should be practised as often as possible until your child is competent up to multiplications of 12.

• This year, the ‘Reading Challenge’ will continue. If you read at least three times each week (and have evidence of this in your reading record), you will receive a very special reading award pin badge at the end of the year!

Spring One

Values and virtues : Curious and active

Pupils are growing to be curious about everything; and active in their engagement with the world, changing what they can for the better.

RE: This half term we will be learning about

'Christmas'

This term we will be developing our knowledge and understanding of the Christmas story.

 

Peasants, Princes and Pestilence

Flee your fields, close your doors and pull up the drawbridge. The dreaded and deadly Great Pestilence is here. Mount your steed and gallop through the dark and deadly world of 14th century Britain, sword and shield at the ready, pledging your allegiance to king and country.

 

Properties and Changes of Materials

This term we will be comparing and grouping together everyday materials on the basis of their properties. We will also be learning that some materials will dissolve in liquid to form a solution, and describe how to recover a substance from a solution.

 

Values and virtues Learned and Wise

Pupils are growing to be learned, finding God in all things; and wise in the ways they use their learning for the common good.

Schools help their pupils grow by the breadth and depth of the curriculum; by excellence of teaching, and the creation of opportunities to become more learned and wise.

 

RE

Parables and the sayings of Jesus

Exploring parables.  Finding out about the life of Oscar Romero.

Advent 

Know and understand that Christians prepare to remember the first Coming of Christ and prepare for his Second Coming during Advent

                 Science (Physics unit)

Earth and Space-

In this unit, we will look at the movement of the Earth, and other planets, relative to the Sun in the solar system. Describe the movement of the Moon relative to the Earth and describe the Sun, Earth and Moon as approximately spherical bodies.

RE Autumn Term 

 

Creation 

We will be studying the creation story 

Looking at the Canticles of creation written by Saint Francis of Assisi and writing our own and looking at the work of charities such as Cafod

 

Miracles and the Sacrament of the Sick

Exploring the miracles of Jesus 

Places of pilgrimage 

The order of the Sacrament of the Sick 

 

Advent 

The meaning of the word Messiah 

The second coming of the Messiah 

 

Arachnids, insects, molluscs and myriapods. Minibeasts come in all shapes and sizes! This half term, we’ll handle a range of minibeasts and small creatures. Taking photographs, making notes and listening carefully to expert explanations will help us to understand how minibeasts move, what they eat and where they live. Using what we’ve learned, we’ll write an interesting minibeast report. In science, we’ll learn how to categorise minibeasts and investigate woodlice habitats. We’ll make detailed drawings of our minibeasts, present data about them and make maps to show the route of our minibeast hunt. Using wood, stones, garden canes and other natural materials, we’ll create ‘minibeast hotels’ and write adverts to attract minibeasts to stay in them. We’ll create a comic about deadly creatures and use interesting vocabulary to write minibeast poems. Minibeasts’ homes and their life cycles will amaze us and we’ll watch the fascinating process of stick insects hatching. At the end of the project, we’ll write fantasy stories about a minibeast’s adventures, make a fantastic fact file and create a 3-D minibeast using a range of materials.

OUR CLASS SAINT: ST. MARTIN DE PORRES

We will also find out about the life of our Class Saint, St. Martin de Porres.