Year5-20202022

What a super busy, but super brilliant, half term! We have been so proud of how the children have immersed themselves in their learning about Identities and Europe. 

English

This has been Year 5’s first half term teaching English using ‘The Write Stuff’ and the children have done such a fantastic job with their experience days, sentence stacking lessons and their independent write. The first unit we completed was about a video clip called ‘The Present’ and the children then wrote their own stories about a child with a disability, being gifted a pet as a companion. There are some beautiful examples of writing below. The children are now planning their next independent write based on the picture book, Zoo, by Anthony Browne. We are looking forward to reading their writing from this too!

Maths

The children have been super busy over the last few weeks working with shape! From classifying angles, measuring and drawing angles and finding missing angles (on a straight line and a full circle), the children have secured some amazing new learning. We’ve also been really proud of the way the children have learned about different triangles types and quadrilateral types too. How many can they still remember at home?

Design Technology

Firstly, we want to thank you for your support at home with cooking this term! We were so impressed with the children’s home learning as they have researched and cooked a range of European dishes. There was such a range of starters, main courses and desserts created and the children have loved sharing this learning at school. Combining all of this together, the children then created gorgeous menus for their class’ dishes! 

					How amazing is this learning?

Art

As our concept has been identity for this half term, the children have not only researched how cuisine has contributed to the identity of different European countries, but also how building silhouettes and cityscape skylines can represent a country’s identity too. The children practised and rehearsed their art skills before creating some stunning European cityscapes, using both watercolour and block painting. Can you recognise any particular buildings or cities from Europe?

Following on with the theme of silhouettes and identities, the children then drew their own side profiles and considered what made them unique. Most children are still working on these in class but here are a few finished pieces to celebrate! 

Science

We have done lots of fabulous hands on Science this half term to explore flowers. The children have dissected plants and studied them using microscopes and also applied this to their knowledge of fertilisation and pollination. Then, using bubbles and helicopters, the children have also learned about different types of seed dispersal!

It has been a wonderful half term and we, as always, are super proud of the progress the children are making! There won’t be any homework over the half term week – hopefully the children can enjoy a little more freedom as restrictions have been slightly lifted. We look forward to another jam-packed half term of learning – the last half term of Year 5! We will be going out with a bang (and maybe even a mini carnival) as we learn about the Caribbean. 

The Year 5 Team 

Art Lessons

Starting from this week, the Year 5 art lessons are going to involve using lots of paint and different painting skills – including paint splattering! We have very few aprons in school and due to COVID restrictions and the need to quarantine them, we cannot guarantee that we can always use the ones which we do have. 

By Friday, please can every child in Year 5 bring a named apron into school to leave in the classroom? It could be:

• an oversized adult shirt, no longer needed
• an oversized adult t-shirt, no longer needed
• an actual painting apron 

We are looking forward to having some fun and making some mess in Art, but also need to make sure the children’s uniforms are protected. 

Many thanks in advance, 

The Year 5 Team 

What a fantastic first week back to school after the Easter break! The children have come back to school really rested, refreshed and ready to learn. We can’t quite believe that we have already reached the Summer term! 

The driver for this half term’s learning is Geography, focusing specifically on Europe. The children will be exploring the concept of ‘Identity’ through their learning, considering what determines the identity of different European countries and cultures, before considering what determines their own identities too. This will be a wonderful opportunity to champion each child’s individuality and uniqueness.

The overviews for each subject can be seen below on our Topic Web and some key facts can be seen on our Knowledge Organiser. It would be fantastic if the children could try and memorise some of these facts at home too.

Y5 Sum 1 – KO

Y5 Sum 1 – Topic web

In regard to homework, we will be reintroducing this again, this half term. The children’s homework will be a mixture of Maths, SPAG and Design Technology! We will be asking the children to have a go at some cooking at home – keep an eye out for more information to follow. We would still like the children to be practising their spellings everyday at home (these are still being posted through Google Classroom) and be reading every night too. 

Finally, we want to say a huge well done to all the children in the year group for their outstanding English work this week! They have amazed us with the quality of their writing in our recent ‘Sentence Stacking’ lessons. We are really proud of them! 

The Year 5 Team.

THANK YOU!

Firstly, we would like to say a huge thank you to the amazing children of Year 5 for their hard work this term. We really have worked them so hard in all subjects, playing catch up from missed Year 4 learning, teaching the Year 5 curriculum and all whilst adapting to all the new schools rules too. We are really proud of their maturity and how much they have grown and developed since September. Go Team Year 5! The children definitely deserve a rest over the Christmas break. 

ENGLISH 

As mentioned in our last website post, the children have been writing stories from new perspectives, based on the story ‘Midnight Fox’ by Betsy Byar. The children have finished publishing these creations this week and they are sensational! Have a look at some example pages below.

ART

As the children have completed their study of North America, they have also finished their maps drawn of the USA, with line drawing use to depict some of the differences across the country. They have spent many afternoons producing these to such a high, detailed quality. Well done children!

MERRY CHRISTMAS

All that leaves us to say is… Happy Christmas! Have an amazing few weeks and we look forward to seeing you all, bright-eyed and bushy tailed, in 2021!

Mrs Poole, Mrs Stone, Miss Thomas & Miss Fowler.

Overview

What a busy few weeks we have had in Year 5. The children have immersed themselves in our topic – Globe Trotting Around North America – and have been learning about all the differences that can be found across the continent including the biomes that can be found there, the land use and the different ways that different tribes have lived depending on their origin.

Big News! We have our class ‘State-Off’ coming up next week so would love the children to practise naming as many of the 50 states from the USA as they can. Which class will be victorious? We will find out soon! 

English 

‘The Midnight Fox’ by Betsy Byars is a traditional tale set in North America and we have been focusing our English all around this book. The children are currently rewriting the story from the fox’s perspective but last week, they wrote the most exceptional letters!

In the story, Uncle Fred goes fox hunting and when the children were faced with a recent newspaper report about fox hunting, they become so passionate about the topic! The children learned that Jeremy Hunt MP wanted to have a free vote on whether the ban on fox hunting should remain or be lifted and they wrote persuasive letters to him to encourage him to either leave the ban in place, or allow a free vote on the issue, depending on their own personal opinion. Please see some outstanding examples below.

Design Technology

As mentioned above, the children have been learning about the different tribes that live, and have lived, across North America. They have learned about how, depending on their origin, these people lived in homes ranging from teepees to igloos, lived on everything from deer to seals and wore a range of clothing and colours. From this research, the children have begun designing and completing their own weaves. Here are a few examples from last week.

We are excited to share the children’s other pieces of artwork with you at the end of term and hopefully some of their stories too. Look out for our final website update for 2020! We are so proud, as always, of how hard the children are working and particularly with how hard they have worked in their assessments over the last few days. Their results will be shared with you soon when you receive their end of term reports. 

Many thanks, 

The Year 5 Team