Welcome to Year 5
Our Class Teacher is Mrs Yates
History
The Anglo-Saxons
In Autumn 1, we will be learning all about the Anglo-Saxons. Year 5 will explore this topic through 5 key enquiry questions. Children will explore what life was like in Britannia at the end of the 4th century and discover why the Roman Empire fell. We will then examine why the Angles, Saxons and Jutes settled in Britain; deciding whether they were pulled towards Britain or pushed away from their homelands. Children will also explore how Anglo-Saxon Britain was ruled. This unit of work will provide a rich and comparative study of the Anglo-Saxon period.
Our key questions will be:
- What was life like in Britannia at the end of the 4th century?
- How did life change in England after the fall of the Roman Empire?
- Why did the Angles, Saxons and Jutes settle in Britain?
- Were the Anglo-Saxons pulled to Britain or pushed away from their homelands?
- How was Anglo-Saxon Britain Ruled
Writing - Pathways to Write
Autumn 1 Text: Queen of the Falls – Chris Van Allsburg
In our writing lessons this term, we will be reading Queen of the Falls by Chris Van Allsburg and the children will be using it as a foundation for developing their writing skills.
Our writing outcome for this half term is to write a series of diaries about significant events in Annie Edson Taylor’s life.
Children will be focusing on the following mastery keys:
• Identify the audience for and purpose of writing
• Organise paragraphs around a theme with a focus on more complex narrative structures
• Use commas after fronted adverbials
• Use commas to clarify meaning or avoid ambiguity in writing
Maths
In Autumn 1, we will be focusing on the following units:
- Place Value
- Addition and Subtraction
Science
Our science topic this half term is Properties of Materials. At the beginning of this unit, we will research scientist Spencer Silver, who is well-known for creating the adhesive used on the famous ‘post it note’. We will then investigate five key enquiry questions:
- How can different materials be classified?
- Which material should your teacher use to keep their coffee warm?
- Are all materials the same hardness?
- Which materials are soluble and insoluble?
- How can mixtures be separated?
Art & DT
In our art lessons this half term, we will be studying the work of Kurt Schwitters. Children will research his famous ‘Merz’ collage paintings and will use his work as inspiration to create their own collages.
Children's Right and SDGs
The children will explore SDG 12 - Responsible consumption and production .
We will also explore Children’s Rights Article 8 – Identity.
These themes will be interwoven in our studies through other topics.
PSHE
In Autumn 1, we will be starting our new PSHE scheme, ‘Kapow’. The first unit we will look at in year 5 is ‘Families and Relationships’. Children will learn about how to form and maintain positive relationships and debate how to solve potential problems within friendships.
Music
This half term music will be taught by Mrs Yates within the classroom. The unit of work is called ‘Improvising Colours’ and children will be using untuned instruments to compose their own scores, inspired by colours.
Spanish
Our Spanish unit for Autumn 1 is ‘All About Me’ and this unit will be taught by Mrs Horrocks during Mrs Yates’s PPA time on a Friday.
RE
Our RE unit for Autumn 1 is Buddhism and this unit will be taught by Mrs Horrocks during Mrs Yates’s PPA time on a Friday. Children will explore the question, What does Buddhism teach us about human experience?
PE and Swimming
PE will be taught by Multiflex on a Friday and swimming will take place on Thursday afternoons at the leisure centre. Please send children into school wearing full Egerton PE kit on those days and bringing their swimming kit in a bag on the Thursday.
Please check our Curriculum map for more information.
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Mrs Yates