WELCOME TO YEAR 5

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

Miss Bhatti and Dr Mishra

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 every Monday and every other Thursday. Make sure you come to school in your PE kit wit appropriate footwear 

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!

Values for this Half term : Intentional and Prophetic 

Pupils are growing to be intentional in the way we live and use the resources of the earth, guided by conscience; and prophetic in the example we set to others. 

Building the Kingdom

We are very proud to be a part of the Building the Kingdom programme, the aim of which is to embed distinctive Catholic Curriculum design for the transformation of society. As said on their website, ‘through the National School of Formation, a dynamic and challenging approach to teaching and learning in a Catholic School has been developed. This initiative calls for the contextualising of all learning within the beliefs and values of the Gospel and the Catholic tradition, aspiring to reach the highest possible levels of learning. We call it Building the Kingdom…’

Through Building the Kingdom, we explore the big questions of purpose and meaning that arise throughout the Liturgical year, and then create lessons and events which engage students with the skills needed to be agents for a Spirit fuelled transformation of society.  

Through our curriculum work this term we will be focusing on

Catholic Social Teaching- Human Dignity

British Value- Democracy and rule of law. 

RE: This half term we will be studying the unit 'Parables and Advent'

Parables- Exploring the parables of Jesus and know that they contain some messages about living as followers of Christ today. To find 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. They will know and discuss the messages of those who have proclaimed the Coming of Christ.

Science

This term, we are learning about properties and changes of materials.

Compare and group together everyday materials on the basis of their properties, including their hardness, solubility, transparency, conductivity (electrical and thermal), and response to magnets. Give reasons, based on evidence from comparative and fair tests, for the particular uses of everyday materials. 

OUR CLASS SAINT: ST. MARTIN DE PORRES