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!

PRAYER

In Year 5 we focus on the following prayers.  Please support your child to pray these at home.

Welcome to the Summer Term.

Below you will find information about what your child will be learning this term. 

Values and virtues

Intentional: planning our actions and choosing to live how God wants us to. Every action we make has an impact on other people and the world around us. If we live intentionally, we listen to our conscience and deliberately decide that the actions we take will have a positive impact. We use the earth’s resources wisely, think about the choices we make, and care for God’s creation.

Prophetic: spreading the word of God through how we live our lives. As we choose to act intentionally and make good decisions, we encourage others to do the same. We set a good example through our words and deeds and inspire other people to act in a positive and wise way. We help people to make the right decisions themselves and think about how God wants them to live their lives.

Pentecost

Know about the transformation of the Apostles of Jesus They will know that the Holy Spirit is included in the Church’s belief in the Holy Trinity They will be able to discuss some of the qualities of the Holy Spirit.

Marriage and Holy orders

The rite of the Sacraments

The work of a Priest, Bishop and Deacon.

Earth and Space

Describe 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 use the idea of the Earth’s rotation to explain day and night, and the apparent movement of the sun across the sky.

Welcome to the Summer Term.

Below you will find information about what we will be learning this term. 

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

Easter 

The Easter Vigil 

Compare and contrast accounts of the Resurrection 

The Ascension views and feelings 

The creed

Curriculum

Off with her head

What sort of man would order the death of his wife? Was she really that bad? 

Travel back in time to the 1500’s and meet the terrible Tudors, a domineering dynasty that changed our History.  Discover an opulent court where dancing and singing goes hand in hand with swift falls from favour and even swifter falling of heads.

Big question:

Can we change the rules to suit us?

Science: Animals including humans

We will be looking at the changes as humans develop to old age including: a human timeline, gestation periods, growth of babies and the changes that take place during puberty.

This term's value and virtues are learned and wise.

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

This term is the liturgical season of Lent.  We will learn about the sacrament of Reconciliation, responding to temptation and how to follow Jesus. We also will learn how significant the events of Holy Week is.

Forces 

Will will learn that unsupported objects fall towards the Earth because of the force of gravity acting between the Earth and the falling object. To identify the effects of air resistance, water resistance and friction, that act between moving surfaces. We will also learn recognise that some mechanisms including levers, pulleys and gears allow a smaller force to have a greater effect.

Curriculum

We will be continuing our topic: Peasants, Princes and Pestilence

The children will be learning about the impact of the Black Death, famous kings throughout the Medieval times and create artwork using chalks.

Values and Virtues: Eloquent and truthful

Eloquence must be used in a truthful way – to speak truth about myself and others, about relations between people, about the world, and about God.  Education is the search for truth and the eloquent articulation of what we discover.  As Jesus tells us, “The truth will set you free.” (John 8:32)

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.

The children will be learning about the Black Death understanding human factors which caused the Black death to spread in London and using sources to investigate the Plague. 

RE

The children will be learning about the main features of the Christmas story and understanding the story from different perspectives.

Science 

Properties and Changes of Materials - We will be looking at how mixtures might be separated through filtering, sieving and evaporating and setting up fair test to investigate uses of everyday materials.

Values and Virtues: Faith-filled and Hopeful

Pupils are growing to be Faith-filled in their beliefs and hopeful for the future. 

RE

Parables and the sayings of Jesus

Exploring the parables of Jesus and 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

Properties of Materials

We will 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. We will also give reasons, based on evidence from comparative and fair tests, for the particular uses of everyday materials, including metals, wood and plastic.

Values & Virtues:  Compassionate and Loving

Compassionate: We are compassionate when we feel sympathy and concern for other people who are in difficulty, whether they are near to us or far away. 

Loving: We are loving when we show our sympathy and concern for other people by our actions and by our words.

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 

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. We’ll make detailed drawings of our minibeasts, present data about them and make maps to show the route of our minibeast hunt. 

In Science, we will be learning about living things and their habitats. We will describe the life cycles of of a mammal, an amphibian, an insect and a bird. We will also describe the life process of reproduction in some plants and animals.

OUR CLASS SAINT: ST. MARTIN DE PORRES

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