Class 5

Welcome to Class 5

Miss E Edwards

Spring Term

Please see below for details about what the children will be studying throughout the term.

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Our Class Saint

Year 5's class saint is Saint Teresa of Calcutta. We celebrated her feast day on the 5th September.

English

This term, children will be focusing on a film narrative called 'The Piano'. Children will understand the key features of the film and investigate the thoughts and feelings of the characters in the film. Children will learn how to correctly include speech in their work, as well as and will understand how to vary sentence structure and use a variety of sentence types (simple, compound and complex sentences). Children will finish the unit by producing their own narrative, including these new language features. 

Maths

Units covered:

Unit 7- Multiplication and Division (2)

Unit 8- Fractions (3)

Unit 9- Decimals and Percentages 

Unit 10- Measure: Perimeter and Area

Unit 11- Graphs and Tables

Guided Reading

In addition to our English lessons, the children will also have two Guided Reading sessions a week. The text focus will change each week (meaning we get to read a range of fiction, non-fiction and poetry.) In these sessions, we will focus on using our VIPERS skills.

These consist of vocabulary, inference, prediction, explanation, retrieval and summarising.

Science

In Science, we are investigating 'animals and other living things', during which children will continue to use their scientific skills to classify, research and draw conclusions. This term we will focus on how to ensure we can conduct comparative and fair tests to investigate our hypothesis.

RE

Through our RE lessons this half term, we will be exploring the sacrament of baptism, focusing in on its initiation into God’s family. We will also explore some parables & saying of Jesus, which will help us to grow in faith. We will also follow the Liturgical year by studying Lent and Holy Week. We will study some important texts from the New Testament about Christian living and will learn about the Sacrament of Reconciliation as a Sacrament of Healing and God’s forgiveness.

Geography

We are looking at Earthquakes and Volcanoes, beginning with identifying the four layers of the Earth. As we progress, we will identify, describe and understand key aspects of physical geography before the children then turn their focus to the effects of Earthquakes. We will also be investigating how governments and organisations help when natural disasters happen.

History

Throughout the term, Year 5 will be delving into the past and will be exploring the lives and legacies of the Ancient Mayans. We will be investigating why they were able to survive for so long but ultimately conquered by the Spanish. Throughout this term we will be using lots of different skills to evaluate and understand different sources of information.

Art

Art will be taught by Miss Daws this year and they will be focusing on the work of the famous artist Alberto Giacometti.

For Art this term, children will be studying the artists work through the medium of sculptures. The children will initially research the artist to understand his most famous works, background as well as the historical context before making observational drawings using continuous lines. Then moving on to designing sculptures using manipulatives and clay to represent their own interpretations.

Spanish

In Spanish this term, children will start by looking at how to describe what it is in their home, by describing what rooms they have in their homes and what is inside them.

They will then finish the term by looking at different habitats animals live in and how to describe what they look like.

DT

Mechanical Systems- In this unit, children will learn how to make a pop-up book. Within their books, children will include mechanisms and/or structures using sliders, pivots and folds to produce movement. Pupils will follow a design brief to make a pop up book, neatly and with focus on accuracy. They will then be able to demonstrate how their pop up book works to children in Year 1.

P.E

For PE this term, children will be taking part in netball outdoors and core strength and the basic physical skills indoors where children will play a variety of games and develop skills. Mr Huson will help them to continue improving their fitness throughout this time.

Computing

This term, computing will be taught by Miss Watson.

Pupils will be looking at spreadsheets and using a variety of formulas. Later in the term, we will be exploring computer systems and networks.