Year 5C 2024 - 2025

Welcome back to our final half term of the year! 

This year has absolutely flown by and we will be very sad to see it over. The children have been so wonderful and really made this year a fantastic one to teach.

In English this half term, we will begin our term by reading Kensuke’s Kingdom by Michael Morpurgo a wonderful story of adventure and friendship! We will be investigating settings, character development, dialogue and narrative style. We will be focusing specifically on comprehension skills and will be analysing the book chapter by chapter.

In Maths, we will start by ordering and comparing decimal numbers, and then the children will use this skill and apply it to problem solving activities, including the use of percentages and decimals. We will then move onto analysing data from graphs. This will be followed by an assessment week which will give the children an opportunity to show off what they have learnt. Finally, we will focus on metric and imperial units.

For our Science Unit, Year Five will look at the unit of forces. We will be exploring more complex forces, building on the learning from Year 3. We will look at gravity, friction, air and water resistance and applying these to lots of fun and informative experiments.

For R.E. Year 5 will explore What Matters Most to Humanists and Christians. During this unit, we will talk and think about the impact of religion on people’s lives and when religion is absent in Humanists and Atheists, how does that change worldviews, core beliefs and values.

We will also begin our final History topic, by investigating the big question ‘Who were the Rochdale pioneers?’ In this unit, the children will explore the beginning of the co-operative movement and how this started in our very own hometown! We will be exploring further the concepts of inequality and justice and how these interact with the social classes of Victorian Rochdale.

In DT, we will be looking at CAM mechanisms. We will be exploring how they function and have a go at creating our own. This will build to our final piece which will be an exciting and creative CAM toy.

Year 5 will also be completing their Young Leader’s Award lessons – in this subject we will be looking into our community, finding pockets of need and how we can work together as a community to improve our local area. It is a lovely lesson where we develop communication, team-work and compassion.

Homework

Homework will be given to the children on Friday and is expected back in to school on Monday.

Reading Books

Reading books are to be in school every day, please read with your children as often as possible it is vital to their success in their learning.

P.E.

May I remind you that, although Year 5 are scheduled to have P.E. on a Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday, kit should be in school at all times in case of any last-minute changes.

Thank you for your continued support, The Year 5 Team!