Welcome to Year Five Maple Class

This half term we will centre our learning around the theme of ‘Vikings; Blood thirsty monsters or a civilised culture?’. We will start the half term with science, where we will be looking at forces as we answer our inquiry question; ‘Why did the apple fall far from the tree?’

We have lots of exciting opportunities planned, including a visit to Falmouth Maritime Museum and our school residential to Manchester. The children will get to explore the museum and take part in a range of workshops to enhance their understanding of the Vikings. In our literacy lessons we will be reading the story ‘Raysha vs Aashman. Over the coming weeks, we will be learning, innovating and creating our very version of this story through characterising speech.

In maths we will be learning about decimals and percentages, perimeter and area and statistics. In PE our focus will be on invasion games, working on our hand eye co-ordination and teamwork skills through basketball. Towards the end of the half term, we will be completing our Art unit, which is creating Viking portraits through sketching.

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.

Maple 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