Year 5H 2023 - 2024
Miss Healey
Welcome back everyone!
We have a really exciting half term ahead of us including World Book Day and our educational visit to Quarry Bank Mill! We cannot wait to see everyone in their costumes and learn more about Victorian life for children at the mill.
In English, we will begin the term by looking at the work of William Shakespeare and his famous plays! We will be focusing on understanding Romeo and Juliet and how we can use our knowledge and vocabulary to understand difficult words and phrases! We will then move onto non-fiction reference texts based on true or false and finally our poetry unit of ‘You Wait Till I'm Older Than You!’ where the children will be learning some very funny poems.
In Maths, alongside the revisiting of place value and the four operations, we will also look at factors and multiples so keep practicing your times tables! Don’t forget our Times Table Rockstar’s battles!
Our Science unit will look at changes in materials. We will be doing loads of experiments and looking at the properties of different materials. We will investigate reversible and irreversible changes as well as solubility!
For R.E. we will be focusing on the period of Lent, Holy Week and Easter and how this time in the Christian calendar is a celebration of Victory! We will look at the inspiration we can take from Jesus and his journey to the cross and resurrection and how we can use this to motivate us through our own life’s challenges and victories.
Our History topic is ‘What was life like for children during Queen Victoria’s reign?’ We will look at home life, education and we will get to experience this on our school trip!
In DT we will be looking at bread. We will look at the origins of bread making, bread around the world and eventually the children will be making their own tasty inventions!
May I remind you that although Year 5 are scheduled to have indoor P.E. three times a week, kit should be in school at all times in case on any last minute changes. The same applies to reading books. Please read with your children as often as you can it is invaluable to their learning!
Year 5H: Gallery items
World Book Day, by Mr Wood
St Peter's Pebbles Playground Assembly, by Mrs Brandwood
Year 5H: Events items
KS2 Decorate an Egg, by Mr Wood
Year 5 Trip Quarry Bank Mill, by Mr Wood
Year 5 Trip to Toad Lane, by Mr Wood