Our class webpage will include updates on our class topics and activities for each term.
Autumn (half term) 2021
A warm welcome to all children in year 5. We are excited to start learning about our first topic 'Alchemy Island'. Miss Thompson & Diane
Homework on Hwb from Thursday to be completed by the following Tuesday .
Reading files: Boys - Monday & Wednesday. Girls - Tuesday & Thursday.
Games on Tuesday & Friday - wear official school gym kit to school on the day.
Literacy:
Alchemy Island LLC - Fantasy narratives; Non-chronological reports; Soliloquies; Poetry; Lyrics
Suggested reading: Wizard of Earthsea – Ursula Le Guin; The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe – C.S. Lewis
Science investigations: Alchemy Island
Can you clean dirty water? Do all solids dissolve? Will it erupt? Which materials conduct heat?
Expressive Arts
Composing; Recording and editing software; Music; Graphic scores
Religious Education
Topic 1 'Ourselves' - Prior learning: The family of God in Scripture. Learning outcomes: Know and understand: A deepening awareness of ‘Who I am’ – Explore Ourselves as made in the image and likeness of God – Reveal Acquire the skills of assimilation, celebration and application of the above.
Topic 2 'life choices' - Prior learning: Confirmation: a call to witness. Learning outcomes: Know and understand: Showing care and commitment – Explore The call to life and love within the community; marriage – Reveal Acquire the skills of assimilation, celebration and application of the above.
Our portals into Alchemy Island.
Non Chronological reports on gold.
Exploring samples from Alchemy Island
We created avatars and used welsh to describe ourselves.
We created adobe spark videos and described a kingdom in Alchemy Island.
Creating and describing our fantasy landscapes.
We had fun separating mixtures from gem well! No
We made jingles to persuade the gate keeper to let us into Dragon Vine towers!
We had fun debugging the scratch code.
Friday 15th October 2021 - Dydd shwmae hapus!
World Religion Week - Judaism
Seder plate
We learnt a Jewish song about peace and performed them.
Shema Prayer and Mezuzah
We made a Mezuzah
CHRISTMAS TERM 2021
STARGAZERS
Literacy
Stargazers LLC - Mnemonics; Myths and legends; Free verse poetry; Newspaper reports; Descriptions
Class Novel: Cosmic by Frank Cottrell-Boyce
Humanities and Science
Humanities - Significant individuals – Galileo Galilei, Isaac Newton; 1960s space race
Science - Earth and space; Forces; Working scientifically and How does the Moon move?
Religious Education
Topic 3 - Hope
Prior learning: Advent and Christmas: The Church’s seasons of preparing to receive God’s gift of love and friendship in Jesus.This Topic: learning outcomes: Know and understand: Waiting hopefully – Explore Advent is the Church’s season of waiting in joyful hope for the coming of Jesus, the promised One, at Christmas and at the end of time – Reveal
Advent
Children in Need Day 2021
Christmas 2021
Spring Term 2022
Time Traveller (Topic 1)
Literacy Topics - Character studies; Adventure narratives; Leaflets; Free verse poetry; Quotations and poems
Class Novel - Tom's Midnight Garden – Philippa Pearce; Gangsta Granny - David Walliams
Science and Technology - Digital portraits; Data logging; Research - Selecting materials - Animals, including humans; Living things and their habitats; Working scientifically.
Science investigation: Do we slow down as we get older?
We enjoyed making timelines of our lives since birth!
Expressive Arts - Photography; Great artists – Andy Warhol, Salvador Dali; Collage
Humanities - Local community - Changes over the last century
Health and well being - Physical activity - Puberty; Meeting and talking with people; Reflecting on spiritual, moral, social and cultural issues; Setting targets; Feeling positive
Religious Education
Topic 4 - Mission - Prior learning: knowledge and understanding of the life of the local Christian community - Know and understand: The mission of inspirational leaders – Explore - Dioceses continue the work and mission of Jesus including ecumenism – Reveal Acquire the skills of assimilation, celebration and application of the above – Respond
Topic 5 - Memorial Sacrifice -Prior learning: the Eucharist challenges and enables living and growing in communion - Know and understand - How memories are kept alive – Explore - The Eucharist keeps the memory of Jesus’ sacrifice alive and present in a special way – Reveal - Acquire the skills of assimilation celebration and application of the above – Respond
Topic 6 - Sacrifice - Prior learning: celebrating growth to new life - Know and understand: Giving or refusing to give; appreciating the cost of giving – Explore - Lent, a time of giving in preparation for the celebration of the sacrifice of Jesus – Reveal - Acquire the skills of assimilation, celebration and application of the above – Respond
Dydd Santes Dwynwen Hapus
Year 5 travelled back in time to the 1960’s
Dance performances!
