Welcome to Year 5!

In Year 5, we have 30 happy, hard-working children who are kind and caring.

We enjoy learning about lots of different things and like to share our ideas with each other.

We have many talents which we like to use to help other people and to make the world a better place.

To help us with our work, Mrs Harvey is our class teacher and Mrs Russell is our teaching assistant.

We hope you enjoy reading about our work in Year 5.

Year 5 Timetable

Spring 2

RE

Reconciliation was the focus of our RE week this half term. The children read the Parable of the Prodigal Son and produced some super art work depicting the story. We also learnt about what is involved in the Sacrament of Reconciliation.

ENGLISH

In English, the children read and wrote explanations texts linked to their Geography work about earthquakes and volcanoes. They also wrote persuasive letters linked to our work on palm oil farms in Climate Change Week.

MATHS

Our Maths work this half term focused on fractions: equivalent fractions, comparing fractions, mixed fractions, improper fractions, adding fractions, subtracting fractions and even multiplying fractions!!!

SCIENCE

In Science this half term, the children have learnt about forces. They have learnt about friction and have used a force meter to compare the force needed to move their shoes across the tables and carpet. They have also learnt about gravity, air resistance and water resistance.

GEOGRAPHY

This half term, the children have been learning about earthquakes and volcanoes. At the start of the topic, the children learnt about the structure of the Earth and about the Tectonic Plates. They then learnt about what causes earthquakes and looked at some recent earthquakes to find out what the effects are. We then turned our attention to volcanoes and labelled a diagram of a volcano. After that, we used maps to locate some of the most famous volcanoes in the world.

PE

The children have loved playing golf in our PE lessons this half term. They have practised putting, chipping and driving. We ended the half term by playing a round of golf (9 holes) around the school field with the children recording their scores.

ICT

The children have enjoyed using the new laptops in ICT this half term to complete their work on Databases. They have searched databases, sorted the information and used a real database to find out about flights.

MUSIC

This half term, Year 5 have been lucky to have Mrs James teach them Music. Working in groups, they have used different percussion instruments to create a shimmer.

WORLD BOOK DAY

This year, the children enjoyed dressing up as a word for World Book Day.

Spring 1

RE

This half term, we have been learning about Inspirational People. We have thought about people who we think are inspirational; looked at Bible readings to find out how Jesus taught us to live; learnt about St Josephine Bakhita and read about the life of Father Damian - two inspirational saints.

MATHS

We started the half term by learning about how to find the perimeter and area of different shapes. We then learnt how to use written methods for multiplication and division. We then turned our attention to understanding fractions.

On NSPCC Number Day, we all came dressed wearing different numbers. Our work focused on looking at the cost of energy in our homes. We tried to work out how much we spend every day and ways in which we can save energy.

ENGLISH

Our first focus in English after Christmas, was poetry. We started looking at narrative poems and read “The Listeners” to inspire us to write our own narrative poem. We then linked our English work to our Geography topic of “Mountains”. We watched the short video called “The Ridge” to help us write our own poems using figurative language. We also read different information texts about mountains and then wrote our own.

SCIENCE

We continued our work on materials this half term and looked at what happened when we mixed solids and liquids.

GEOGRAPHY

In Geography, we have been learning about “Mountains”. We have found out about the 7 summits; located mountain ranges in the UK; found out about the different types of mountain and looked at the effects of tourism on mountains.

ART

We used packaging in our Art work to create collages; we then chose part of our collage to enlarge and paint.

PE

Gymnastics was our focus in PE this half term. The children practised balances, jumps, forward rolls, cartwheels and sequences. They particularly enjoyed using the apparatus.

Autumn 2

RE

Our RE topic this half term was “God’s Covenants”. In this unit, we started by looking at the meaning of the word ‘covenant’ and revisited our understanding of God’s covenant with Noah. We then looked at the covenant God made with Moses and the Ten Commandments. Finally, we looked at God’s new covenant by making links to the birth of Jesus and the covenants in the Old Testament.

MATHS

At the start of this half term, we looked at different ways of presenting information using tables, bar charts, line graphs and timetables.

Our next focus was multiplication and division. We learnt about: multiplying and dividing by 10, 100 and 1000; factors of numbers; multiples; prime numbers; square and cube numbers.

ENGLISH

To link in with our History work this half term, we read some different Greek myths including ‘Pandora’s Box’ and ‘The Twelve Labours of Heracles’. We then had a go at writing a new labour for Heracles. This half term, we also looked at writing newspaper reports.

SCIENCE

In Science this half term, we learnt about the properties of materials. During this topic, we investigated different materials and thought about what materials would make good thermal insulators.

HISTORY

Our focus this half term was about the “Ancient Greeks”. We looked at different sources to find out about life in Ancient Greece; compared Sparta to Athens; used the Greek alphabet and compared the Ancient Olympic Games to the Modern Games. We finished the topic by drawing our own Greek pots.

DT

In DT, this half term our focus was bridges. The children worked in pairs to make their own bridges using spaghetti and masking tape.

PE

We have been very lucky to have Mrs Fenton-Green from Prince Henry’s Grammar School teach us badminton this half term. We have loved learning the skills and rules of badminton and then applying them in different games.

Odd Sock Day for Anti-bullying Week

Christmas Activities

School Christmas Dinner

Reindeer Run For the Wheatfield Hospice

Christmas Party

Autumn 1

RE

This half term, we have been leaning about God’s Creation. We started by reading the Creation Story in the book of Genesis and then we created our own pictures. After this, we looked at scientific theories about the creation of the world such as the Big Bang Theory and Evolution; we then discussed how the Biblical story and the scientific theories can fit together. Next, we learnt about how God called us to be stewards of the Earth and discussed what this means. Following this, we thought about how we can use our gifts to make the the world a better place. Finally, we discussed the problem of suffering in the world.

OUR CLASS SAINT FEAST DAY

Year 5’s class saint is Saint Francis of Assisi. We celebrated his feast day at the start of October by: coming to school dressed as various animals; decorating biscuits as animals and making animal bookmarks. As well as this, we found out about Saint Francis’ life and illustrated his prayer.

MATHS

This half term, we have been focusing on Place Value as well as Addition and Subtraction. In Place Value, we have been practising reading, writing, rounding and comparing 6-digit numbers. We have also been using Roman Numerals to write numbers and have used number lines with negative numbers. In Addition and Subtraction, we have been using column written methods to complete these calculations. As well as this, we have been using Times Table Rockstars to improve our Times Table knowledge and speed.

ENGLISH

For the first few weeks of this half term , we studied a book and film called, “The Lost Thing” which the children really enjoyed. It gave us lots of inspiration to write a variety of texts including and we also got to write our own story of a Lost Thing where we tried to use all the grammar and punctuation that we had learnt such as: subordinating clauses, fronted adverbials, adjectives, relative clauses, commas and speech marks.

At the end of this half term, we started our next book, “Hidden Figures” which is about the true story of the lives of four black women and the space race. Our focus when we read this book, was to write a biography.

SCIENCE

Our topic for Science this half term is Space. We have found out about movement of the Earth and other planets in relation to the sun. We have also learnt how day and night are created. I think the children’s favourite lesson was learning about the phases of the moon using Oreo biscuits!

ART

In Art this half term, our focus has been architecture. We started off by doing observational drawings of different houses. We then focused on one part of our drawing to create monoprints.

GEOGRAPHY

Europe has been the focus of our Geography topic. We have used Atlases to locate where Europe is and have labelled some of the different countries and cities. We then turned our attention to the Mediterranean, comparing the climate to that of the UK’s climate.

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