Year5-20202022

Globe Trotting Around North America!

This half term, our learning takes a geographical turn as we begin learning about North America. It is such a diverse continent and the children will be learning about all of the differences within it. Attached below are our Knowledge Organiser and our Topic Web. The Knowledge Organiser gives you an overview into the new topic and some of the keys facts related to our Geography and Science learning. We would love the children to try and learn some of these facts off by heart. Our Topic Web gives you an insight into what we are learning about in each curriculum subject this half term. Read all about our exciting English learning (and the Highwayman came riding… riding…), our next Mathematical concepts, the awesome experiments we have coming up in Science and all of our other upcoming learning too. 

Year 5 Aut 2 – Knowledge Organiser

Year 5 Aut 2 – Topic Web

Year 5 Autumn 1 – Connections Topic Overview

What an amazing first week! The children have absolutely blown us away with their enthusiasm and hard work this week and we are so very excited to spend this academic year working with them all. 

Tomorrow, the children will be bringing home a paper copy of our Knowledge Organiser and Topic Web for this half term but we have attached a copy on the above link for you too. We are learning all about… SPACE! You can read about this half term’s learning for each subject and also practise some of the Space facts with your child using this document. Can the children already remember the order of the planets in our solar system? Why not have a competition to see whether you or your child can learn them the quickest?

We also have an exciting trip coming up – to the Winchester Science Centre! Please let your child’s class teacher know if you may be able to help on the day of the trip – Thursday 21st October. We will need a small handful of DBS cleared adults and so will select names at random should lots of adults put their name forward. 

Here’s to a fantastic half term and a brilliant year! 

Mrs Poole, Mrs Stone, Miss Fowler & Miss Pettitt

What a fantastic final project for Year 5! We have most certainly gone out with an explosion of colour and music this week. It’s really challenging to summarise all the incredible work that the children have done this half term but here is a little snippet of the work completed. 

Science was particularly exciting this half term as the children learned all about life cycles. To support this learning, each class has caterpillars in their classrooms and it was so wonderful to watch their journeys to becoming butterflies. It was such a treat to release them all too!

The children began by learning about the Windrush Ship and used a range of sources to learn about this defining moment in history before exploring how the Caribbean has heavily influenced our culture today. The children began by looking at how our music has been influenced by the Caribbean and wrote these amazing raps to represent their learning. 

The children also then spent time learning about many of our sporting heroes of past and present who have heritage linked to the Windrush generation and also learned about carnival, particularly the Notting Hill Carnival. The children designed a variety of new sporting equipment pieces with their new knowledge and also wrote some amazing newspaper reports about the celebrations. 

Within their DT lessons, the children were really inspired by some of the underwater sculptures found in the Caribbean – representing unity. They then made their own clay models which we put together in a circle to show our unity as class. 

In English, the children have wrote the most spectacular biographies about an inspirational woman from the Windrush generation – Mary Seacole. This was the children’s first non-fiction unit using ‘The Write Stuff’ approach to lessons and we were so proud of what they achieved. 

We then finished off this week with the most amazing carnival! The children paraded around the school with the beautiful flags and masks they had made to draw all their learning together. What an amazing end to Year 5! We are so proud of everything the children have achieved this year!

Culture is our new topic for this half term as we learn all about how the Caribbean culture has been embedded into British culture, whilst learning about the Geography and History of the Caribbean too! We also have some brilliant learning in Science coming up (with some new classroom residents to look after) and we can’t wait to learn about some inspirational women from History through our English. What a colourful, musical and exciting final half term in Year 5!

For more information about what we are learning, please see our Knowledge Organiser (facts about our topic) and our Topic Web (subject overviews of what we are learning) attached below. 

We hope you all had a fabulous half term and we can’t wait to see the children tomorrow, 

The Year 5 Team 

Y5 Sum 2 – KO

Y5 Sum 2 – Topic web