WELCOME TO

 YEAR 5!

The classroom doors will open at 8:45 and children can begin making their way in. The school day begins at 8:50. The classroom doors will close at 8:55. Anyone arriving after this time will need to enter through the school office at main reception. The school day ends at 3:15.  

Welcome to the Summer Term!

This term in English, we will be using the books, 'Freedom Bird', and 'Old Things' to help us with our reading, writing and spelling. 📚✍🏼

In Maths, we will work on perimeter and area and statistics before moving onto shape, position and direction and negative numbers. We will finish the year with some work on converting units and then volume.  ➕➖✖➗

Our Science topics will involve first completing our properties and changes of materials unit, before moving on to exploring some work on scientists and inventors to finish the year!🥼🧪

In RE, we will learn about stories of Christianity before moving on to exploring beliefs in our community ⛪📿

In PSHE, our units are called 'One world' and 'Money Matters' where we will focus on living as global citizens. 🤝🏼

In Computing, we will be working on spreadsheets and 3D modelling👨🏼‍💻👩🏽‍💻💻

In French, we will focus on a unit based on the date. 🔢🎤

In PE, we will be working on our team work and social skills through various games and our hand eye co-ordination, batting, bowling and fielding skills with rounders. We will also be working on our gymnastics skills and swimming in our pool on the playground! 🏋🏼‍♀️🏏

In our topic lessons, we will start by completing our history topic of local history - Eastwood and Mining. We will finish by revisiting our incredible art skills and completing our art project. We will also be designing and making Mars rovers for our DT topic using gears!

You can find the homework menu and our Knowledge Organisers for Summer Term below 🙂