W/C 03/03

Maths: In math this week we have continued our new unit of decimals and percentages looking at rounding to the nearest integer, the nearest tenth and introduced students to the concept of percentage.

English: In English we have began to plan our flashback narrative based on the new vehicle text 'A story like the wind'. Students have to write in first person as a character in the book and consider what memories that character would have.

Science: We have continued our new topic of living things looking at Carl Linnaeus who is famous for his pioneering work in the science of identifying, naming and classifying nature. We also researched the binomial name for various creatures.

Art: We have continued our Art topic of printing. Using the technique of collage that we were introduced to in Year 3 we have created backgrounds that we will print our North American patriotic posters onto. Students also designed their posters and considered what printing techniques they would use.

PE: This term we will be doing Hockey and dance in PE.

W/C 24/02

Maths: In math this week we have continued our new unit of decimals and percentages looking at understanding thousandths, and comparing and ordering decimals up to both 2 decimal places and 3 decimal places.

English: This week in English we have began to immerse ourselves in our new vehicle text 'A story like the wind'. Students wrote a setting description based on the story. This half term we will be writing flashback narratives and we have read through and analysed a WAGOLL identifying the key features.

Science: This week we have continued our new topic of living things looking at Carl Linnaeus who is famous for his pioneering work in the science of identifying, naming and classifying nature. We also researched the binomial name for various creatures.

Art: This week we have started out Art topic of printing. We completed artist studies on various artist (Banksy, Kate Deciccio, Luba Lukova) who have used printing within their art and also created works of art that show their feelings about an issue, to help their community or to express patriotism.​ We also practised our monotype printing skills as well as screen printing. 

PE: This term we will be doing Hockey and dance in PE.

W/C 10/02 

Maths: In math this week we have completed our topic of fractions and completed the end of block test for this unit. We have also began our new unit of decimals and percentages looking at tenths, hundredths and thousandths as a fraction.

English: This week in English we have completed our write for pleasure unit of work. Students wrote a biography on their chosen significant individual reflecting on their life and achievements.

Science: This week we have continued our new topic of living things looking at how different animals have different gestational periods. We looked to see if we could identify any trends between the size of the animal and the gestational period and also the size of the animal and the amount of offspring it carries at one time.

RE: This terms key question is 'What is the significance of karma and Moksha for a Hindu?' This week we looked at Mahatma Gandhi and created posters using key phrases and information about his life.

DT: This week we have continued our DT topic where students will create a rotating fairground ride. We we have decorated the main part of our ride and will be connecting it all together at the beginning of the next half term.

PE: This term we will be doing basketball and dance in PE.

W/C 03/02

Maths: In math this week we have started our new topic of fractions and looked at multiplying a unit and non-unit fraction by an integer, multiplying a mixed number by an integer, calculating a fraction of a quantity and problem solving with fractions.

English: This week in English we have started our write for pleasure unit of work. Students have analysed a biography and identified the key features used. They then chose their own significant individual to write a biography on and researched their life and achievements.

Science: This week we have continued our new topic of living things looking at how different animals have different gestational periods. We looked to see if we could identify any trends between the size of the animal and the gestational period and also the size of the animal and the amount of offspring it carries at one time.

RE: This terms key question is 'What is the significance of karma and Moksha for a Hindu?' This week we looked at Mahatma Gandhi and created posters using key phrases and information about his life.

DT: This week we have continued our DT topic where students will create a rotating fairground ride. We we have created the base of our fairground ride and also attached the circuit to create the rotational feature.

PE: This term we will be doing basketball and dance in PE.

W/C 27/01

Maths: In math this week we have completed our new topic multiplication and division. We have looked at short division, dividing a 4-digit number by a 1-digit number, dividing with remainders, efficient division and solving problems with multiplication and division. We also completed the end of block assessment for this topic.

English: This week in English we have been completed our biographies on Henry 'box' Brown. We have identified the key features of a biography and using our research tried to effectively apply these to our written work. 

