Year 5 2024 - 2025
Miss Taylor
Mrs Sanderson
Welcome to Year 5
This term our topic is: 'Sow, Grow and Farm'
In the Sow, Grow and Farm project, your child will learn about allotments in the United Kingdom and how the government encouraged people to have them to support food rationing during the Second World War. They will learn about food webs and animal life cycles, including how living things are dependent on one another within a habitat. They will investigate the different ways that plants reproduce and will dissect flowering plants to identify the different structures. They will have the opportunity to learn about farming in the United Kingdom and the techniques used in modern farming, including the challenges that farmers face. They will learn about the benefits of eating seasonally and about the pros and cons of importing food. They will also learn about world farming and how the different climate zones affect where different foods can be grown.
We will also be learning about:
Science
Human Reproduction and Ageing
In the Human Reproduction and Ageing project, your child will learn what life cycles are, order the stages of life cycles for different animal species and compare them. They will learn what mammals are and the five key mammalian characteristics. They will sort vertebrates, deciding whether or not they are mammals. They will look closely at different mammalian life cycles and make comparisons. They will investigate the relationship between the mass of mammals and how long they carry their young by creating and interpreting scatter graphs. They will learn about the stages and processes of the human life cycle. They will learn about human gestation from embryo to birth. They will investigate how humans change and develop from infant to adolescence in the juvenile stage. They will learn about the changes that happen during puberty. They will interpret data about human growth and learn about the human reproductive system and sexual reproduction. They will learn about how humans change as they get older. They will investigate how ageing affects reaction times.
RE
5.3 Jesus the Teacher
5.4 Why do Christians believe that Easter is a celebration of Victory?
Art:
Sow, Grow and Farm
Design Technology:
Eat the Seasons
This project is linked to Sow, Grow and Farm.This project teaches children about the meaning and benefits of seasonal eating, including food preparation and cooking techniques.
PSHE:
Keeping Myself Safe
Children will:
• Explain what a habit is,
• Describe why and how a habit can be hard to change.
• Recognise that there are positive and negative risks;
• How to weigh up risk factors when making a decision;
• Describe some of the possible outcomes of taking a risk.
• Strategies to deal with both face-to-face/online bullying;
• Strategies for supporting others who are bullied;
• Difference between online and face-to-face bullying
Rights and Responsibilities
Children will:
• Identify, write and discuss issues currently in the media concerning health and wellbeing;
• Express their opinions on an issue concerning health and wellbeing;
• Make recommendations on an issue concerning health and wellbeing.
• What's the story?
• Understand the difference between a fact and an opinion;
• Understand what biased reporting is and the need to think critically about things we read.
PE
Spring 1: Net and Well Tennis Creative Games
Spring 2: Althetics Striking and Fielding (Rounders)
Music
This half term our music unit is Classroom Jazz.
Computing:
• Databases
• Game Creator
• 3D Modelling
Children will be widening their knowledge and IT skills.
MFL
What is the Weather?Quel temp fait-il?
• Repeat and recognise the vocabulary for weather in French.
• Ask and say what the weather is like today.
• Create a French weather map.
• Describe the weather in different regions of France using a weather map with symbols.
We will continue this term with our weekly French lessons led by Mrs Sanderson. The children will be learning about how to describe the weather in French.
Pick and Mix
Your child will bring home their Pick and Mix linked to their topic. Pick and Mix projects are suggested activities that help to inspire children beyond the classroom. Each activity provides an opportunity for children to explore their topic further using a number of different skills. When children have finished a project, they can bring this into school where each class will have a designated time to celebrate the learning that has taken place. Projects can stay in school and be displayed on each class’s working wall or can be taken home.
If you have any questions about how to further support your child's learning at home, please contact your child's class teacher via Class Dojo or the school office.
Files to Download
Year 5: Gallery items
Rock piles and litter picking, by Mrs Sanderson
Bug Hotel Revamp!, by Mrs Sanderson
Learning about the Qur'an, by Mrs Sanderson