Year 5
Welcome to
Year 5
Miss Duvall - Year 5 Teacher
Miss Burns - Year 5 Support
PE- Monday and Wednesday
Homework packs are sent home weekly alongside reading books.
Please return reading books Thursday to be changed.
Homework menus are sent out each half term.
Thanks
Year 5
Class Posts
Y5 D&T
Autumn
In DT this term year 5 have been designing and making mechanisms – we made pulley-operated Ferris wheels. We researched the uses of pulleys and found that there was three purposes: to raise a load, to lower a load and to rotate an object. We used this third purpose to design our Ferris wheels. We made braces to support the wheels and attached a simple pulley to rotate the wheel. We evaluated our creations by stating the things that went well and some things we would do differently if we were to do it again.
Spring
In Spring term year 5 will be building Viking huts which relates to the topic we will be learning about in history. We will look to make 3D structures using hinges
Planning, designing and creating medieval huts which linked to our history topic – Vikings.
Y5 Art
Autumn
In art this term year 5 have been looking at the artist Andy Goldsworthy. We have researched about all the different sculptures he had made, one being the rain shadow. From this research it has helped us to be able to create one of our own sculptures or recreate one of Andy Goldsworthy’s creations.
Spring
This term in art year 5 have been looking at the artist Andy Warhol and the different pop art pictures he created. We had to research information about Andy Warhol and some of his famous paintings. This allowed us to be able to create our own self portraits in many different colours so that all four picture were different.
Summer
In art this term year 5 have been learning about the artist Barbara Hepworth who was a English artist who created modern sculptors. Year 5 have researched different sculptors Hepworth created, which we then tried to recreate or helped us to create our own sculptors.
Y5 P.S.H.E.
Autumn
In PSHE this term year 5 are looking at physical health and well-being. We have created a healthy eating plate explaining why it is important to eat the right types of food and how much of each portion we should be eating to maintain and health lifestyle. We have also looked at why it is important to have sleep in our lifestyles.
In PSHE we have been looking at medicine. We have studied what medicine is and why we use it, discussing that medicine should only be taken when there is a grown up supervising us taking it. Year 5 then created their own poster about medicine and the rules we should follow when taking medicine.
Spring
This term in PSHE year 5 are learning about living in the wider world. We will be looking and learning about shared responsibilities, different communities, economic wellbeing and aspirations, work and career.
This term in PSHE year 5 have been learning about money and work. We have looked at different jobs that we can go into in the future (firefighter, doctor, hairdresser) and what stereotypes and discrimination is.
Summer
This term year 5 have taken part in many different activities within Well-Being week. We have enjoyed taking part in team building activities, tubing at the snow centre and handball tournaments.
Y5 Spanish
Autumn
In Spanish this term year 5 have been learning about our family members, different colours and different types of clothing that we wear.
Spring
In spanish this term year 5 are learning about different types of transport we can travel on and different rooms that we can find in our homes.
Summer
This term in Spanish we are learning about different hobbies that we enjoy to take part in, in our everyday life.
Y5 Music
This term in music year 5 have been music composers and have been learning how to product their own songs.
Y5 History
Autumn
In history year 5 have studied the Anglo Saxons and have looked at the impact they had. They have explored different key individuals and how the past is constructed from a range of sources.
Spring
In history this term year 5 have been learning about the vikings and how the vikings would do anything for money. We have explored where the vikings came from and the reasons why they invaded. We have also looked at King Alfred’s, artefacts, dunes and burial sites.
Comparing modern day Ordnance Survey maps to Victorian Times maps.
Y5 Maths
Autumn
In maths this term we are learning about number and place value. We have looked at comparing and ordering numbers to one million, Rounding to the nearest 100 and counting in 10s, 100s, 1000s, 10,000s and 100,000s.
In maths we have been looking at decimals. We have been looking adding and subtracting whole numbers and decimals, adding decimals with 1 and looking at money and subtracting two different amounts to find out what our change would be.
Year 5 have been learning how to multiply 2 digits by 1 digit numbers, multiplying 4 digit by 1 digit numbers and using the correct technique (Long multicapation) to to work these calculations out. We have also looked at how to divide 2 digit by 1 digit numbers and 3 digit by 1 digit numbers using the bus stop method.
