Willow Class (Year 5)
Welcome to Willow Class: 2020 -2021
Year 5
Mr Thackway Mrs Pickering
Summer 1 - Life Cycles
This half term our topic is the Life Cycles!
In English we will be writing our own formal and informal letters. We will then be creating our own meeting stories. In Maths, we will be learning about fractions, decimals and percentages.
In our topic lessons we will cover:
Life cycles and changes - Science
Hinduism - R.E
Online Safety - Computing
Fieldwork - Geography
Living in the wider world - PSHE
Our PE day is on Monday and Friday. Don't forget to come into school in your PE kit:
- Trainers
- Black tracksuit bottoms/ black leggings/ black shorts
- Plain Red PE t-shirt
- School jumper
It is going to be a fantastic half term!
Summer 1 Class Novel
Spring 2 Anglo Saxons
This half term our topic is Anglo-Saxons! I sincerely hope that we will all be back together soon but you have all done a fantastic job learning from home.
In English we will be writing a suspense story and a historical story (Anglo-Saxon inspired). In Maths we will explore the area of shapes and return to our work on fractions.
In other subjects we will be at:
Science - Life cycle and changes in animals and plants
PE - Rounders
RE - Christianity
PSHE - Relationships
French - Giving opinions
Spring 2 - Class Novel
Spring 1 What is home?
This half term we will be exploring our local geography. We will use geographical vocabulary to describe distinctive man made and natural features of our surrounding area.
In English we will writing our own science fiction stories as well as a warning story.
In maths we will be continuing our work on fractions and make links to decimals and percentages.
Our PE day is Friday. Don't forget to come to school in your PE kit:
- Trainers
- Black tracksuit bottoms/ black leggings/ black shorts
- Plain Red PE t-shirt
- School jumper
Spring 1 Class Novel
Autumn 2 Space!
This half term our topic is Space!
In English, we will be writing recount texts as well as reading and performing poetry. In Maths, we continue our work on multiplication and division.
Our PE day is Friday. Don't forget to come to school in your PE kit:
- Trainers
- Black tracksuit bottoms/ black leggings/ black shorts
- Plain Red PE t-shirt
- School jumper
It is going to be another fantastic half term!
Autumn 2 Class Novel
Varjak Paw
"There are Seven Skills in the Way of Jalal," whispered the Elder Paw. "We know only three of them. Their names are these. Slow-Time. Moving Circles. Shadow-Walking."
Varjak Paw is a Mesopotamian Blue kitten. He lives high up in an old house on a hill. He's never left home, but then his grandfather tells him about the Way – a secret martial art for cats.
Now Varjak must use the Way to survive in a city full of dangerous dogs, cat gangs, and strangest of all, the mysterious Vanishings...
Autumn 1 Ancient Greeks!
This half term our topic is the Ancient Greeks!
In English we will be reading Greek myths. We will be studying the story of Arachne. In History we will be covering topics such as war, sports and Gods as we delve into what life was like in ancient Greece. In Maths, we will reach numbers as high as 100,000 and begin to look at rounding to a range of place values.
Our PE day is Friday. Don't forget to come into school in your PE kit:
- Trainers
- Black tracksuit bottoms/ black leggings/ black shorts
- Plain Red PE t-shirt
- School jumper
It is going to be a fantastic half term!
Autumn 1 Class Novel
