Year 5
Year 5 Curriculum Projects
Year 5 Project - Off With Her Head!
Let’s travel back in time to meet the terrifying Tudors.
During this half term, we’ll meet a very important figure from history who will give us a problem to solve. Online research will help us to write biographies about influential people of the period, and we’ll use source materials to create a Tudor timeline. Tudor portraits will provide us with the inspiration to create royal paintings; we’ll learn a courtly dance and compose Tudor music. Our geography skills will help us to compare maps of Tudor London to present day London and plot Anne Boleyn’s journey to her execution. Internet research will help us learn more about Henry’s life, his marriages and his break from the Roman Catholic church.
Help your child prepare for their project
The Tudors were a domineering dynasty who changed the course of history. Why not visit a local museum to learn more about Tudor times? You could also visit a town with Tudor architecture. Look out for black and white, timber-framed buildings. They will be easy to spot! Or visit your local library to find out more about this fascinating family.
Memorable Experience - Elizabeth I deathbed scene
History - The Tudors
Geography - Ordnance Survey maps; Contour lines; Six-figure grid references; Time zones; Climate zones; Vegetation belts; Biomes; Human geography; World cities; Sustainable manufacturing processes; Relatives locations and distances; Transport networks; Settlement hierarchy; Local enquiry; Fieldwork
This project is also supported by mini projects in:
Science: Properties and Changes of Materials
Art and Design: Expression
Design and Technology: Moving Mechanisms
Computing: derived from D.A.R.E.S
Music: derived from Kapow
PE: derived from TeamThemeKent Resources
PSHE: derived from Jigsaw
RE: derived from Kent SACRE Curriculum and Cornerstones RE projects
More information about the Year 5 Curriculum can be found in the YEAR 5 Long Term Plan 2024 document found below.
Year 5 Key Information
PE lessons for Term 1 are timetabled for Tuesday and Thursday every week.
In term 2, swimming lessons will take place every Friday at The Stour Centre, Ashford.
Homework for this week:
- MATHS - No homework set this week due to school visit to Tower of London.
- ENGLISH - practise your spellings on Spelling Shed
- READING - Please continue to complete 20 minutes of reading every day and make a note in your reading record.
Spellings Honey Bees:
actual
continue
prosecute
communicate
popular
regular
substitute
altitude
community
occupy
humour
human
opportunity
rescue
individual
molecule
English
W/C 11.11.24
We will continue our work on journalistic writing.
Spellings Bumble Bees:
beauty
use
beautiful
Tuesday
new
tune
few
rescue
continue
tube
Europe
Maths:
W/C 18.11.24
Adding and subtracting fractions.
W/C 25.11.24
Subtracting fractions and mixed numbers.
Other information:
PE Term 2
Our new PE topic for Term 2 will be Paralympic Sport which will be lead by the coaches from Teamtheme. This will be on Tuesdays. We will also be swimming on Friday afternoons. Remember PE kits on Tuesdays and swimming kit for Fridays.
Please can everyone bring a water bottle to school every day.
Don't forget to bring reading books and reading records, please.
Now that the weather is more changeable, please ensure that wellies are brought into school.
YEAR 5 - Meet the Teacher
The presentation shown at the transition from Year 4 to Year 5 'Meet the Teacher' meeting is provided for your information.