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How have we come to the end of Year 5 already? We have had an incredible final half term, although very busy! The children have amazed us with their progress in swimming, their behaviour at Brighton Hill for the taster day and their enthusiasm and excitement at Ufton Court too. Below is a selection of photographs from the day – we rowed a Viking longship and raided many different countries, we learned different Viking battle formations and channeled our inner warriors complete with face paint and also practised different Viking skills including wattling and spinning sheep wool, building and weaving fences and using flint to create sparks too. 

This whole academic year has gone so quickly and we are all so proud of the children’s hard work, resilience, creativity and achievements this year. They are most definitely ready to begin their final year at St. Mark’s and we wish them all of the luck in the world as they head to Year 6. 

The Year 5 Team – Mrs Poole, Mrs Stone, Miss Fowler and Miss Pettitt

How have we reached the final half term of Year 5 already? We can’t believe how quickly this year has gone so far. We are really looking forward to our final topic too – the Vikings!

Attached are our Topic Web and Knowledge Organiser for this half term. The Topic Web gives you an insight into what we are planning on covering in each subject and the Knowledge Organiser gives you lots of facts and information about our Viking topic so that you can learn about these at home too. 

We have lots of trips coming up too – Swimming, Ufton Court and Brighton Hill. Please ensure the forms are completed for these as soon as possible and keep note of these dates. It’s going to be a busy half term! 

Thank you, as always, for your on-going support, 

The Year 5 Team

Year 5 Sum 2 – Knowledge Organiser

Year 5 Sum 2 – Topic web

We had the most incredible half term in Summer 1 learning all about the Caribbean! The children fully immersed themselves in their learning about the Windrush and Caribbean culture and we were so proud of their maturity and enthusiasm in this topic.

The children started by learning about the Windrush ship and exploring some sources about the initial event before learning about Caribbean music and making some colourful mindmaps to show all the music genres that have been influenced by this. The children then learned about Carnival and wrote beautiful newspaper reports all about the Notting Hill Carnival – we couldn’t believe some the facts about this event! Then the children moved onto Sport and learned all about the different athletes that are a part of the Windrush generation before designing their own sports kits. Learning about the Windrush scandal a few years ago really shocked the children and they pretended to be MPs writing to the Prime Minister at the time (Theresa May) about their feelings surrounding this. Finally, the children brought all their learning together by reflecting upon the way the Caribbean cultures have impacted British culture today before celebrating everything in our Carnival Day. We made masks, we made flags, we made up dances and we paraded around the school with the other year groups coming out to wave and watch us. It was incredible! We also had a wonderful Jubilee day too celebrating our amazing Queen. What a half term!

Here are some pieces of work from the last few weeks. 

We are so excited to be back at school and begin the Summer term – and oh what a half term it is going to be! As one of the teachers’ favourite topics, we are going to be learning about the Caribbean. It’s going to be a musical and colourful 5 weeks, finished off with a Carnival Day on Thursday 26th May, when we will also have some virtual sessions with Reading Museum! The children are going to be learning in more detail about the Caribbean islands (we touched upon this in our North America topic in the Autumn term too) and also will be learning about the Windrush movement. This period in History lead to a change in British culture as the Caribbean influence began to merge into British music, sport, carnival and food too. 

Attached are our Topic Web and Knowledge Organiser for this half term. The Topic Web gives you an insight into what we are planning on covering in each subject and the Knowledge Organiser gives you lots of facts and information about our Caribbean topic so that you can learn about these at home too. 

After May half term, we have lots of trips coming up – Swimming, Ufton Court and Brighton Hill. Please ensure the forms are completed for these as soon as possible. 

Thank you, as always, for your on-going support, 

The Year 5 Team

Year 5 Sum 1 – Knowledge Organiser

Year 5 Sum 1 – Topic web