Year5

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

Written by Edward (5P) and Felicity (5F)

This half term, we have been very busy learning about the famous continent Europe. It’s been an astonishing and very engaging 6 weeks.

Marvellous Maths

This half term and last, we have been enjoying learning about fractions, unit fractions, equivalent fractions, improper fractions, mixed fractions, adding fractions, subtracting fractions, multiplying fractions by the integer, non-unit fractions and finally fractions of amounts! Throughout this half term, we have continued to use Flashback Maths to help us with our learning too!

Extravagant English

In English, we have been looking into the story of Migrants in our sentence stacking lessons. In this story, it features a little baby polar bear called Nanuk (meaning polar bear in Inuktitut) and his mother. Their Iceland home, in the Arctic region, melts and they get washed away into the icy Arctic sea. They wash up in Germany in the black forest, meeting several nasty, human- like brown bears, resulting in a slap to Nanuk!

At the end of this unit, we continued the story of Migrants in first person wondering where they might go next. We chose to send the bears to either Austria, the Netherlands or Latvia. We could choose as many plot points (paragraphs) as we wanted although it had to be 6 or above. We also had to choose writing lenses to show in different parts of the story. e.g a simile, alliteration or repetition.

Gorgeous Geography

In Geography, we have been comparing our locality with one in France located in the Alps – La Plagne. We have been looking into the unique weather, economy and features in La Plagne caused by the mixture of rushing wind and the high mountains. 

Amazing Art

We have been experimenting with the background, middleground and the foreground using mixed media. We have been creating images of mountains by collaging. For our final piece we created, we used chalks, oil pastels, fine liners and paint to form a scene of La Plagne’s many mountains. We chose either Spring, Summer, Autumn or Winter. Can you guess which picture represents which season?

Delightful Design Technology 

Throughout this half term, we have been collecting research to make our very own spaghetti bolognese in groups of either 5 or 6. We all participated by bringing in a chosen ingredient and making a spag bol. To finish DT off, we taste-tested the meal for ourselves then reviewed it in the booklet that we had collected our information in.

Creative Computing

In this project, we have been learning about different websites online. We have discovered how to tell the difference between real facts and fake information. For our final project, we have been creating information posters too.                                                                                            

Ravishing R.E

Towards the end of this half term, we have improved our knowledge of The Easter story and Jesus. We have also learnt what Communion is to Christians. Communion is a special ceremony in which the priest blesses the bread and the wine to help Christians feel close to Jesus and remember his sacrifice. It is said in the bible stories that Jesus will return. 

Sensational Science

Throughout this half term, we have been learning about the different forces that work in our world by using Newton-metres. During these 6 weeks, we have learned about a measure called Newtons (N). We experimented with our shoes to discover how much force it takes to move them. Some shoes took less force to move because they were smaller or they had more grip than others. In the last few days, we have also been learning about how gravity pulls us towards the ground. Also, we have learnt how cogs spin and make some mechanical objects work and mesh together.

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In this half term, we have been learning about all sorts of different subjects, it has been very interesting and educational. It has helped us learn about the wonders of Europe and develop other skills too!