Each day begins with handwriting for 10 minutes, where we practise our cursive joins to ensure fluency throughout all of our writing. Guided reading follows this, as we study a range of fiction, non-fiction and poetry texts. In particular, this year, we will visit Hogwarts when studying Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone, the ruins of Whitby Abbey through Room 13 and follow Shackleton on his journey to Antarctica.
We will dive into our first mathematics topic of place value in Autumn, leading us to consolidation of the four operations. Throughout the Spring term, we explore fractions, decimals and percentage before expanding our existing knowledge of geometry and measurement in the final term.
Following our writing scheme with Literacy Tree, we are very fortunate to explore a range of texts to compose pieces of writing covering a range of genres including, a non-chronological report, biography, prequel, poem and newspaper.
This year will be filled to the brim with awe and wonder across the curriculum. We will explore: Ancient Egypt, the Mayan civilisation and World War One in History; sustainability, mountains and National Parks in Geography and internet safety, 3D modelling and coding in Computing just to name a few exciting topics.
In Science, we begin Year 5 by exploring the mechanics associated with forces and movement and celestial bodies within our solar system. Later, we will delve into properties of materials, including exhilarating investigations surrounding reversible and irreversible changes. We will end the year with our topics on life cycles, changes, and growth.
We are very lucky to have links with our local church and will welcome Joseph into our RE lessons to deliver workshops alongside our teachers when studying the key questions: is the Christmas story true and was it part of God’s plan for Jesus to die? Moving away from the Christian faith, we will also study Sikhism in the summer term.
In DT, we focus heavily this year on creating prototypes based on design briefs, including suspension bridges and Chinese kites. While in Art, we will explore portraits, African printing and textiles.
Each week, we will continue to develop our linguistic skills in French covering topics such as pets, weather and clothing.
Within PSHE, we will explore themes surrounding safe relationships, money and keeping safe for example, when enjoying the sun. Within our career topic, we will also begin to discuss our futures, which is always an exciting time when we discover the various educational paths and employment opportunities available to us.
A lesson everyone seems to lose themselves in is music! We sing, compose and perform pieces from a variety of genres throughout the school year from traditional South-African ballads to K-Pop.
To support our learning, we have also organised educational visits to the National Space Centre and Treak Cliff Cavern, alongside specialist guest speakers and visitors.
