Year 5

Learning Link: The Final Frontier

The Spring term is another exciting term where we will build on the firm foundations from Autumn in all the subjects.  We will be exploring space and sci-fi themes in English and Science, taking a wild ride with water in Geography and developing our use of multiplication, division and fractions in Maths.  The term will culminate in a performance by the whole year group of The Passion.

St Kea:

Mr Kitcatt – mrkitcatt@st-thomas.surrey.sch.uk

St. Philippa:

Miss Pedlingham – misspedlingham@st-thomas.surrey.sch.uk

Curriculum Newsletters for Autumn, Spring and Summer can be accessed here as they become available

The Curriculum Evening Presentation can be accessed here

Year Group reminders

Week Commencing: Monday 9th March 2026

Week A

Monday: Science Fair project deadline. New spellings and test

Tuesday: Highwayman Workshop.  Extra PE for 5K

Wednesday:

Thursday:  Marking CGP Workout 9 and set Workout 10

Friday: INSET DAY - school closed

Cold weather: Please can you send children into school with gloves and hats to wear during break, lunch and PE Lessons please. Base layers for sports are appropriate on PE days and ideally would be Navy blue in colour. School tracksuit trousers are to be worn in the winter to replace PE shorts.

Looking further ahead:

• Tuesday 17^th March - The Passion Play
• Friday 20^th March - Forest School for both 5K and 5P. Open Afternoon
• Thursday 26^th March - SPACE Celebration Day
• Friday 27^th March - End of Term – school finishes at 2pm

Reminders:

Please logon to Google Classrooms and practise the Passion Play songs by Tuesday 17th March.

Homework

Reading for Pleasure

Cosmic by Frank Cottrell Boyce

RE

Desert to Garden

How does scripture help us return to God?

To use my knowledge of the Ten Commandments and Beatitudes to know how Jesus wants us to act during Lent.

English

Writing - Book Week

To write a book review

Children to choose their favourite book, bring it into class and write a review for their friends to persuade them to read it!

To write a character based story

Author visit - Children will be creating a story based on the characters they have learnt from the guest author on Wednesday.

Master Readers: The Highway Man by Alfred Noyes

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: torrent, gusty, peaked, scarce, cascade, sniggering jest

SPAG

Spelling:

To spell words with ‘ough’

Grammar

To include compound sentences:

Maths

FRACTIONS

To recognise fraction and decimal equivalents.

Science

EARTH AND SPACE

To understand how far apart the different planets in the Solar System are?

DT

LUNAR ROVERS

To understand what features lunar rovers are designed with.

Computing

COMIC LIFE

To combine digital images from the internet for a specific task and audience.

Geography

School trip to Winchester Science Centre.

French

We are designing our café menu

Music

We will continue to learn the songs for the Passion Play.

PE

Gymnastics

Create and perform sequences using apparatus, individually and with a partner. Suggest ways sequences could be improved. Use canon and synchronisation, matching and mirroring when performing.

Tag Rugby

This unit allows children to apply invasion game skills to a new sport. They will learn to throw a rugby ball in a backwards pass movement, track and evade opponents and dodge to create space and scoring opportunities.

Badminton

Holding the racket and adjusting to the length vs tennis rackets when serving and returning.

In badminton they outwit an opponent by placing an object away from an opponent to make it difficult for them to return.

Learning for Life

LifeSpace recount

To recall the session in the LifeSpace tent and journal what we learnt.