St John's C of E Primary - Nurturing Excellence

Falcon Class

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English

In Year 5 we are reading The Boy at the Back of the Class by Ojali Q. Rauf. We will be doing a range of writing including a biography and narrative writing.

Maths

This term in Maths we will be consolidating our learning with fractions and looking at the relationship between decimals and percentages with a range of fluency and problem solving. We will then move onto reviewing learning of measurements in angles and then consolidating learning of time.

Science

This half term’s science topic is Astronomy. Within this topic, astronomy looks at the laws of the stars and everything in the universe beyond the Earth’s atmosphere. The substantive concepts of this unit are motion, force, energy, matter and space. In this unit, the children will learn about the evolution of the universe, gravity, the solar system, lunar phases and about galaxies.

History

This term in our History unit we will be moving on to learn about The Industrial Revolution. This unit builds on chronologically from children’s knowledge of both the French Revolution and the Transatlantic Slave Trade. During the ‘Transatlantic Slave Trade’ unit, the children learned how Britain imported and exported goods at this time.

Geography

In Geography we will be looking at New Zealand. Within this unit the children will be learning about the physical and human aspect of this Geography which will cover the land usage, the climate, the biodiversity and the settlements.

Art

This half term in Art we will be looking at Printmaking. This includes making links with the History unit on The Industrial Revolution. They begin by looking at Hogarth’s series of prints Industry and Idleness and move onto understanding mass production to save money by looking at Warhol’s relief printing.

Music

For this term in music we will be focusing on composition, improvisation and performance in African-American spirituals.

This half term in Religious Education the children will be looking at The people of God. Within this, we will look at the connections between the different beliefs and practices of religions and worldviews studied so far.

PSHE

In PSHE this term we will be discussing changes in our bodies with the children continuing to develop understanding of their emotions as well as strategies to help them in managing them.

This half term, year 5 will be playing games and developing all skills included within this.