This week's Learning in Year 5 at a glance
Year 5
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Learning Link: Terrific Tudors!This term we will be finding out all about those terrible ……Oh! We mean TERRIFIC Tudors. Although, the Tudors have a reputation for lots of beheadings and weddings, in fact their legacy goes much further. We will be exploring how the Tudors changed the religion of the country and the discoveries they made. At the end of the topic, we will celebrate our learning by using our knowledge to take part in a Tudor S=P+A+C+E Day, complete with costumes and drama. |
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St Kea: Mr Kitcatt St. Philippa: Miss Pedlingham |
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Curriculum Newsletters for Autumn, Spring and Summer can be accessed here as they become available |
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Year Group reminders |
Week Commencing: Monday 7th September 2026 Week B Monday: PE for both classes. Tuesday: Wednesday: Whole school Mass 2pm Thursday: PE for both classes Friday: CGP Workout 1 due. Looking further ahead: Wednesday 16th September - Curriculum Evening Thursday 24th September – Macbeth Workshop with Young Shakespeare Company Friday 9th October – 5K trip to RGS Friday 16th October – 5P trip to RGS. Monday 19th October – Parents Evening Wednesday 21st October – Parents Evening Reminders: Please ensure all your child’s uniform is named, we will be doing spot checks. |
Homework |
Monday: New spellings to give out and tested on Monday 14th September. Wednesday: Computing- Online safety family task. Friday: CGP workout Autumn 2 – mark the following Friday 18th September |
Reading for Pleasure |
Macbeth (abridged version by Andrew Matthews) |
RE |
Creation and Covenant The Story of Moses To explore the scriptures and identify key vocabulary. We will also be looking at the Covenant Moses made with God and retelling the story of Moses and the Ten Commandments. |
English |
Writing Identify features of a police report and plan and write a report To analyse a police report and be able to successfully identify the features. Once identified, the next step will be to plan and write a report using these features. Master Readers: Macbeth Monday: Whole class reading of text Tuesday: Book Club Wednesday: Modelled comprehension Thursday: Independent comprehension and review Friday: Edit and review and read Focus vocabulary this week: lingered, gloating, lashed, sprouted, thane, whinnied. |
SPAG |
Spelling: To spell words ending in ‘-tious’ and ‘-ious’
Grammar/punctuation To include subordinating conjunctions
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Maths |
PLACE VALUE WITHIN 1,000,000 To find the value of each digit in numbers to 1,000,000.
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Science |
PROPERTIES OF MATERIALS To know that materials have different uses depending on their properties and use key vocabulary to describe these properties. |
Art |
TUDOR PORTRAITS To explore why portraits were important to the Tudors. |
Computing |
ONLINE SAFETY To understand what makes a “healthy media choice” and to reflect on how healthy our own media choices are. |
History |
THE TUDORS (LOCAL AREA STUDY) To explore when the Tudor period was in British History. |
French |
This learning will begin next week. |
Music |
We will be introduced to sea shanties and learn a sea shanty song. |
PE |
Netball Pass, receive and shoot the ball with increasing control under pressure. Football Move into space to help a team and maintain possession. Play in a range of positions and know how to contribute when attacking and defending. Dodgeball Explain what happens to my body when I exercise. Catch with increasing accuracy. Provide feedback using key words and understand what I need to do to improve. Share ideas and work with others to manage our game. |
Learning for Life |
Calming of the storm To learn we were created individually by God who cares for us and wants us to put our faith in Him. Also to understand that physically becoming an adult is a natural phase of life. |
