This year you are lucky enough to have 2 different teachers within your class.

Mrs Rowlands - Class Teacher

Mrs Warren - Teaching Assisstant

PE will take place every Tuesday and Friday afternoon, when you will complete some Yoga and Health Related Fitness. 

For PE sessions please bring the following:

- Black shorts, legins or jogging bottoms

- White t-shirt or polo shirt

- Black pumps or trainers

It is usually best to leave your child's PE kit in school for the half-term so that it is always available to use.

It is important that your child brings their reading book into school each day as the days on which they will be able to read with an adult may change from time to time. It is also crucial that you listen to your child read each evening and ensure that you sign their reading record highlighting what they have read and how they performed.

Within this class reading records will be checked and books changed on a Friday.

Homework will be set on a Tuesday through our online learning platform, SeeSaw. A link for which is placed below:

https://app.seesaw.me/#/login

All homework should be completed by the following Monday and will be checked by your teacher on this day. Please make sure that if you are having difficulties with the homework, that you contact your class teacher with plenty of time so that they can assist your child in its completion. In addition, the school also run a homework club which can really help support those children that struggle completing their tasks independently.

Summer One- Year Five

As Scientists we will:

• compare the contributions of Ptolemy, Alhazen and Copernicus to models of the Solar system
• describe the movement and shapes of the celestial bodies in space
• understand the Earth in relation to the sun and the moon
• know that the Earth orbits the sun once a year
• know the moons movement in relation to the Earth
• explain the causes of day and night and the seasons
• understand how the appearance of the moon changes
• devise a sundial to tell the time
• understand the impact did Nicholas Copernicus, Isaac Newton, Peggy Whitson and Eileen Collins have on our scientific understanding
• learn about scientists who were influential to our understanding of space

As Design Technicians we will answering the questions:

• How are pillars and beams used to strengthen bridges?
• How are trusses used to strengthen bridges?
• How are arches used to strengthen bridges?
• Why do we build prototypes to help design and make products?
• How can the computer help develop our design?
• Can we build a bridge following our prototype?

As Musicians we will be able to:

• Identify how different styles of music contribute to the feel of a film.
• Participate in discussions, sharing their views and justifying their answers.
• Use the terms ‘major’ and ‘minor’.
• Identify different instruments to describe how music evokes different emotions.
• Identify pitch, tempo and dynamics, and use these to explain and justify their answers.
• Give reasonable and thought-out suggestions for what different graphic scores represent.
• Use their body, voice and instruments to create sounds to represent a given theme.
• Create a musical score to represent a composition.
• Interpret their graphic score and performing their composition appropriately with their group.
• Create sounds that relate to the scene of a film.

As learners of RE we will be exploring the Big Question:

• What matters most to Humanists and Christians?

We will answer the questions:

• Why do people do good and bad things?
• What is a humanist? What codes for living do humanists have?
• Where do Christian people gather their code of living from?
• How do we create peace?
• What does honesty look like in every-day life?
• How do Christians and Humanists know how to act? What do they base their decisions on?

As learners of PSHE we will be learning about:

• Valuing Difference
• Feelings and Emotions
• Healthy Relationships
• Online Safety