Year 5

Welcome to Year 5 where you will find Mrs Davies, Mrs Lewis and Miss Belwey.

During the first half of the Summer term, we will be further developing our understanding of the world through our geography topic – ‘Polar Regions.’ We will compare and contrast physical and human geography in both regions and study the impact humans are having on the coldest parts of the world. Through our Literacy Tree programme, we will be learning about the incredible women of NASA in the text ‘Hidden Figures’ and then moving on to some Greek Mythology through the ‘Odyssey.’

After half term, our history topic is ‘The Ancient Greeks’ (one of my favourites!). We will learn about how the Ancient Greek civilisation brought us so much that influences the world we live in today, such as: democracy, theatre, philosophy and the Olympics. We will learn all about the different gods and goddesses and how religion impacted the daily lives of the Ancient Greeks. We can also look forward to our ‘Ancient Greek Day’ where we will learn to dance like a Greek and try some tasty foods.

Our science topics across the term will focus the chemistry topics – Materials and Changing States. We will conduct investigations that will allow us to explore dissolving, filtering separating materials and how materials change states.

PE will take place on Tuesdays and Wednesdays for this term and all children are required to wear the correct PE kit and appropriate footwear.

In year 5, spellings will be sent home with your child every Monday and they will be tested every Friday. Please encourage and support your child in practising their spellings regularly, this is vital to the learning process.

Home work is set each Friday. This will alternate between English and Maths and will usually be a revision of the topics covered that week. This must be returned by the following Monday.

Reading is a very important part of our curriculum and your child will receive a reading book that will be changed on a Monday. Children must bring their reading book to school at least once a week to be checked by an adult. We award prizes for those children who read regularly so please try to encourage them.

I am excited for the term ahead! If you have any queries, please do not hesitate to contact me.

T​opic Web - Summer 1

T​opic Web - Summer 2

C​urriculum Map