Year 5
Term 1 summary:
What a busy first term we have had in Year 5! The children have made an excellent start to the new school year and we are all really proud of how well they have settled into the new routines in Y5.
Our overarching enquiry question for this first term was ‘Why are rainforests important to us?’ Through our Geography unit, we have learnt about what a tropical forest biome is and its defining characteristics as well as the physical and human geography of the Amazon Rainforest. Our English work has linked to our topic work as we wrote adventure narratives inspired by the book ‘The Explorer’ by Katherine Rundell where the characters find themselves stuck in the middle of the Amazon in trouble. Our non-fiction writing this term looked at writing a non-chronological report based on fictional rainforest creatures the children created.
In Maths this term, we have been recapping place value and looking at increasingly larger numbers. We have also looked at the formal methods for addition and subtraction and recapped the method for rounding numbers and decimals.
Across the term in Science, we have been focussing on Living Things and their Habitats. We started our learning journey by looking at the life cycles of different animal groups and compared these; we then moved onto flowering plants, which built on our knowledge from Y3, where we looked into the different parts of a flower and how these help with pollination and fertilisation.
In Meta, we have looked at how we learn and applied this to learning a new skill, which this year was juggling.
PE days
The children have one set PE lesson and another physical activity session each week. The children only need to wear PE kit for their set PE lesson. In Year 5, the children will take part in a swimming lesson each week for a number of weeks in this first Autumn term, which replaces their set PE lesson for those weeks. The first class swimming this term is Swindon class; therefore, children in Swindon class do not need to come into school on any day wearing their PE kit. They will need a swimming kit with them in school on a Thursday.
Y5 Class | Set PE Lesson Day | Physical Activity Day |
Bath Spa | Wednesday – PE kit needed | Friday |
Chippenham | Wednesday – PE kit needed | Friday |
Swindon | Thursday – Swimming | Friday |
Instagram Pages
We would love you to follow our learning journey in school on our class Instagram page. These are locked down, private pages that only members who have been accepted by the class teacher can see. When you request to follow the class page, please message the class teacher on Instagram to confirm which child you are a parent of in the class, as this is not always clear in the username/picture. Please only request to follow the classes that you have children in.
Bath Spa – bathspa_yr5_evenswindon2425
Chippenham – es_chippenham2425
Swindon – es_swindon