Science: This week we have continued our new topic of living things looking at how different animals have different life cycles. We then created life cycle diagrams of each animal adding as much detail as possible for each stage.  We then discussed the differences between the life cycles of each type on animal? Do they have the same number of stages? Which do you think are the most important stages?  

RE: This terms key question is 'What is the significance of karma and Moksha for a Hindu?' This week we looked at the story of Gajendra Moksha Stotra. The crocodile in the story is like the struggles of life that keep pulling us down. Gajendra’s fight shows how hard it is to escape life’s challenges by ourselves. When Gajendra prayed to Vishnu, he showed faith and devotion. The story teaches us that while hard work is important, letting go of pride and trusting a higher power can help us reach peace and freedom, just like Gajendra found moksha (liberation). Students then thought about struggles they have had to overcome in their life and who helped them to do this. We represented this by drawing crocodiles and discussing our struggle underneath.

DT: This week we have started our DT topic where students will create a rotating fairground ride. We looked at a range of existing fairground rides and investigated how they move. We investigated ways of using electrical motors to create rotating parts and created prototype models to investigate stable frameworks. We then spent time designing our fairground ride with a rotating part.

PE: This term we will be doing basketball and dance in PE.

W/C 20/01

Maths: In math this week we have continued our new topic multiplication and division. We have looked at multiplying a 3-digit number by a 2-digit number, multiplying a 4-digit number by a 2-digit number and solving problems with multiplication.

English: This week in English we have been analysing an example of a biography. We have identified the key features and how they have effectively been applied. We Then began planning our own biography on Henry 'box' Brown based on what we have learnt from our vehicle text and our own research.

Science: This week we have continued our new topic of living things looking at how asexual plants reproduce we then planted cuttings from a spider plant to observe over the next few weeks.

RE: This terms key question is 'What is the significance of karma and Moksha for a Hindu?' This week we looked at the concept of samsara, the Hindu cycle of birth death and rebirth. We then created poems about reincarnation.

History: This week we finished our  history topic discovering America. We  looked at how America as a newly established super power influenced the world in the 20th century. We also created posters based on Native American tribes.

PE: This term we will be doing basketball and dance in PE.

W/C 13/01

Maths: In math this week we have started our new topic multiplication and division. We started our topic refreshing our knowledge of multiplying numbers by 1 digit. We the spent the rest of the week looking at how to multiply a 2 digit number by a 2 digit number.

English: This week in English we have been immersing ourselves in our new vehicle text 'Henry's freedom box' by Ellen Levine. We began by making predictions about the text based on the clues students were given. We then read some background information and wrote Diary entries on Henry's journey. We finished off our week reading through the text and then focusing on specific illustrations from the text and interpreting how we felt the main character felt at these moments.

Science: This week we have started our new topic of living things and have labelled a flowering plant and discussed its life cycle.

RE: This terms key question is 'What is the significance of karma and Moksha for a Hindu?' This week we looked at the concept and karma and also looked into samsara, the Hindu cycle of birth death and rebirth. We then created reincarnation life cycle mandalas.

History: This week we have started our new history topic discovering America. We have looked at where the Native American settlements were and then researched some Native American tribes. We then looked at Christopher Columbus and the impact that his journey to America had on the native American tribes. We also discussed the Boston Tea Party and impact it had on the America Revolution.

PE: This term we will be doing basketball and dance in PE.

W/C 06/01

This week in class we have immersed ourselves in our new topic 'Discovering America' with a focus on Geography and music.

Geography: Students have looked at the the different countries within North America and the natural features within the United States of America. We have looked at how the Rocky Mountains were formed and how different areas of the Rocky Mountains differ from each other. We also looked at the Grand Canyon and how it was formed by the erosion caused by the Mississippi river. We then looked at how the climate has effected different states within the USA. We also looked at the causes and impact of the droughts in California and the flooding of the Mississippi river.

