Year 5
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Welcome to the Year 5 page!
Year 5 Term 6
Wow, we can’t believe we are in Term 6 already! We are very much looking forward to the final term of Year 5 with you!
PE days are Monday and Wednesday
Links for assembly songs:
Dancing in the street: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1K0fzamR47o
Power in me: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5CAL3OC-Qfk
English:
Our learning this term is going to be centred around a documentary video about life on Pandora. From this, we will be writing a narrative about some scientists who crash land on the planet by mistake. Later on in the term, we will be writing a discussion and looking at the features of this text type.
Maths:
We start the term working on our decimals, using efficient methods to add and subtract decimals as well as decimal sequencing and multiplying and dividing by 10, 100 and 1000. Next, we will explore converting different units of measure and finish the term by carrying out problem solving investigations.
Foundation Subjects:
Music:
Over the next few weeks, we are going to learning some old school hip hop from Will Smith and studying “The Fresh Prince of Bel Air”! We will be playing musical games, thinking about the interrelated dimensions of music (pulse, rhythm, pitch etc.), singing and playing the glockenspiels all while channelling our inner Will Smith!
Geography:
Where does all our stuff come from? We will investigate where our clothing and food comes from and then begin to look at food miles and whether buying local produce or food grown overseas is beneficial, taking in to account the amount of food miles. We also have a visitor coming in from Farrington Farm shop to tell us all about locally produced and sourced produce and also will visit a local supermarket identify all the different countries represented by the food being sold.
RE:
In Term 6, we will continue to think about why are some journeys and places special?' is staying the same, however, our smaller focus question is changing to 'How might a person’s sense of purpose in life be strengthened by pilgrimage?'
Computing:
We are going to creative in Computing! Throughout the term we will be creating vector drawings. Looking at how to use different drawing tools to help create images recognising that images in vector drawings are created using shapes and lines, and each individual element in the drawing is called an object. We can’t wait to see the children’s creations!
Science:
We will be becoming scientists; planning and carrying out different experiments. We will be focusing on collecting and recording our results systematically and using our recording to accurately communicate our findings. As the term moves on we will focus on planning a fair test and identify variable that we can control.
DT:
We are very excited this term as we are investigating bread! We are going to be tasting different types to then design and make our very own!
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