Year 5 – Curriculum T5&6

Year 5 –  Term 5 and 6 Resources

We are delighted to continue our French lessons with Mrs Cackett, our resident native French speaker. Over the course of the summer term, we will be exploring two new topics: Seasons and Exploring.  Seasons  During this topic, we will explore the months of the year; the 4 seasons; weather patterns; and seasonal poems.  Exploring  This

Our music lessons this year will follow the Sing Up sequential scheme of learning and for Term 5 and 6 we will explore three new topics.  Balinese Gamelan  This unit explores the music of Bali through two dynamic musical forms: gamelan beleganjur – a lively kind of percussion music originally performed during a battle – and

Following the GetSet4PE scheme of learning, our Physical Education (PE) lessons for term 5 and 6 will focus on athletics, cricket and rounders. Our PE lessons will be on Fridays; children can wear their PE kit into school on this day. Holmes class will also have Forest School on Wednesday’s this term. On their group

Over the course of term 5 and 6, we will continue to follow our Jigsaw PSHE scheme of learning. Jigsaw, the mindful approach to PSHE is a progressive and spiral scheme of learning. In planning the lessons, Jigsaw PSHE ensures that learning from previous years is revisited and extended, adding new concepts, knowledge and skills,

Our Religious Education lessons will continue to be based upon our “Love to Celebrate” projects. Basing the “Love to Celebrate” projects around festivals, gives a real-life context to the children’s learning and a structure to the projects. However, the celebration itself is only a small part of each “Love to Celebrate” project. Each set of

Following the Purple Mash scheme of learning, our two main computing topics, this term, will be 3D Modelling and Processing.  3D Modelling  In term 5, we will be focusing upon 3D Modelling. We will learn about:  How to use 2Design and Make  Exploring the effect of moving points when designing  Designing a 3D model to

During Term 5 and 6, we have 3 topics that we will be covering in our Art and D&T lessons. Art: Mixed Media  Our art topic for this term is “Mixed Media”. Throughout this topic, we will learn about paper crafts, papermaking and collage techniques including paper, fabric, mixed media and photo collage. They will

This term our topic is “Properties and Changes in Materials”. In this project, your child will revisit prior learning about the properties of materials. We will plan and carry out tests to determine the properties of a range of materials and use our results to suggest suitable materials for different purposes. We will learn about

Following the White Rose Maths scheme, Holmes class will cover six main blocks of learning over the course of the summer term: shape; position and direction; decimals; negative numbers; converting units; and volume. As part of the White Rose Maths scheme, each block is broken down into a series of small learning steps. Combined, these