Welcome to Year 5
Our Curriculum
This term our English work will be based around the book Darwin’s Dragons and will be a mix of fiction and non fiction writing, including writing diary entries and biographies to name just a few. In Maths, we are continuing to develop written and mental calculation strategies and will further develop our knowledge of fractions. We will also be learning about decimals and percentages. In the first half term, our Science topic will see us exploring evolution and in the second we will be learning about light. Our DT topic focuses on designing and building a shelter which links with our English book, as we will be designing a shelter for Syms to survive on the Galapagos Islands. We will be further developing our painting skills in Art and for the first time will be painting on canvas. In Geography, we are honing our map reading skills and learning to read 6 figure grid references. Our RE topics will focus on Islam in the first half of the term and in the second will look at why Good Friday and Easter Day are important to Christians. In Computing, we will continue to learn about how to stay safe online and we will develop our coding skills using Vex-go robots ready for our competition at Nissan. In PE we are focusing on invasion games and dance.
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