Lawford C of E Primary School
High quality learning and caring together in an encouraging Christian environment.
Year 5
Autumn Term 24 -25
Key Concepts - Identity, change, fairness, conflict, care and power.
Our enquiry question this term…
How can we save the Rainforests?
Not only are we exploring this through Geography but we are also using English, including our class text 'Journey to the River Sea', Science and Music as cross curricular links to deepen our investigation.
Art - native birds - working on contour drawings.
DT - constructing Rainforest shelters and musical instruments.
English - non-chronological reports based on our Rainforest topic.
French – Greet people, ask questions about family members and say what someone has and what someone is like.
Geography - looking at types of forests biomes, the Amazon River, deforestation and fair trade.
Maths - place value, addition and subtraction, multiplication and division & fractions.
Music - musical forests/ body percussion plus Christmas Concert.
PE - will be on a Thursday in Autumn term one (one lesson in the morning and one in the afternoon). Autumn term two, will be a Tuesday morning and Thursday afternoon. Throughout the Autumn term we will be covering squash, netball, core skills and dance.
PSHE/RSE- British Values, me and my relationships, valuing differences and RSE; mental health and keeping well.
RE (philosophy) - Is believing in God reasonable?
Science - living things and their habitats, life cycles and process of reproduction.
Home reading - we will be encouraging the children to read at 4 times per week at home.
Homework - this may link to work that has taken place in class and will serve as a source of revision or it may be project based and will link to an upcoming lesson.
Banham Zoo Trip – Class trip (Tuesday 15th October 2024)
Highlights of Autumn 2024.
Banham Zoo
Junior Ambassadors
Garrison Squash Visit
Roots to Food.
Year 5 - Summer Term 2024
Key Concepts - Identity, change, fairness, conflict, care and power.
Our topic this term is.. Ancient Greeks and Egypt.
How did the Ancient Greeks influence today’s society?
English - the children will read and discuss a range of texts including poetry, biographies and traditional myths.
Reading - our class reading text this term will be ‘Who let the Gods out?’ By Max Evans
Maths - decimals and percentages, perimeter and area, negative numbers, converting units and volume.
Science - looking at properties of materials and their everyday uses. Analysing changes of state and the reverse of these.
Humanities - understand Ancient Greece and the Egyptian way of life.
RE - looking at what difference the resurrection makes to Christians?
How do Hindu’s make sense of the world?
Computing - understand computer networks, create a range of programs and use technology safely.
French - prepare and practice simple conversations, understand and express simple opinions linked to holidays.
PE - will be on a Monday and Friday for the first half of the Summer term.
Year 5 - spring term 2024
Key Concepts - Identity, change, fairness, conflict, care and power.
Our topic this term is Space..
Is anyone out there?
We also have a history focus this term..
How can we discover what Ancient Egypt was like 5000 years ago?
English - we will be looking at a range of texts including science fiction, poetry and non-fiction. Linked to how the universe works we will plan, draft and edit explanation texts.
We will also be performing our own compositions and play scripts (focusing on the Easter story)
Maths - long multiplication, short division with remainders, multiplying fractions, rounding decimals and finding equivalent fractions, decimals and percentages.
RE - we will be looking at what we can learn about the meaning of life from the great philosophers.
Science - we will look at the Sun, Earth and Moon, looking at how the Earth rotates to describe day and night. We will investigate gravity, air resistance, water resistance and friction between moving objects.
Geography/History - explore the use of sources to discover what times were like during the Ancient Egyptian period. We will also be looking at the River Nile.
French - prepare and practice simple conversations. Understanding and expressing simple opinions.
Music - comparing music pieces including ‘Mars’ from Holst and ‘The Planets’ by the BBC National Orchestra of Wales.
Computing - design, input and test a complex set of instructions, write simple programs that follow a sequence of instructions.
Art - understand that when designers work with font and layout, it is called Typography! We will explore this and create our own.
PE - will be on a Monday and Tuesday for the first half of the Spring term. Monday will be football and Tuesday will be Bollywood dancing.
On 14th March, Year 5 went to the Royal Air Force Museum in London for a school workshop. We looked at Satellites and as a class were set a mission to create the best heat shields for our satellite and then to create a parachute to bring the satellite safely back down to Earth again. We also had some time to explore 🛰️
Year 5 - 2024/25
Autumn Term
Key Concepts - Identity, change, fairness, conflict, care and power.
Our enquiry question this term…
How can we save the Rainforests?
Not only are we exploring this through Geography but we are also using English, including our class text 'Journey to the River Sea', Science and Music as cross curricular links to deepen our investigation.
Class reading book - Journey to the river sea.
Art - native birds - working on contour drawings.
DT - constructing Rainforest shelters and musical instruments.
English - non-chronological reports based on our Rainforest topic.
French – Greet people, ask questions about family members and say what someone has and what someone is like.
Geography - looking at types of forests biomes, the Amazon River, deforestation and fair trade.
Maths - place value, addition and subtraction, multiplication and division & fractions.
Music - musical forests/ body percussion plus Christmas Concert.
PE - will be on a Thursday in Autumn term one (one lesson in the morning and one in the afternoon). Autumn term two, will be a Tuesday morning and Thursday afternoon. Throughout the Autumn term we will be covering squash, netball, core skills and dance.
PSHE/RSE- British Values, me and my relationships, valuing differences and RSE; mental health and keeping well.
RE (philosophy) - Is believing in God reasonable?
Science - living things and their habitats, life cycles and process of reproduction.
Home reading - we will be encouraging the children to read at 4 times per week at home.
Homework - this may link to work that has taken place in class and will serve as a source of revision or it may be project based and will link to an upcoming lesson.
Banham Zoo Trip – Class trip (Tuesday 15th October 2024)