Year 5

Hello and welcome to the page for Year Five!

Important dates and reminders:

Monday- planners are checked.
Monday and Friday- P.E. kits are needed in school.
Wednesday- homework due in and homework sent home.
Thursday: Spellings test and new spellings sent home.

Topics we are learning about in the Spring term:

Geography: The Americas
Science: Animals and their Habitats and Life Cycles
P.S.H.E.: Health and Lifestyles: Healthy Living; Keeping Safe
History: Bishop's Stortford in Tudor Times; The Mayans
Art: Landscapes: Van Gogh; Sculpture: Kandinsky
D.T.: Moving Toys CAM systems

English topics we are learning this term:

Suspense and Mystery
Classic Adventure Fiction

Our main class stories this term:

'Goth Girl and the Ghost of a Mouse' by Chris Riddell
'Kensuke's Kingdom' by Michael Morpurgo

French: Describing clothing. February 2018

Art: Painting American landscapes in the style of Van Gogh. February 2018

Athlete Visit, Sponsored Fitness Circuit and Whole School Motivational Assembly: Daniel Lewis. 23/1/ 18

History: Walk into Bishop's Stortford to look at Tudor buildings. Monday 22nd January 2018-

Whole School R.E. Day (with focus on Buddhism): 18/1/18

Mindfulness Hip Hop and Dance- linked to 'Feeling Good'. December 2017

We explored feelings and emotions.

We explored our talents and what makes us special.

We explored different healthy ways of feeling happy- including meditation and exercise.

Maths: What does division mean? November 2017

We used a range of maths manipulatives to show what division means, using key maths terminology.

We made links to other areas of maths, such as fractions and decimals and explained these links.

English: 'The Jabberwocky' by Lewis Carroll: November 2017

We looked at the poem 'The Jabberwocky' by Lewis Carroll. We discussed the language used and the descriptions given.

To help the children understand the poem, they drew what they thought the Jabberwocky would look like. Then, in groups, used materials in the classroom to create the 'land' where they imagine the Jabberwocky would live, the setting of the poem. The children took quotes from the poem to give them clues. The children used their land designs to write powerful descriptions.

Arcimboldo Art on Seasons: 28.11.17

Arcimboldo inspired portraits representing the seasons: Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter.

If you look closely, you will notice the vegetables have been organised to create a face.

The children worked in small groups to create their portrait using vegetables. The children then drew and used water-colour paints to capture their ideas on paper.

They did a design for each season, thinking about seasonal vegetables and colours.

Tudor Presentations: Autumn Term

The half-termly homework project to produce a presentation about the Tudors was very successful with great effort from all children.

The children in Year Five have now shared their presentation with the class and received excellent feedback from their peers.

Very well done everyone for all of the effort and time which went into the presentations and thank you for all of the adult support at home which helped the children feel so confident and proud to present their work in front of the class.

Geography - 'This is what we think the world looks like' activity. Oct '17

In small groups, children tried to create a world map and label as many countries, capitals and features of a map as they could.

We then compared how maps have developed and changed over time as our understanding of the world has improved.

Year 5 Science Day: Earth and Space- Phases of the Moon: Oreo Challenge. Oct '17

"This activity was not just yummy, it was a fun way to learn."

"We worked in pairs to scrape the white part of the oreo biscuits away, leaving the right amount to represent each phase of the moon. We labelled the paper plates to show which phase our biscuit represented."

"Best lesson"

The Battle of Bosworth Field

The children told the story in freeze frames of the main scenes within the Battle of Bosworth Field. Below is one group's scenes put together to show the story.