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 Tuesday and Thursday. 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 

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 : 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.

One of the most important ways we become learned and wise is by watching the actions and listening to the teaching of Jesus Christ.

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-Solidarity and Common Good

British Value- Tolerance 

RE: This half term we will be studying the unit ' Marriage and Holy Orders'

We will recall the promises made in Marriage and key tasks of the Archbishop, Priests and deacons. Explain the meaning of the Body of Christ as a term for roles and responsibilities in the Church.

Science

This term, we are learning about Earth and Space

We will be learning to 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, describe the Sun, Earth and Moon as approximately spherical bodies and use the idea of the Earth’s rotation to explain day and night, and the apparent movement of the sun across the sky.

Values & Virtues for this term: 

Eloquent and Truthful

Eloquent: the ability to speak or write fluently, persuasively and appropriately. We are eloquent when we use language to express our ideas or opinions clearly and with conviction. When we choose our words, we should do so carefully so they are kind and compassionate, and don’t hurt others. Eloquence isn’t limited to speaking and writing. We can express ourselves in other ways like music, drama, painting or dance. We should use our creative gifts to say things in a way that is interesting, truthful, memorable and faithful. 

Truthful: God wants us to be truthful in all we do. Jesus said, ‘I am the way, the truth and the life’, so being honest and truthful means we are following in his footsteps and living life the way God wants us to. Being truthful is being faithful to ourselves and to Jesus. We should stand up for the truth.

RE

Easter 

We will be looking at the different parts of the Easter Vigil, comparing and contrasting accounts of the Resurrection, exploring the disciples’ views and feelings during the Ascension and learning about the Creed.

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.

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

We will be start the Spring term by covering the unit on 'Christmas'  understanding the main features of the Christmas Story and learning about some of the difficulties faced by the different characters in the story. In our second unit 'Baptism' we will be looking at the Gospel accounts of the Baptism of Jesus and describe, sequence and explain many of the signs, symbols and actions in the Sacrament of Baptism.

This terms topic:

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. This term we will be learning about how the Black Death spread, symptoms and treatments.

Changes to materials

This term we will describe how to recover a substance from a solution; demonstrate that dissolving, mixing and changes of state are reversible changes; and finally, they learn how to explain that some changes result in the formation of new materials and that this kind of change is not usually reversible.

Values & Virtues:  

Attentive & Discerning

Attentive: We are attentive when we listen to our calling from God to love and serve one another in all that we do. We are attentive to our experiences and can see where they will take us in our future vocations. 

Discerning: We are discerning when we decide to do the right thing in the interest of the needs of others because we know the positive impact that will have on their lives.

Values and virtues: Grateful and Generous

Pupils are growing to be grateful for their own gifts, for the gift of other people, and for the blessings of each day; and generous with their gifts, becoming men and women for others.

Schools help their pupils grow by encouraging them to know and be grateful for all their gifts, developing them to the full so that they can be generous in the service of others.

RE Autumn Term 

Creation 

We will be studying the creation story and creating our own art based on the story. We will also be looking at the Canticles of creation written by Saint Francis of Assisi and writing our own.

Miracles and the Sacrament of the Sick

We will be exploring the miracles of Jesus, learning about different places of Pilgrimage and 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.