Music: We began our music topic by evaluating the British and American national anthem, we first analysed the lyrics and then wrote a description of the anthems. We then learnt 7 notes on the recorder and in groups composed our own pieces of music using these notes. Once we were confident with these notes students then learnt the British national anthem 'God save the King' and performed it in front of the class.

Below you will find the termly curriculum bulletins. These documents give you all the information about what your child will be learning at school for each term. 

W/C 16/12

We kicked off our Christmas week with students visiting various different members of staff who were representing the different members of the Christmas story. Students learnt more about the significance of Mary, Joseph, the Angel Gabriel, the Shephard, the Donkey and the inn keeper. They took part in activities with each person and then reflected on which character they feel most connected too. 

  We attended our annual church service with Rev Dave Atallah. We also wrote winter themed poems and unlocked who the missing elf was using various maths skills.  Students took part in a treasure hunt on the playground de coding the message based off various pictures and finished with an amazing Christmas dinner and Party.

  There will be no homework for Students until we return to school on January 7th.

W/C 09/12

RE: Our key question this term is 'Was Jesus the Messiah?' This week we revisited this question and wrote a balanced argument discussing if Jesus should be considered the Messiah and the evidence that supports our argument.

English: In English this week we have published our explanation texts to combine into a book that we will display in the school library. Students wrote about their own chosen subject that they felt they were an expert on and many subjects were covered such as art, literature, football teams and taking care of various animals.

Maths: This week we have continued our new topic of fractions we spent time working on subtracting from a mixed number and subtracting from a mixed number - breaking the whole. We have also completed our end of black assessment on fractions as well as our end of term arithmetic and reasoning paper.

Science: In Science this week we have looked at how living things have changed over time.  We have conducted an experiment into how the Galapagos finches beaks have adapted to their surroundings, we have looked at how different beak types are more or less successful in collecting different food sources. 

Computing: This week we evaluated our computing unit, the children had to think about the sequencing of their programming any amendments they had to make to debug any mistakes that they make. They shared their games with the other students in the class and received peer feedback on what they felt had gone well and how they could improve their game even further. 

PE - This term we will be taking part in Netball and Gymnastics for PE.

W/C 02/12

RE: Our key question this term is 'Was Jesus the Messiah?' This week we thought about what kind of Messiah we would need in the 21st century. We discussed whether we though God would send a man or a woman to earth today as a messenger? Why? If we believe there’s no God, where do we think humans can get messages for a better world from? We also thought about our own hopes for the future, what makes us confident? What makes us fearful?

English: In English this week we have completed our write for pleasure unit where students have written an explanation text on their chosen subject. We have edited our work effectively ensuring we have included all the key grammatical features needed and organised our information making sure we include sub headings.

Maths: This week we have continued our new topic of fractions we spent time working on adding and subtracting fractions. We have done this with fractions that have the same denominator and also looked and mixed number and improper fractions that have different denominators.

Science: In Science this week we have looked at how living things have changed over time.  We have conducted an experiment into how the Galapagos finches beaks have adapted to their surroundings, we have looked at how different beak types are more or less successful in collecting different food sources. 

Computing: This week in computing we have looked at what a variable is and how they can be used to create different programs with a variety of uses. We began by using the micro:bits to program a dice and eventually ended with programming our own game. Throughout the unit, the children had to think about the sequencing of their programming and debug any mistakes that they make. They needed to make informed and sensible choices with the variables within their games in order to make them work effectively. 

PE - This term we will be taking part in Netball and Gymnastics for PE.

W/C 25/11

RE: Our key question this term is 'Was Jesus the Messiah?' This week we thought about what words we related to Christmas and then discussed which of these had a religious reference. We watched some adverts that were aimed at reminding people of the religious meaning of Christmas and how they approached this. Students then had the option of two activities to either create a poster to remind people of the religious meaning behind Christmas or to write a script two families may have at Christmas time - a religious family and a non religious family.

English: In English this week we have began our write for pleasure unit where students will write an explanation text on their chosen subject. Students considered what they believe they are an expert in and how they could explain this topic to another person. We also looked at what questions we could pose about the chosen subject that our explanation text could answer. Finally, we spent some time researching our chosen topic and planning out what subheadings our explanation text would need to include.

