Year 5
Transfer to Secondary School Information
For those who were unable to come to the meeting, here is the PowerPoint which was presented. You can collect your child's CAT4 scores from the office.
Year 5 Curriculum Projects
Allotment
Year 5 Project - Allotment
This half term, we’ll visit an allotment to see what’s growing and spot the greenhouses and frames that help the plants to grow. Our visit will inspire us to write a report about the allotment and investigate types of compost and biodegradable materials used. We’ll use food from the allotment to make delicious dishes, and plant our own fruits and vegetables. Our art skills will improve as we make detailed observational drawings, using botanical images for inspiration. We’ll write a set of instructions explaining how to plant a tree and learn how to care for plants. We’ll explore germination, learn more about the parts of the plant and find out how they reproduce. Maps will help us to identify the best place for an allotment and where different foods come from.
Memorable Experience - Visit an allotment
Innovate Challenge - Farmer's Market
Geography - Land Use; Food origins; Geographical skills and fieldwork; Map work; Climate
Science Investigations - Do dock leaves cure a sting? How many potatoes can you grow?
This project is also supported by mini projects in;
Science: Human Reproduction and Ageing
Art and Design: Line, Light and Shadows; Nature's Art
Design and Technology: Eat the Seasons
Music: derived from Charanga Unit
PE: derived from Greenacres Resources
PSHE: derived from Jigsaw
RE: derived from Kent SACRE Curriculum
Year 5 Key Information
PE lessons are timetabled for Wednesday and Thursday every week.
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Current spellings (beginning Mon 22nd May) are suffixes: able ible ably ibly
adorable
visible
considerable
possibly
possible
changeable
incredible
sensible
sensibly
considerably
horrible
reliable
reliably
noticeable
available
English
We will complete our work based on the animation 'Lost and Found'.
Maths:
This week we will continue our work on Position & Direction:
- translation with co-ordinates
- Lines of Symmetry
- Reflection in horizontal and vertical lines
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NO HOMEWORK SET OVER HALF TERM
LAST WEEK'S homework was;
- MATHS - p.72-75 due 25/5/23
- ENGLISH - p39 due 26/05/23
- READING - 20 minutes every day and record in your reading record.
We hope that everyone is enjoying the homework books. Hopefully, it is helping the children manage their time - especially as they will be set maths each Wednesday and English each Friday. For English and maths, the children have one week to complete the work and we will check it together at school.