Mrs Barker (Class Teacher)
Mrs Chan, Mrs Read and Mrs Talley (Support Staff)
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- Year 5 Reading Intent (155KB)
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Summer 2024
Spring 2024
Welcome back after a restful break. I have been impressed how well Year 5 have returned to school with a great attitude towards their learning.
In English, we have been focusing on a type of story called a circular narrative, this is where a part of the story is then repeated at the end, starting the story all over again. We have been using the story The Promise and its figurative language to write a similar tale. During the rest of term, we will be studying writing genres of persuasion, instructions and the poetry of Walter de la Mare.
In Maths, we are currently focusing on formal written methods for multiplication and division. During the rest of term, we will be studying fractions, decimals & percentages, statistics, perimeter & area.
Ancient Greece and how they influenced modern society is our History topic. We will be looking at areas such as how their society was organised and how the Ancient Greeks contributed to world knowledge. Next half term, we will be studying mountains in Geography where we will be looking at areas such as how mountains are formed, contour lines and climate.
In Art, we are looking at a style of print making called monotypes. We have studied how they are created, looked at famous pieces by Kevork Mourad and replicated parts of his work and style by visual note taking in our sketchbooks. Next half term, in Design and Technology we will be looking at Chinese inventions.
This half term in PE we will be studying gymnastics and after the break it will be netball and hockey.
In PSHE this half term, we will be thinking about our Dreams and Goals considering what we may want to do in the future and how to achieve that goal. After half term, we will be looking at the unit called Healthy Me.
We are all very excited as later this term, Year 5 have got Bikeability and our class residential.
Autumn 2023
Year 5 have made an amazing start to the new academic year. Everyone has settled so well to the new rules and changes in routines, and I cannot wait to share what we have been learning
In English, Year 5 have been busy look at mystery and suspenseful writing. We have been inspired by The Watertower and our class book Boy In The Tower and we are about to create our own suspense story. We are also using Boy in the Tower for our Guided Reading this term. In our next writing unit we will be moving on to recounts where we will use our knowledge from our History lessons. We have been learning about William the Conqueror and will be investigating the type of castle he introduced in England including our local castle at Berkhamsted.
In Maths we have been building on our previous knowledge of place value and learning about place value up to a million, As we move through the term we will be learning and building on previous knowledge of addition and subtraction, multiplication and division together with fractions. I have been really impressed with the work that I have seen!
The children have enjoyed the first couple of Science lessons. We are learning about the properties and changes of material. One of our first lessons was investigating if materials were soluble or insoluble, we made predictions, talked through what makes a fair test, completed the experiment and discussed our conclusions.
In Art, we are learning about the Art of Georgia O’Keefe who is best known for her paintings of flowers and desert landscapes. This term in RE, we are answering the question ‘How far would a Sikh go for his/her religion?’