Year 5

Autumn Term 2019

Year 5 marks the move for children from lower to upper Key Stage 2. The essence of this year is to provide the children with many opportunities to gain in independence and to seek out and accept greater responsibility. Our Year 5 children become hot dinner monitors and can learn to be 'good buddies' for our younger children. They will participate in peer mediation and will learn many valuable 'life skills'. During the Summer term of this academic year we will teach Sex Education for the first time. We continue to build upon the curriculum from Year 4 and to prepare the children for their final year at Bishop's Cleeve primary School in Year 6.

This term, the children will learn about what makes a good team and the art of successful leadership. During our thematic learning, the children find out more about the creation of the Solar System as well as studying how the position of the earth in the Solar System creates the phases of the moon. We shall delve into early space exploration, learning about the Space Race and then presenting our findings to the class. Later in the term, we shall visit the Leicester Space Centre to gain an insight into space exploration through interactive workshops and the prestigious planetarium. We will look into different forces, with a particular focus on gravity. The children will create their own fact files about Sir Isaac Newton. Towards the end of term, we shall make our own rockets from water bottles before launching them on the school field.

In English, many writing opportunities will be created as the children delve into their own 'Class Reader' and other relevant texts. We will use this knowledge to write a journey story and a non-chronological report on a fictitious creature of their choice. Furthermore, we will learn about Winter Haikus in poetry and cover numerous texts during reciprocal reading, as well as poetry and playscripts.

 The children will also be enjoying gymnastics, circuits (from an external coach) and a variety of invasion games (hockey and netball). Finally, the children will continue to enhance their fundamental physical skills through the REAL PE programme.

During the Autumn term, we will be studying many different aspects of maths. These will include arithmetic, place value, rapid recall of multiplication and division and formal written methods of all four functions.

LETTERS & DOCUMENTS

• Curriculum Letter - Autumn Term 1
• Meet the Teacher Presentation

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