This week’s Learning at a glance

This week’s Learning in Year 5 at a glance!

 

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

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

Spring Curriculum Information Booklet

Curriculum Evening Presentation: CE 5

Year Group reminders

Week Commencing: Monday 10th February 2025

Week B

Weekly reminders:

Monday: PE for 5K

Tuesday:  PE for Year 5. Safer Internet Day.

Thursday: Times Table check. Stargazing Evening

Friday: CGP homework due in – Spring Workout 6

LifeSpace visit – Wednesday 12th February

Reading for Pleasure

Book of the Week:

Cosmic by Frank Cottrell-Boyce

RE

Galilee to Jerusalem

Living the Beatitudes

To show understanding of how the virtue of either hope or charity (love) links with Jesus’ teaching in the Beatitudes.

English

Writing

LC: To write character descriptions as a blurb including relative clauses

To use the class text; ‘Cosmic’ to develop character description and to reduce it to a few sentences using relative clauses.

Text: Zlata’s Diary by Zlata Filipovi?

Focus Vocabulary this week:

eviction

seduces

occasional

compresses

refugees

naturally

SPAG

Spelling

LC: To spell words with ‘ie’ after ‘c’

Grammar and punctuation

Embedded relative clause:

Maths

DECIMALS

LQ: How do we compare decimals?

LQ: How do we round decimals?

Science

FORCES

LQ: How have simple machines changed over time?

To understand how gears, levers and pulleys have helped to make more complicated machines over time.

Art

SPACE ART

LC: To finish off and present our Space Art.

Computing

Safer Internet Day

Geography

WATER MANAGEMENT

LC: To understand what causes droughts and how they can be managed.

To explore what a drought is and how they are caused, as well as the different efforts that can be put in place to limit their effects.

French

LC: To say I am thirsty and ask for a drink.

Music

Surrey Arts – TooTs

Skills to be covered:

Pulse
Tempo
Pitch
Rhythm
Recognising woodwind instruments
How to hold and blow the TooT
Reading rhythms – quavers, crotchets and minims
Body percussion
Playing together
Listening
Singing

For further information visit: https://www.annawilkinsmusic.com/learning/toot-and-dood

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

LIFE SPACE

Homework

Monday: Reading- answer 4 reading questions from inside your reading journals. Due 24th Feb

CGP books going out.  Workout 6

Thursday: New spellings.  Write 5 sentences which include 5 of the spelling words. CGP book- Spring workout 4. 27th Feb