Year 5

                            WELCOME TO YEAR 5

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

Ms Rutkowski, and  Mrs Vandenberg

Year 5 have made a fantastic start to the year.  I am very proud of them all. 

Please read the important information below  which will inform you about what we have been doing and what we are going to do 

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 Thursday (coaching session)  Friday (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 Wednesday and collected in on the following Wednesday. There will be one piece of English work and one piece of Maths work.

Spellings are given out on a Monday and tested the following Monday.

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!

RE Spring Term 

Christmas

Know the main features of the Christmas Story

Baptism

Be able to reference Gospel accounts of the Baptism of Jesus.

 Describe, sequence and explain many of the signs, symbols and actions in the Sacrament of Baptism

Lent

The sacrament of Reconciliation, responding to temptation, how to follow Jesus

Holy Week

The events of Holy Week

Values and Virtues Spring 1

Compassionate and loving 

Spring 1

Peasants Princes and Pestilence

Lock your doors and pull up the drawbridge: the dreaded ‘Great Pestilence’ is here.

At the start of this half term, we’ll meet a strange character and use a range of source materials to research the symptoms of the Black Death. Our geography skills will help us understand how the black death came to Britain and why it spread so quickly. We will find out about disgusting and dangerous plague ‘cures’.

Autumn 2 Pharaohs 

 

Let’s travel back 5000 years to ancient Egypt, cruising along the Nile and entering a world of mysteries, curses and mummies. This half term, we are going to learn first-hand about the gruesome, yet fascinating, process of mummification. We’ll write a report about Howard Carter’s famous discovery and use different sources to research Tutankhamun’s tomb. We’ll also consider whether it was right to open Tutankhamun’s tomb, or whether it should have been left as it was. Our work will inspire us to write some exciting Egyptian mystery stories and non-fiction books and the internet will provide us with information to make fact files. We’ll draw Egyptian artefacts in detail, focusing on symbols and design features. Studying historical sources will help us learn more about the Pharaohs, the Egyptian gods and ancient religious beliefs. We’ll find out about the food that was eaten at the time, make some Egyptian bread and use recycled materials to build model tombs. At the end of the ILP, we’ll think about how the ancient Egyptians contributed to world history, then create and present a guide about ancient Egyptian sites.

Values and virtues Autumn 2 2020

Overview to parents Pharaohs 

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.