Maths: This week we have continued our new topic of fractions we spent time looking at converting mixed numbers to improper fractions, comparing fractions less than 1, ordering fractions less than 1 and comparing and order fractions greater than 1.

Science: In Science this week we have looked at how living things have changed over time.  We have conducted an experiment into whether the terrain we live in effects the flexibility of our feet. We then compared our data to national data that has been collected to see if we could draw a conclusion.

Art: This week in art students have successfully completed their 3D contour maps. We have self evaluated our own work and then conducted a gallery where students could go round and see each others work. Students were then given the opportunity to leave peer feedback on each others work specifying what they liked about the piece and what they thought the artist could have done to make it even better.

PE - This term we will be taking part in Netball and Gymnastics for PE.

W/C 18/11

RE: Our key question this term is 'Was Jesus the Messiah?' This week we looked at references within the Bible about Jesus. We then thought about whether the prophecies about the messiah has been met in Jesus. We annotated our bibles highlighting the information that supports the theory that Jesus was the messiah and also looked at which prophecies were not fulfilled by Jesus.

English: In English this week we have completed the explanation texts on our chosen animals. Students explained what adaptation was and then described the various physical and behavioural adaptations that their chosen animal has gone through in order to thrive in its environment.

Maths: This week we have started our new topic of fractions we spent time looking at equivalent fractions for unit fractions non unit fractions and also converting improper fractions into mixed numbers.

Science: In Science this week we have looked at how living things have changed over time.  We have conducted an experiment into whether the terrain we live in effects the flexibility of our feet.

Art: This week in art students have successfully completed cutting the topographical layers of their contour maps. We have painted our base layers and will continue to paint our layers in different tints and shades and glue them together next week.

PE - This term we will be taking part in Netball and Gymnastics for PE.

W/C 11/11

RE: Our key question this term is 'Was Jesus the Messiah?' This week we looked at references within the Bible about the Messiah. We then thought about what kind of person the Messiah would have to be. Then we created wanted posters for the Messiah based on the evidence we read about and traits we felt he would need to have.

English: In English this week we have analysed a WAGOLL for our explanation text. We have looked at what key grammatical features the author has used and how we can apply these in our writing. We then began to research various different animals that have adapted to thrive in their environments and began the process of planning our own explanation texts on our chosen animal.

Maths: This week we have have completed our topic of multiplication and division. have been working on factor pairs and common factors. We have also looked at squared numbers cubed number, multiplying and dividing by 10,100 and 1000.

Science: In Science this week we have looked at how living things have changed over time.  We also looked at how fossils provide evidence about living things that lived millions of years ago. 

Art: This week we began our new art topic. We have completed artist studies on Paula Scher and Chris Kenny both of whom used maps in different ways within their art. We then practised drawing contour maps and after experimenting with shades and tints began painting our contour maps using these to represent the different layers.

PE - This term we will be taking part in Netball and Gymnastics for PE.

W/C 04/11

Re through Art day: This Monday students spent the day immersing themselves in activities around the story of creation. This started with a special assembly and was the followed by a Godly Play session in the classrooms. Each year was then assigned a day of creation to create a class collage that represents that day. Year 5 were given Day 6. 

Genesis 1:24-26

²⁴ God said, “I command the earth to give life to all kinds of tame animals, wild animals, and reptiles.” And that's what happened. ²⁵ God made every one of them. Then he looked at what he had done, and it was good.

²⁶  God said, “Now we will make humans, and they will be like us. We will let them rule the fish, the birds, and all other living creatures.”

We spent some time creating different textured paper before every student was given an item to create which was added to our collage.

English: In English this week we have immersed ourselves in our new key text 'Charles Darwin On the Origin of Species. Students made predictions based on various images and finally we enjoyed the entire text together and focused on some of the key vocabulary used.

