Year 5
Welcome Event Year 5 - Wednesday 11th Sep 24
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Year 5 Team
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The Wider Curriculum
Science: This half term our focus will turn to Earth and Space. We have a very exciting trip to Winchester Science Centre and Planetarium planned where the children will get hands on scientific experiments to enhance their learning. We will continue to work on our ‘working scientifically’ skills and be exploring the validity of different scientific theories about Space. We will learn about how day and night occurs and how the moon phases can effect our lives on Earth.
Computing: During this half term, we will continue to develop our online safety understanding and then begin learning about how we can code our own computer games. The children will learn about new subject specific language and be tasked with creating code for specific reasons.
Jigsaw: Over the half term, we will celebrating the differences that make us unique and begin to think about how these differences allow for society to be rich and diverse. We will learn how to be good citizens and be respectful different people’s thoughts and opinions.
DT: our DT topic this half term will be bird hides. The children have been tasked to create a design for a new bird hide for our forest school. We will explore different materials that will make the best shelter and then configure models to find the best design. The best models will hopefully be turned into the a fully functioning bird hide.
Music: This half term, we will be looking at singing and playing in different styles with different grooves is part of being in a band or an ensemble. We learn about music from all around the world, too. Towards Christmas we will turn our focus to our Christmas Singalong performance.
Geography : North America will be the focus of our first half term in Year 5. We will learn about the physical and human geography of the continent and use this understanding to help us know the important role these had on shape the continent as we know it today.
RE: our year begins with developing our existing knowledge of Islam. We will be learning about the importance of Allah to Muslims and how this is celebrated through worship and following of The Qur’an.
PE: the children will be continuing to develop skills they have learnt previously as we head into the remainder of the term. We will use team games such as basketball, dodgeball and netball to help understand basic game rules and allow the children to apply skills across different sports. Some children in Year 5 will also be continuing to develop their swimming skills once a week also.
English
Reading at KPS - Information for parents
Reading: This half term, we will be exploring the wonderful ‘The White Giraffe’. After tragedy hits poor Martine, she is sent to South Africa to live with a grandmother she did not know existed. Through trail and tribulations, Martine’s world becomes intwined with the mysterious white giraffe. We will continue to develop our comprehension skills and learn how to interpret new language based on context. We will be using ‘The White Giraffe’ to support our writing unit too.
Writing: over the course of the first half term, The White Giraffe will allow us to work on key writing skills such as relative clauses and using modal verbs. The children will begin by writing their own information text using the book as inspiration. We will also link our geography learning about North America to help with our independent writing.
Spellings: spellings play a vital part to our writing, and we will be focusing a focus on prefixes and homophones this half term. The children will be focusing on how we use prefixes to change the meaning of the words and the importance of effectively using their, there and they’re.
Maths
Maths: this half term, we will be focusing on our understanding of fractions. Fractions plays a heavy part in the Year 5 curriculum and our understanding will be developed to support this. We will begin with ordering and comparing fractions before we learn how to add and subtract fractions with different denominators. We will use a concrete, pictorial and abstract approach to continually support all children with our unit.
Year 5 Gallery
Year 5 Gallery
