Year 5 - Circus and Thermae
Welcome to Year 5
Mr Bird and Mr Brain are delighted to be part of your child's learning experience this year as Circus Class and Thermae Class. We will be supported by Mrs Fortune, Mrs Branston, Mrs Bendle, Mrs Lister, Mrs Taylor and Miss Davis. We are always around to support both you and the children. If you need anything or you have any questions or queries please don't hesitate - pop in and speak to one of us!
Weekly timetable:
Below, you will find an example of our 'normal' weekly timetable. We will endeavour to keep to this, though as you know, school life can be variable and surprising, and we will let the children know of any changes in advance!
Term 1: Rainforest Rescue
This term we will be learning all about the rainforest - from the creatures that live there and where these delicate habitats are found around the world, to the ecological impacts of deforestation and the efforts being made to save the rich ecosystems. We will be reading the exciting novel 'The Explorer' by Katherine Rundell, following Fred as he crashes and tries to survive in the Amazon rainforest!
Knowledge Organiser -T1-Rainforest-Rescuers.docx
Spellings
In order to better support our spellers, we will be completing a weekly spelling quiz on Friday mornings to help secure basic understanding.
As usual, children may require some extra assistance when learning the words as they will delivered in a contextually correct sentence – for example: “The children kept their shoes in a small box beneath the stairs”.
Their weekly results will be used as evidence to support their writing assessments at the end of the school year.
Y5-TERM-1-SPELLING-OVERVIEW-2024.docx
Y5-TERM-1-REVISION-SPELLING-GROUP-OVERVIEW-2024-1.docx
Term 2: Beyond the Wardrobe Doors
This term, our learning is going to be centred around the class novel, ‘The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe.’ We are going to explore writing effective setting descriptions and creating our own journey narratives in English. Furthermore, we are going to explore creating art using found materials based on the autumnal/wintery theme.
Knowledge-Organiser-T2-Beyond-the-Wardrobe-Doors.docxY5T2-Beyond-The-Wardrobe-Doors-THEME-LEAFLET-Website.docx
Spellings
Y5-TERM-2-SPELLING-OVERVIEW.docx
Y5-TERM-2-REVISION-GROUP-SPELLINGS.docx
Term 3: Letters from the Lighthouse
In this term of Year 5, we are again travelling back in time to the era of World War II, answering the enquiry question, "How did British society change as a result of WWII?" We will begin by exploring photographs taken during the war and use our super inference skills to answer questions about the photographs.
We will be reading the novel 'Letter from the Lighthouse' by Emma Carroll (a Bath Spa University alumni!) and using this to inspire our own letter writing in English.
Y5T3-Letters-from-the-Lighthouse-KNOWLEDGE-ORGANISER.pdf