Maths: This week we have begun our new topic multiplication and division. have been working on factor pairs and common factors.

Geography: This week we completed our Geography topic looking at the Human Geography of Europe, various landmarks, the mountainous regions and finally the Mediterranean Sea.

PE - This term we will be taking part in Netball and Gymnastics for PE.

W/C 21/10

English: In English this week year 5 have have completed their memoirs taking care to ensure they spoke in the first person, used parenthesis, fronted adverbials, relative clauses and imagery to enhance their writing.

Maths: This week we have begun our new topic multiplication and division. We have looked at multiples and common multiples across various times tables.

RE - In RE our big question this half term is Creation and science: conflicting or complementary? As a class we discussed what we have learnt so far this term and summarised our understanding in a written extract or created a creative response.

PE - This term we will be taking part in football and tag rugby for PE.

W/C - 14/10

English: In English this week year 5 have dabbled ideas for their memoir. We have discussed various memories that are associated with different feelings and also important people in our lives. One memory was then chosen to write their memoir about. With this in mind we planned out the sequence of their memory the feelings associated with it.  We have also worked on the setting description for their memory.

Maths: This week we have completed our current block of teaching 'Addition and Subtraction'. We have covered  subtracting whole numbers with more than four digits, rounding to check answers, inverse operations (addition and subtraction) and multi-step addition and subtraction problems. We have also completed our end of block assessment for this topic.

RE - In RE our big question this half term is Creation and science: conflicting or complementary? As a class we discussed the various different beliefs some Christian's may have regarding cosmology and evolution. On a line we plotted these according to whether all Christians would believe the various statements or no Christians would believe it.

PE - This term we will be taking part in football and tag rugby for PE

W/C 07/10

English: In English this week year 5 have published their diary entries from the perspective of Rose Blanche. We have discussed our next extended write which will consist of writing a memoir. In preparation of this we have analysed a WAGOLL of a memoir and identified key grammatical features.

Maths: This week we have begun our next block of teaching which will be 'Addition and Subtraction'. We have looked at mental strategies that can help us with addition and subtraction and also looked at applying these skills within addition of numbers larger than four digits.

DT: In Dt this week we looked at vegetable turnovers and looked at how many pastries during WW2 would not contain meet due to the rationing but the 'Dig For Victory' propaganda posters that were circulated at the time would have led many civilians to grow their own vegetables. We looked at different seasonal vegetables and the positives and negatives of this would be. We then analysed some existing vegetarian products. Students then practiced cutting skills before finally creating their own turnover (as I'm sure many of you had the pleasure of tasting Thursday afternoon). Finally we analysed our own product based on its appearance, smell, texture and finally taste.

RE - In RE our big question this half term is Creation and science: conflicting or complementary? As a class we have listened to an interview with a NASA scientist who discusses how science has complimented her faith. We came up with questions we would like to ask the Scientist about how believing in cosmology effects her belief of Genesis and also discussed various other scientific professions that may conflict with our beliefs.

PE - This term we will be taking part in football and tag rugby for PE.

W/C 30/09/2024

This week:

English: This week in English we have completed our extended writes. Students wrote a diary entry form the perspective of Rose Blanche the main character in our vehicle text. We then spent soem time working through it and editing it effectively.

Maths: This week we have completed our topic of place value and looked at number lines to 1,000,000, compared and order numbers to 100,000 and to 1,000,000, rounded to the nearest 10, 100 or 1,000, 100,000 and 1,000,000. Students also completed an end of block assessment.

Music: In music we have continued to immerse ourselves in the songs of WW1 and WW2 and this week as a class we have sung and 'the white cliffs of Dover' and came up with actions to perform alongside it. We have also looked at the songs from WW1 and WW2 and compared the similarities and differences between the two.

RE - In RE our big question this half term is Creation and science: conflicting or complementary? As a class we will be having lots of in depth discussion surrounding this question. We have looked at the theory of cosmology and evolution and discussed how this fits into Cristian beliefs.

PE - This term we will be taking part in football and tag rugby for PE.

