Mrs Todd is the teacher in our Year Five class. Our PE day is Wednesday.

Class Saint

St Therese of Lisieux. Patron Saint of the Missions. Feast day is 1st October. 

Therese was known for being selfish, attention-seeking and spoiled. Therese wished to become a nun from the age of 3. When Therese was 13, she had what she called her 'Christmas Conversion.' In an instant, she stopped being selfish, became determined to help others and radiated joy. At the age of 15, Therese entered the monastery and achieved her dream. Therese is most known for her 'Little Way' - she spoke of doing small things with great love. Therese carried a string of beads and used them to count her good deeds. She believed it is not the greatness of what we do that matters, but the love with which we do them.  

St Therese, pray for us.

Spring Term Curriculum Overview

Maths

Multiply 4-digit numbers by 1 and 2-digit numbers. Multiply a 2-digit number by a 2-digit number. Multiply a 3-digit number by a 2-digit number. Divide a 4-digit number by a 1-digit number. Multiply fractions. Calculate fractions of quantities and amounts. Equivalent fractions and decimals. Thousandths. Order and compare decimals. Rounding decimals. Percentages as fractions and decimals. Perimeter and area. Line graphs, tables and timetables. 

English

This term, we will be studying Street Child. We will be learning about: figurative language, semi colons, character description, make inferences, relative clauses, parenthesis, non-chronological reports, adverbials of time, place and number, letter writing, newspaper reports, direct speech, persuasion, active and passive voice, subordinating and coordinating conjunctions, biographies. 

RE

Mission - Continuing Jesus' mission in diocese

Memorial Sacrifice - Eucharist as the living memorial of Christ's sacrifice 

Sacrifice - Lent; a time of aligning with the sacrifice made by Jesus

Geography

Y5 will be studying biomes with a focus on rainforests. Key learning includes:

- Know the 7 continents and locate on a map

- Lines of latitude and longitude and tropics

- Know the difference between weather and climate

- Climate zones, biomes and biodiversity

- Deforestation

- Climate change

Science

Compare and group materials, solutions and substances, filtering, sieving and evaporating, uses of everyday materials and reversible and irreversible changes

Gravity, air resistance, water resistance and friction and mechanisms, including levers, pulleys and gears

 

Design and Technology

Food - Celebrating culture and seasonality

PE

Gymnastics and Handball

Computing

Programming - selection in quizzes

Music

Sea Shanties

PSHE / RSE

Learn that pressure comes in different forms, and what some of those different forms are and there are strategies that they can adopt to resist pressure. Understand what consent and bodily autonomy means. Learn about how thoughts and feelings impact on actions. Learn to recognise that their increasing independence brings increased responsibility to keep themselves and others safe, how to use technology safely, that what we watch, hear, say or do can be good or bad for us and others and how to report and get help if they encounter inappropriate materials or messages. Learn what the term cyberbullying means and examples of it, what cyberbullying can feel like for the victim and how to get help if they experience cyberbullying. Learn to judge well what kind of physical contact is acceptable or unacceptable and how to respond, that abuse violates the rights of children and that there are different people we can trust for help. Learn about the effect that a range of substances including drugs, tobacco and alcohol can have on the body and how to make good choices about substances that would have an impact on their health. Consider how, as they get older, they may come under pressure when it comes to drugs, alcohol and tobacco. Learn that they are entitled to say “no." Learn that the recovery position can be used when a person is unconscious but breathing and DR ABC is a primary survey to find out how to treat life-threatening conditions in order of importance.