Year 5
Year 5 Curriculum Projects
Year 5 Project - Allotment
Develop children’s knowledge of plants, agriculture and where food comes from. Children learn about plant reproduction, cooking, nutrition and land use across the world.
Linked science investigations:
Do dock leaves cure a sting? How many potatoes can you grow?
| Memorable experience |
Visit an allotment |
|---|---|
| Innovate challenge |
Farmers' market |
| English |
Non-chronological reports; Instructions; Explanations; Narrative; Poetry |
| Geography |
Land use; Food origins; Geographical skills and fieldwork; Map work; Climate |
| A&D |
Botanical drawing and painting |
| Computing |
Using the web; Word processing |
| D&T |
Cooking and nutrition; Making planters; Making structures |
| PSHE |
Taking responsibility |
| Science |
Life cycles of animals and plants; Working scientifically |
| Science investigations |
Do dock leaves cure a sting? How many potatoes can you grow? |
Year 5 Key Information
PE lessons for Term 6 are timetabled for Tuesday and Fridays every week.
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Homework for this week:
- MATHS due 18/6/24
- Orange Group - numbers to 10, 000
- Purple Group - p104, p105 (p106 for a challenge)
- ENGLISH - No written homework set this week; please focus on reading in order to achieve your reading target by Thursday
- Green group -
- Orange group -
- READING - 20 minutes every day and record in your reading record.
Maths homework will be set each Wednesday and English each Thursday. For English and maths, the children have one week to complete the work and we will check it together at school.
Spellings will be learned in class and tested every Tuesday. The children can access Spelling Shed at home. Words with suffixes ent/ant will be tested on 18/6/24:
Honey Bees:
tolerant
tolerance
apparent
assistance
frequent
frequency
different
difference
independent
independence
obedient
observant
hindrance
excellent
excellence
Bumble Bees:
different
difference
excellent
independent
confident
difference
independence
tolerant
tolerance
frequent
English
Next week, we will continue with our work on narratives
Maths:
Next week we will begin a new topic of Negative Numbers.
Other information:
Don't forget, you can make and bring in a Flour Baby for the week starting 17th June.
In Term 6 PE lessons will be on Tuesdays and Fridays.
Also, please can everyone bring a water bottle to school every day.
Also reading books and reading records, please.
INFORMATION EVENING FOR PARENTS - KENT TEST APPLICATIONS (22.05.2024)
Thank you to all of you who attended this afternoon's meeting we hope you found the information helpful. Below is a copy of the presentation shared at the meeting. If you have any further questions, please do not hesitate to contact a member of the Year 5 Team.
APPLYING FOR A YEAR 7 PLACE FOR SEPTEMBER 2025 - (26.06.2024)
Thank you to all of you who attended this afternoon's meeting we hope you found the information helpful. Below is a copy of the presentation shared at the meeting. If you have any further questions, please do not hesitate to contact a member of the Year 5 Team.