W/C 23/10

This week:

This week year 5's attended their residential at Hooke Court. Activities included; an evacuee workshop, a VE Day party, VE Day party games, compared WW1 and WW2 battle experiences, experienced the Trenches and had a Campfire in the Trenches before heading back on Wednesday. Please keep an eye out for photos that we will be uploading to our class page over the coming week.

English: This week in English we have completed our plans for a diary entry from the perspective of Rose Blanche. We have used imagery to convey how Rose Blanche would feel and also to describe the scene and the children she saw when she came across the concentration camp.

Maths: We have continued our topic of Place value and this week looked at partitioning numbers up to 1,000,000.

Music: In music we have continued to immerse ourselves in the songs of WW1 and this week as a class we have sung and come up with actions for 'pack up your troubles in your old kit bag'.

W/C 23/09

English - This week in English we have analysed our WAGOLL of a diary entry from the perspective of Rose Blanche. We have looked at what key grammatical features were used and analysed the key vocabulary putting it into context within our own writing. We have also chosen a scene from the book and written a first person account of how we would feel in that scenario.

Maths - This week in maths we have looked at numbers to 100,000, 1,000,000, read and wrote numbers to 1,000,000, looked at powers of 10 and finally 10/100/1,000/10,000/100,000 more or less.

Science - In Science this week we have continued to look at drag force and conducted an experiment to see what the effect of air resistant would have on the students in a race. To do this we have created parachutes and timed ourselves running with and without the parachute.

History - We have completed our history topic this term looking at how the war effected life on the home front, and finishing our topic by looking at what the impact of the war was.

Music - We have begun our new topic music looking at how song was used to boost morale during WWI. We listened to a number of songs analysing them and also learnt to sing one of these songs and performed actions to them.

RE - In RE our big question this half term is Creation and science: conflicting or complementary? As a class we will be having lots of in depth discussion surrounding this question. We have journaled on the creation story and summarise what we feel the story is about.

PE - This term we will be taking part in football and tag rugby for PE.

W/C - 09/09

English - This week in English we have been immersing ourselves in our new vehicle text. Students made a prediction based on some clues and an image from the text. We have arranged images in the order we felt they may appear in the books and also written a setting description based on images we have seen.

Maths - This week in maths we spent some time getting accustomed to the new maths platform magma maths. We have also started our new topic place value where we have looked at Roman numerals and place value up to 1000.

Science - In Science this week we have been looking at drag force and reinforced our understanding of the terms: air resistance, water resistance and friction. We then conducted an experiment to see if the friction would remain the same on different surface areas. Using a Newton metre we measured the force required to move an object across three different surfaces.

History - In History we have looked at different events that occurred throughout WWII and made an informed decision as to which event was the most significant turning point. We also attended our school trip at Blenheim Palace where we saw the Churchill exhibition and also took part in a secret service workshop solving clues at 7 different stations that were focused on seven different stages of WWII.

RE - In RE our big question this half term is Creation and science: conflicting or complementary? As a class we will be having lots of in depth discussion surrounding this question. 

PE - This term we will be taking part in football and tag rugby for PE.

W/C - 02/09

This week year 5 have focussed on History to immerse ourselves in the our new topic 'World At War'. Thank you so much to those children that dressed up as this added to the excitement of the activities. 

History: Over the last two days we have discussed why WWII was referred to as a global conflict and looked at the countries involved and whether they were in alliance with the Allied powers or the Axis powers. We have also looked at the causes for the second world war and how a lot of these could be see to be consequences of the first world war. We discussed the Blitz attack and what we would need to do in the event of an air raid. An air raid siren was played and students ensured they collected their gas marks and made their way the the Anderson shelter.

Science: This week in science we began our new topic of forces. We discussed the different types of forces there are and then looked at how unsupported objects fall towards the Earth because of the force of gravity acting between the Earth and the falling object. ​We tested the theories of Aristotle and Galileo and also looked at the impact of air resistance on the surface area of an object.