Year 5

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Term period	Curriculum overview
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Spring	Spring year group curriculum (PDF)
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Curriculum scrapbook

Spring 1

Week 1-2

alternative of the image - See caption below — In Geography this half term, we have been learning about Extreme Earth.

alternative of the image - See caption below — We have learned about different natural disasters (such as, hurricanes, tsunamis, volcanoes, and earthquakes) and learned how/why they happen.

alternative of the image - See caption below — We all chose different natural disasters to act out for the rest of the class to guess! Can you guess what we have acted out here?

alternative of the image - See caption below — We had the opportunity to work with Paralympian Aaron Phipps! We learned about how his amputee changed his life forever! He told us about his journey to become a Gold Medal winning Paralympic Champion!

alternative of the image - See caption below — We engaged in all sorts of different exciting activities and got to ask him lots of questions! We left feeling very inspired to reach our goals!

alternative of the image - See caption below — We applied everything we have learned and created an action plan for the school in the event of a flood! We thought carefully about what would happen, what precautions we should take, what risks there are and what would be the impact. We then invited the Mr Gamblin from the Site Team to listen to our action plans. He was very impressed and selected a winning team!

Week 3-4

alternative of the image - See caption below — In Art, we learnt all about oil pastels and were inspired by the artist Joseph Turner. We loved his style when creating landscapes and could really see how we could apply it to our work. We then learnt about how to use oil pastels in a way that created our desired effect. The children were inspired when they learnt how many ways you can use oil pastels.

alternative of the image - See caption below — Our outcome was to create volcano art that linked to our topic of Extreme Earth. We thought and studied hard about how we could apply our new skills, mixed with the art of Joseph Turner, and turn it into volcano art.

alternative of the image - See caption below — We are so proud of how hard the children worked and how diligently they completed their job.

alternative of the image - See caption below — In Child Led Collective Worship, the children told and presented the a story that incorporates the prophecy of Joel, Joel 2:28-32. They held their own worship, said prayers together and asked everyone to come together to sing. It is a challenge to do this but the children always do so well.

Week 5-6

alternative of the image - See caption below — In Science we learned all about earthquakes. We investigated the safest place to build houses if there was an earthquake. We then inputted our data to Microsoft Excel.

alternative of the image - See caption below — Children then turned the raw data into a scatter graph and added a trend line! To truly understand epicentres some children when outside to discuss where the epicentre would have the biggest impact.

alternative of the image - See caption below — After we learned about where the safest place to build was, we looked at what makes a building safe in an earthquake.

alternative of the image - See caption below — Children conducted an experiment by making a building using either a Tunned Mass Damper or shock absorbers in the base.

alternative of the image - See caption below — To see which design was best for protecting a building and saving the people inside.

alternative of the image - See caption below — Although we have not yet started our space topic, this opportunity was too good to miss. The children took part in an interactive assembly and Q&A session with real life astronaut Helen Sharman. She answered questions from what zero gravity feels like to how they went to the toilet.

Spring 2

Week 1-2

alternative of the image - See caption below — We had a surprise visit on our first day back at school after half term! We were visited by the Greek god Poseidon! He came to tell us all about the different Greek gods and all about who he was. We learned lots about what roles each god had and where they lived.

alternative of the image - See caption below — We got the opportunity to ask Poseidon lots of questions about Ancient Greece! Some say he looks like Mr Laycock…

alternative of the image - See caption below — We spent our afternoon taking part in different activities with Maz Evans, author of Who Let The Gods Out!

alternative of the image - See caption below — We particularly enjoy how funny Maz Evans’ books are! We focused on thinking about the perspective/point of view in our own creative writing in the style of Maz Evans.

alternative of the image - See caption below — Alongside creating our own stories, we wrote diary entries, created our own book reviews and got the chance to do some art work.

alternative of the image - See caption below — As part of world book day, we had the opportunity to visit Year 4 and share books with them. We got the chance to talk to different children about their favourite books and we got the chance to sit and read together.

alternative of the image - See caption below — We then participated in a workshop with author Tom Palmer who has written 57 books mainly based on the second world war.

