Year 5 Da Vinci
Class teacher: Mrs Chaplin
STEAM |
This term our STEAM focus is Science, and we will be answering the question ‘Can I develop an understanding of the living world around me?’ Through our project, the children will design and bake their own cakes, adapting a basic recipe to use ingredients of their choice. Through this term’s STEAM project, we will be covering the disciplines of Science, DT, Geography and History. Throughout our learning journey we will:
To help with our STEAM project, we would like to ask for a voluntary contribution of £2 per child to help us with funding. Your donations will be used to purchase materials for the investigations that the children will conduct. |
Maths |
We will begin this term by looking at multiplying whole numbers and fractions. This will involve thinking about:
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Writing |
We will begin this term begin by writing first person narratives inspired by famous myths (not Ancient Greek). We will learn to:
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Computing |
This term in Computing, we will be continuing to develop the skills of programming through selection in quizzes. In this unit, the children will develop their knowledge of selection by revisiting how conditions can be used in programs and then learning how the If… Then… Else structure which can be used to select different outcomes depending on whether a condition is true or false. We will represent this understanding in algorithms and then by constructing programs using the Scratch programming environment. The children will then use their knowledge of writing programs and using selection to control outcomes to design a quiz in response to a given task and implement it as a program. |
HRE (Health and Relationships Education) |
In HRE this term, the children will learn:
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Music |
This term, we will be continuing to work with Mr Probert. Our Brass Band is sounding amazing, and he has been so impressed with the progress that the children have made this year. Throughout this half term we will be building our repertoire of pieces in preparation for the concert next term. We will also be learning to play in harmony as a band. |
PE |
This term in PE, we will be learning to play the game of cricket. We will begin by working on our throwing and catching skills in the context of this game. We will then think about the skills of batting and fielding, thinking about our positions and the way we work as a team. |
MFL - French |
This term we will learn vocabulary and sentences related to ‘Our School’. The children will learn to:
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RE |
Across the school this term, we will be exploring the big question “Is there a higher power?” in our RE assemblies. In our RE lessons in class, we will learn to:
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Our PE days this term: Monday and Friday