Year 5

Welcome back for our Spring Term Year 5

We hope you have all had an enjoyable Christmas break and are ready for all the fantastic learning in 2024.

Our spring topic is:

On Top Of The World

Let’s find out what our first few weeks have in store…remember to check out the topic web for more details on the curriculum covered and to have a read of our newsletter.

In Geography we will explore some of the world’s highest mountains and study their climate and biomes. We’ll also look at volcanoes and earthquakes and study the geography behind these natural events. In History we will explore the first successful ascent of the world's highest mountain Mount Everest and Shakleton's exploration of Antarctica on board The Endurance.

In English our two key texts this term, Survivors by David Long and Shackleton’s Journey by William Grill are a fantastic fit and will result in some powerful writing including black out poetry, recounts, biography and narrative writing. 

We will work scientifically to explore our Science unit Properties and Changes of Materials.

Our school values this term are Spring 1 – Collaboration & Hope, Spring 2 – Perseverance & Forgiveness. We will focus on these as part of whole school act of worship and also in class.  

In Maths, we’ll be looking at Multiplication and Division, deeper work on Fractions, Decimals and Percentages and finally Perimeter and Area.

 In RE during the first half term we will be looking at the humanist faith, considering what matters most to Christians and humanists before moving on to understand what Jesus did to save human beings.

  As part of our learning in DT, we will focus on making cranes and in Art, we will look at contemporary mountainscapes using watercolour and pen.

Our Computing topic this first half term is centred around creating games. In the second half of the term we will move on to a SCRATCH project.

For Spring 1 our indoor PE unit is gymnastics and our outdoor PE will be football. After Easter our indoor PE will be dodgeball and we will swim at Southam pool.