Week 3-4

alternative of the image - See caption below — In this unit of science, we learnt all about the states of matter. To help us understand changes we can make to these matters, we became particles! We acted out the particle organisation of solids, liquids and gases and got practical with our learning.

alternative of the image - See caption below — We learnt about chemical reactions and saw our own experiment together. We understood how two things can mix and react together! We saw this by mixing together baking soda and vinegar and catching the gas released in a balloon. The children were amazed at how this worked and were inspired to conduct their own experiments at home.

alternative of the image - See caption below — Following on from this, the children learnt about how some reactions can be reversible and how some can be irreversible. We were very interested to understand how our baking soda and vinegar experiment could not be reversed and why!

alternative of the image - See caption below — We even took it bigger and experimented further outside. It was wonderful to see how inspired our children have been by our science topics.

Week 5-6

alternative of the image - See caption below — During our DT lessons this week, children designed and build chariots. The design brief given to the children was to make a model chariot to persuade people to use chariots instead of cars. Here children were examining and evaluating different designs and joining techniques they could use in their design.

alternative of the image - See caption below — Children built their chariots using a choice to materials and joining techniques.

alternative of the image - See caption below — Children had to make their own decisions about the design. For example, they had to decide if their axle or wheels would be fixed.

alternative of the image - See caption below — In year 5, children learned a song, which they performed in front of the rest of the school, dedicated to people living in Syria and Turkey following the Earthquake. The children worked incredibly hard on this performance and showed lots of courage to perform it in front of such a large audience.

Summer 1

Week 1-2

alternative of the image - See caption below — To begin our topic of space Year 5 were able to visit the Wonder Dome, where they took a trip into space and learnt about our Solar System.

alternative of the image - See caption below — Later that day, the children discussed the risks of space travel. They then discussed the importance of having safe space crafts. In small groups, the children created ‘Eggnauts’ to see if they could make rockets safe enough to keep the ‘Eggnauts’ intact.

alternative of the image - See caption below — In Science, we learnt about how the different planets orbit around the Sun. We researched how long it took each planet to rotate around the Sun and then we acted it out! We drew our lines of orbit around ‘The Sun’ and then travelled different speeds to show the length of time the planets rotate around the Sun.

alternative of the image - See caption below — We then extended our learning by exploring how the Moon orbits the Earth. In class, we made models of the Earth and the Moon to demonstrate how the Moon would orbit the Earth.

Week 3-4

alternative of the image - See caption below — We used scratch to code a game where we sent a rocket to space. The children learnt about how they could use different functions on Scratch to create a score that increases, add in a second level when the score increases and then show a winning message!

alternative of the image - See caption below — The children took on the challenge of computing well and were open to debugging independently when things did not go according to plan.

alternative of the image - See caption below — Some children even uplevelled and took their skills further to make the game harder for those playing.

alternative of the image - See caption below — We learnt about Umma in Islam and how Islam shows a sense of community. We explored our own understanding of community and how it can feel if you are excluded from the community.

alternative of the image - See caption below — This even led to a discussion about how a sense of community changed during the Covid-19 pandemic! The children saw how important Umma is to Islam and how being a part of their religion shows Umma.

Week 5-6

alternative of the image - See caption below — Our topic this half term was space. While we looked at space, we always kept one question in mind. Should we move planet or stay on Earth and try to save it? In D.T. we gave the children a chance to look at one of the many complications with moving planet. How do you make a shelter airtight?

alternative of the image - See caption below — To start with children looked at and evaluated different shelters – some were ideas of what shelters on Mars could look like, others were houses on Earth and one was even a wooden den make by someone in a forest. The children then looked at the properties of the different materials they could use before finally building their shelters.

alternative of the image - See caption below — When the children build their shelters, they had to constantly evaluate and develop their shelters. When their shelters were finally done, they were tested. A Lego man placed inside and they shelter was blown with a hair dryer. If the Lego man fell over, their shelter was not airtight.