Spring
In maths this term year 5 will be learning about measure. We will be working out the perimeter and area of different shapes. We will be covering different units of measures for example centimetres to metres, grams to kilograms. We will also be learning about positions of shapes, thinking about how angles are measured.
Year 5 are working on Fractions this term. They have been looking at equivalent fractions, fractions greater than 1, improper to mixed number fractions and compare and ordering fractions greater than 1. We have also been studying how to multiply mixed numbers by integers, fractions of different amounts and decimals as fractions.
In maths we have recapped rounding decimals and applied our knowledge to be able to order and compare decimals. We have also studied and gained a understanding of percentages.
Summer
In maths this term year 5 are looking at angles. We have identified angles (right angles, acute angles and obtuse angles), comparing and ordering different angles, measuring angles in degrees, calculating angles around a point and measuring with a protractor remembering to always line the point up.
In maths this term we are studying shape. We are looking at 2D and 3D shapes. We will be looking at the net of different shapes and how we build and put together there net. We have counted how many faces these shapes have and what different angles these shapes have within them.
In maths this term year 5 are learning how to read and plot different coordinates. We have looked at describing positions and drawing and marking points on a grid. Also we have learnt about translation and translations with coordinates looking at how many squares we move a shape either three places to the left and 2 up.
This term year 5 are learning about lines of symmetry, thinking about how many lines of symmetry a shape has, reflection – thinking about what a shape would look like if we were to have a mirror down the middle of the shape and completing a symmetric figure. We have drawn different shapes outside on the playground and got our partners to complete the shape we have drawn on the other side of the symmetry line.
Y5 Geography
Autumn
In geography this term we have been studying the Amazon Rainforest. We have created fact files on Jaguars. We have also looked at life in manous, shifting cultivation and deforestation.
Spring
In geography this term year 5 are learning how our county is changing. We will be looking at the London Olympics 2012 and what impact this had to make the construction, jobs and tourism better. We will learn how the cities are changing looking closely in Coventry in the 1940s to what it looks like nowadays.
Summer
This term in geography year 5 have been studying are we damaging our world. We have looked at the ocean and how we are damaging and harming the animals in the ocean.
In geography week this term, we have been learning about the Amazon Rainforest. We have used atlases and IPads to locate all 7 continents, specifically South America and have been able to identify the different rainforests across the world on the map. We also created fact files and posters on the city of Manaus and different rainforest animals.
Some of the interesting things we have learnt:
The Amazon Rainforest is located in South America with 60% in Brazil, 13% in Peru and 10% in Columbia.
Other countries have very small parts in their borders.
One of the biggest problems the Amazon Rainforest faces is deforestation.
We need trees to clean the carbon dioxide out of the air, and produce the oxygen we need to breathe.
Two ways we can help deforestation is by recycling and buying recycled products and by going paperless.
We as a school, are already taking steps to save our planet by reducing the paper we use.
Y5 English
Autumn
This term in English we have been reading the book ‘Henry’s Freedom box’. Henry was a slave who lived in 1800s America who had lost everything when his family was taking away from him. Henry came up with a idea in which he was going to mail himself to Philadelphia to escape slavery and give himself a better life. Year 5 have been writing their own diary entries from one of the characters in the story.
Year 5’s next writing outcome will be to write non-fiction biographies about Henry Brown using the biography of Martin Luther King as the model example.
Y5 Computing
Autumn
This term in computing year 5 have been looking at YouTubers. We have looked at the positive and negatives of a YouTuber. We have studied the safety tips, which has helped us when we have come to creating our own vlog.
Year 5 have been taking part in a number of different STEAM activity in computing. These activities have included tackling codes to move the Lightbot, maths, art and lots of different problems solving. Year 5 have had to build structures out of spaghetti and marshmallows to be strong enough to hold a kinder egg on the top.
Spring
In computing year 5 are looking at and explaining what augmented reality is and thinking how a computer would to be be able to solve the problem. We are then going to design and create our own AR game.
This term in computing, year 5 are learning and producing their own songs for video games. We will then film our own clips or short videos and add our own music that we have created to the video.
