Year 5 – Jaguars

This term, we are reading The Nowhere Emporium! It is a fantastic novel about a boy named Daniel who discovers a shop with shimmering midnight-black bricks. However, nobody remembers the shop once they leave and the price of admission is your imagination…

We will be using this text in our reading lessons, developing our skills in retrieving information, making inferences, summaries and comparisons and explaining the author’s language and vocabulary choices.

In writing, we will be learning how to create a letter of complaint and we will be writing a narrative with suspense.

We will be developing our understanding of shape by learning about angles. We will also be learning about position and direction and developing our knowledge about decimals.

We are learning about states of matter, understanding how particles are arranged in solids, liquids and gases.

In R.E. we are developing our understanding of Christianity and exploring the question ‘what would Jesus do?’. Then, we will consider what matters most to Christians and Humanists.

In history, we are learning about a local piece of history: the Battle of Evesham! We will learn how Simon de Montfort led the rebellion against King Henry III during the Second Barons’ War.

In art, we are learning about Alberto Giacometti, who was famous for his tall, thin sculptures. We will be using Mod-Roc to create our own sculptures.

In D.T., we have been learning about pulleys and gears. We will be designing and making cranes using lattice structures.

In P.E., we will spend the summer term developing our fielding and batting skills in rounders.

In PSHE, we will be learning about economic wellbeing.

In computing, we will be learning about binary code in our data handling unit.

In music, we will be developing our understanding and appreciation of music with musical theatre.

We will be learning to talk about our families in French.

Our class text is Who Let the Gods Out? by Maz Evans. We will use this text to develop our reading skills and as inspiration for our writing lessons. We are currently learning to write a balanced argument about detentions, based on the main character, Elliot, who has to endure an after-school detention with his nemisis, Mr Boil!

In maths, we have been learning to multiply 4-digit numbers by 2-digit numbers. Next, we will be further developing our knowledge and understanding of fractions and then learning about decimal numbers.

Mrs Barnes is currently teaching us about Earth and space. We will learn about the order of the planets and he shape and size of Earth.

We learned about French verbs and now we are learning French words for shopping items and how to explain what you might need to buy in French.

We have learned about Henri Rousseau. He was a French artist who used oil paint to create beautiful pictures with a jungle theme. We developed our skills and worked our way to creating our own Rousseau-inspired paintings.

We are now learning about Gary Hoang, a photomontage artist. We have looked at some of his artwork and have created a near-version of one of his photomontages.

We have been using maps to learn to read and use 6-figure grid references and we will use maps to compare the land between North and South America.

In PE we have started to further develop our gymnastics skills and create our own games in OAA (outdoor adventurous activities).

In music we have been learning about blues music.

In RE, we have been exploring the question ‘why do Christians believe that Jesus is the Messiah?’.

We have been developing our understanding about safety and the changing body.

In computing, we have been extending our understanding of online safety and we will programming music.