We enjoyed designing outfits for the 1960's
Andy Warhol inspired art!
Welsh Week - Mumbles Railway
Spring Term 2
Sow, Grow and Farm (Topic 2)
Literacy - Non-chronological reports; Diaries; Leaflets; Balanced arguments
Class novel - The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
Humanities - Land use in the UK; Allotments; Farming in the UK; Maps; Grid references; Climate zones; Physical features of North and South America; Farming in North and South America; Food transportation - Dig for Victory
Science and Technology - Seasonality - Food chains and webs; Life cycles; Plant reproduction; Growing plants; Modern farming
Dissecting daffodils with Diane!
We enjoyed planting flowers and vegetables!
Arts Heritage Pilot Project
Science Investigations - Why do birds lay eggs? How do worms reproduce? How many potatoes can you grow? Do dock leaves cure a sting?
Summer Term 1
Groundbreaking Greeks
Literacy - Greek myths; Balanced arguments; Playscripts; Odes
Class novel - Who Let the Gods Out? – Maz Evans
Humanities - Interpreting geographical sources
Ancient Greek periods – Minoan civilisation, Mycenaean civilisation, Dark Age, Archaic period, Classical period, Hellenistic period; Chronology and timelines; Primary and secondary sources; City states; Democracy; Role of men and women; Social hierarchy; Great Athenians; the Acropolis; Greek art, culture, architecture, philosophy, medicine and mathematics; Olympic Games; Alexander the Great; End of the Greek Empire; Legacy
Science investigations - Why did lcarus fall from the sky? Can we track the Sun?
We enjoyed a lovely canal walk with Mr Donavan
Fish is the dish!
Jubilee afternoon tea!
Religious Education
Topic 7 - Transformation - Prior learning: the new life of the Easter message is spread through the power of the Holy Spirit - Know and understand: Transforming energy – Explore Pentecost, the celebration of the Spirit’s transforming power – Reveal Acquire the skills of assimilation, celebration and application of the above – Respond
Topic 8 - Freedom and Responsibility - Prior learning: the importance of admitting wrong and being reconciled with God and each other - Know and understand: Freedom involves responsibility – Explore God’s rules for living freely and responsibly – the Commandments – Reveal Acquire the skills of assimilation, celebration and application of the above – Respond
Topic 9 - Stewardship - Prior learning: different saints show people what God is like - know and understand - caring for the earth - explore - The Church is called to stewardship for creation - Reveal Acquire the skills of assimilation, celebration and application of above - Respond
Summer term 2
Dynamic Dynasties
Literacy - Narrative poems; Biographies; Stories from another culture
Class novel - Bronze and Sunflower – Cao Wenxuan
Humanities - Ancient China; Timelines and chronology; Shang Dynasty; Sources and artefacts; Oracle bones and religious beliefs; Bronze Age in ancient China; Historical enquiry; Significance of jade and silk; Power and social hierarchy; Everyday life; Warfare; Significant individual – Di Xin; End of the Shang Dynasty; Bronze Ages around the world; Life after the Shang Dynasty; Legacy
Credits:
Created with images by Comfreak - "solar system sun mercury" • Didgeman - "advent advent wreath advent season" • Viki_B - "baby smile portrait" • naassomz1 - "people students university" • silviarita - "woman old in the free" • geralt - "crosses sunset silhouettes" • Hans - "agriculture tractor fertilize" • klimkin - "chickens birds poultry" • bogitw - "hay bales round farm"