Welcome to Year Five Maple Class

This half term, we have lots of exciting opportunities planned, including our DT topic focusing on Cornish engineering.

Our learning in Year 5 will centre around the Geography topic of Cornwall vs London as we investigate the enquiry question, ‘Green, grey and brown: How does land use compare in Cornwall and London’.  While, in Science, we will be looking at ‘What happens as you get older’ throughout our focus on RSE.

In our Writing lessons we will be exploring three different writing units- the first two are fiction units-‘a detailed setting description’ and a ‘plot weave’ – and the third is a non-fiction persuasive advert linked to our Geography topic.  In VIPERS this half term, we will be reading Why the Whales Came by Michael Morpurgo, as well as exploring a range of Geography focused non-fiction texts.

In Maths we will continue our unit on Shape before moving on to position and direction, decimals and converting units.

In PE our main focus will be on Athletics, developing skills such as running (sprinting and endurance), jumping, and throwing with increasing control, coordination, and technique.

This half term, we will be completing our DT unit, which is creating moving vehicles.

Children will bring home their homework sheet at the start of this half term and can be found at the bottom of our website page.

Rowan will continue to have P.E on Tuesday and Friday each week, please ensure that your child’s kit is in school each day.

Thank you for your continued support.

Mr Hayne