Year 5

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Welcome to the Year 5 page!

Welcome back to Term 5!   We hope you had a great Easter break and are looking forward to more fun and learning in Year 5.

Curriculum Overview – Term 5

English

Our English learning this term will revolve around the book ‘Granny Came Here On The Empire Windrush’. We are very excited to explore this book and gain a greater insight into the times of Empire Windrush. By the end of the unit, we will have written a narrative of Granny’s journey to England.

Guided Reading 

This term in Guided Reading we are looking at a wide variety of different texts including: ‘The Explorer’ by Katherine Rundell, ‘Journey to the River Sea’, song lyrics and the poetic nature of them and also non-fiction texts. Our Guided Reading sessions aim to provide pupils with opportunities to practice the skills of reading, comprehending and inferring the meaning behind the text.

Maths

This term, we are learning all about statistics, reading and interpreting both line graphs and tables.  We are then going to focus on angles; measuring angles, drawing our own angles.  This will lead us to calculate angles around a point and on a straight line.  Towards the end of the term, we will be learning about regular and irregular polygons and 3D shapes. 

Foundation subjects

RE – Our big question for Term 5 and 6 is ‘Why are some journeys and places special?’ Specifically, this term we are thinking about why a person may go on a pilgrimage and what they might do on this particular journey.

PE – On Monday, we will be developing practising our athletics skills and on Wednesday we will develop our tennis skills.

PHSE – Britain. In this unit, children will look at the diverse range of ethnicities and religions which make up Great Britain, how they can make a positive contribution to the wider community as well as learning about the law and the consequences of not following it. 

Science – We will be learning about Animals, including Humans.

Computing – Learners will develop their knowledge of ‘selection’ by revisiting how ‘conditions’ can be used in programming, and then learning how the ‘if… then… else...’ structure can be used to select different outcomes depending on whether a condition is ‘true’ or ‘false’.   We will be using Scratch over the term. 

Art- We will be exploring Henri Rousseau and his famous Tiger in a Tropical Storm.

Music – We will be ‘Dancing In The Street’ with this topic…

History – In this unit, the children will explore the question of why people go on a journey, and look at five very different types of journey in depth.

Clubs and Music lessons

Please let the teacher know if you cannot attend your clubs.

To sign up for music lessons, please see the links below:

Rocksteady – https://www.rocksteadymusicschool.com/

Other Music Lessons – https://uksouthglos.speedadmin.dk/registration#/

Email: music@wema.org.uk