Teachers: Mr Wren and Miss Roe

Teaching Assistants: Mrs Britton, Mr Easterbrook and Mrs Tucker

Higher Level Teaching Assistant: Mrs Holten

Welcome to Year 5

Our topics this autumn:

Rivers- Journey of a droplet from source to mouth

Villainous Vikings

The first half term, we will focus much of our learning on finding out what a river is. With an exciting opportunity to do some fieldwork, we will be finding out how rivers can change along their course and their impact on the environment around them.

The second half term, will be focused on our enquiry; what did the Vikings want and how did Alfred help to stop them getting it? These fierce warriors sailed the oceans before invading and settling on the British Isles.

Literacy – to link to our topics on rivers and Vikings, we will be creating writing based on the non-fiction text Animalium by Jenny Broom and Viking Boy by Tony Bradman

Maths – Year 4 recap, place value (rounding, roman numerals, comparing, negative numbers and ordering numbers), addition and subtraction and statistics

Science – living things and their habitats and forces

P.E. – gymnastics and netball sessions

Geography – what is a River?

History – what did the Vikings want and how did Alfred help to stop them getting it?

R.E. – Christianity

Art – creating some batik art depicting their river creature created in literacy

Other subjects covered include: French, computing, PSHE and music.

Our P.E. days are on Monday (outdoor) and Tuesday (indoor).

Homework is given out on Thursday and will need to be returned by the following Tuesday.

Spelling activities will be sent out on a Thursday alongside the weekly homework. 

Curriculum