Welcome to Year 5 – Ruby Class!
Mr Trude
Spring Term – Vikings and Anglo Saxons
English
In English, the children will be looking at the book Arthur and the Gold Rope' by Joe Todd-Stanton. This unit will use a sequence of lessons exploring fictional writing and end with the children writing their own myths. The children will learn how to identify the audience and purpose of their writing as well as developing and mastering the essential elements of writing such as accurate punctuation, use of tense and structure, whilst pushing the children to a greater depth level by developing their awareness of formality, vocabulary choice, and style. They will also learn to develop their own characters and setting to ensure they keep their writing interesting. Alongside this, our reading focus will Neil Gaiman's 'Odd and the Frost Giants', which follows the adventures of Odd after the passing of his Viking father.
Maths
Throughout the term, in Maths, we will be focusing on number work, multiplication and division, fractions and decimals and percentages, developing our skills in calculation. As well as learning more about measurement and completing the term with statistics.
History
This unit looks at the Anglo-Saxons and Vikings and their achievements from 410 CE to 1066 CE. The first lessons explore life in England after the fall of the Roman Empire and the reasons why the Anglo-Saxons travelled to England's shores and decided to settle. This moves on to finding out how England was ruled during the settlement of the Anglo-Saxons and how they kept control of the 7 different kingdoms across the land. It finishes with a look at who the Vikings were, why they carried out raids in England and how their arrival impacted the political and social hierarchy of the time.
Science
During this unit of work, children will learn about the different stages of the human life cycle. They will discuss a simple timeline first before going into more depth about what happens in the womb, during puberty and when you are older.
P.E.
This term, PE will be Tuesday and Wednesday. The focus this term will be gymnastic and athletics. The children will be learning body movements, floor exercises such as forward and backwards roll, arabesque and a cartwheel as well as developing their skills on a springboard.
Creative
In Art, the children will be encouraged to develop ideas more independently, pupils consider the purpose of drawings as they investigate how imagery was used in the 'Space race' that began in the 1950s. They combine collage and printmaking to create a piece in their own style. During DT, pupils will look at mechanical systems creating a functional four-page pop-up storybook design, using lever, sliders, layers, and spacers to create paper-based mechanisms. In the second half term, pupils will look at monitoring devices applying computing knowledge and understanding to program a Micro: bit animal monitoring device. Develop 3D CAD skills by learning how to navigate the Tinkercad interface and essential tools to combine multiple objects.
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