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 Summer Term 2 

Lives of the Apostles 

Who where the apostles?

How did they preach the Gospel?

Saint Stephen 

Saint Peter and Saint Paul 

Marriage and Holy Orders 

Finding out about the sacraments 

The order of service

The meaning of a promise 

The work of Archbishop Bernard 

Visit from Father Benedict 

Roll up, roll up! We’re going on a day trip to a theme park! This half term, we’ll write poems to capture the excitement of riding a roller coaster and investigate the wonders of centripetal force. After carrying out fair tests to investigate the materials used to make roller coasters, we’ll create prototype rides of our own. Let’s hope we choose the right materials! In our computing work, we’ll upload photographs of rides and examine online theme park maps. Then, we’ll use advanced techniques and commands to search for information on the internet. In English, we’ll write stories, signs and emails about theme parks and investigate forces by making a ride. We’ll design a roller coaster using software such as Scratch and look at online advertising. At the end of the ILP, we’ll write non-fiction books, using a variety of sources including online information. We’ll use software to write computer programs, and deliver a presentation to advertise a ride. Finally, we’ll make some delicious fairground food for everyone to enjoy!

RE Summer Term 1 

Easter

The Easter vigil

Compare and contrast accounts of the Resurrection

The Ascension views and feelings

The creed

The work of the Apostles 

who were the Apostles?

To know about the preaching of the Apostles 

The sacrifices the Apostles made to follow Jesus 

Sacrifices we need to make to follow Jesus 

 

 

 

Pupils are growing to be compassionate towards others, near and far, especially the less fortunate; and loving by their just actions and forgiving words.

Schools help their pupils grow by being compassionate and loving in the way pupils are treated, especially when a pupil is in trouble; and by opening pupils’ eyes to those who suffer poverty, injustice or violence.

Time stops for no man – not even us! This half term, we’ll meet people from different generations to find out what life was like in the past and we’ll predict how things might change in the future. Using real portraits from the past for inspiration, we’ll write character descriptions about the people in them. We’ll create a timeline of our lives and watch a time-lapse of human development. By taking close-up photographs, we’ll be able to create our own Andy Warhol style prints and experiment to see how photographs can be changed and enhanced. Smile, please! We’ll write adventure stories about the fascinating subject of time travel. Our science work will focus on puberty and why hygiene is important. We’ll also create clock artwork based on the style of Salvador Dali. At the end of the ILP, we’ll make collages to represent our hopes and dreams and create an electronic time capsule that represents life in the present day.

Spring 2 Off with her head (Tudors) 

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.

Pupils in a are growing to be attentive to their experience and to their vocation; and discerning about the choices they make and the effects of those choices

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.