Long term Curriculum Overview for Year 5 - click here.
Year 5 and Year 6 and invited away for four nights together. The cost of this trip is subsidised for families eligible for free school meals.
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Y5 Blog
Check out our blog to see what we have been getting up to in Year 5!
We had a wonderful time celebrating World Book Day as a school! We had the opportunity to share our favourite books, listened to storied and drew our own reading rivers- some of which you can see in the windows of 5S. We also dressed up as a range of different book chatacters. have a look!
Every Friday this Spring term we are lucky enough in year 5 to have Coach Neil come to teach us how to play the wonderful game of Cricket!
As part of their states of matter topic Year 5 have been learning how to separate mixtures and solutions.
Year 5 have enjoyed learning handball for their outdoor PE unit this term.
We were lucky enough to go on a visit to the Ure Museum inside the University of Reading as they have the largest collection of Greek pottery in England. For half of the day we were in the museum learning about: how pots were made; what different styles of pots were used for; the evolution of the designs and we even got to handle some pottery for ourselves. See the January newsletter for more information and photos of our time in the museum.
For the other half of the dyad we put what we had learnt to the test and created our own designs for Greek pots by using scratch art. Take a look at our amazing artwork!
As part of our 'Who has Power?' unit, Year 5 are looking at the Greeks and their way of life. We have been researching Greek theatre masks and the way in which they needed them to portray emotions to large crowds.
We are working to create our own theatre masks in groups, focusing on characteristics which show specific emotions. We have been learning how to roll slabs and form them to specific shapes (in our case, faces).
Take a look at how we got on!
A letter to Zeus
Throughout this term we have been building up our skills in different mediums to create a multimedia piece of art based on the solar system. the children used watercolour techniques for the backgrounds, charcoal for a moon and oil pastels to create planets of our choice, can you work out which planet is which?
In French this term we have been learning how to give directions in French and the names of different places within a town, especially the most important ones like cafes and bakeries. We used all of this information to create our own maps around town. We used these maps to ask each other where certain buildings were and gave directions to these buildings with a partner.
To hear these directions, check out the latest Seesaw post!
Learning first aid is an important life skill and one our Year 5's take very seriously.
Love letters to the Highwayman or Bess from Alfred Noyes Poem "The Highwayman"
Design and technology: planning, designing and building lunar modules