Year 5

Term 4 summary

What another busy term we have had in Year 5! Our enquiry question for the term was What did the Greeks do for us? Over the term, we enjoyed finishing reading Who Let the Gods Out by Maz Evans and we started reading our new class novel, High Rise Mystery by Sharna Jackson. In English, we used a film clip called One Small Step, which linked to our space learning from last term, to write an adventure narrative and we used our scientific knowledge linked to space to write explanation texts.

In History this term, we have been learning all about the Greeks. In our final lesson, we researched information on how the Greeks impacted on the Western, modern world and presented this information through posters and fact files.

In Art, we looked at architecture and learnt about two famous architects – Friedensreich Hundertwasser and Zaha Hadid – as well as designing our own monument for an Ancient Greek person or god.

During the term, we have had two dress up days. The first one – Red Nose Day and the second for World Book Day where we were allowed to come to school in our pyjamas and we spent some time during the day building reading dens.  This term also saw us celebrate Science week where we were visited by some female engineers and spent an afternoon visiting the three Y5 classes where we carried out a different scientific experiment in each class.

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 Friday.

Y5 Class	Set PE Lesson Day	Physical Activity Day
Bath Spa	Tuesday – PE kit needed	Friday
Chippenham	Tuesday – PE kit needed	Thursday
Swindon	Friday – Swimming	Thursday

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 – evenswindon_bathspa_2324
Chippenham – evenswindon_chippenham2324
Swindon – swindon_evenswindon

Meet the Year 5 team