Year 5
Academic year 2023/2024
Spring 2
homework spelling overview spring 2
Dance-a-thon
Year 5 had a fantastic afternoon taking part in a dance-a-thon raising money for CAFOD through sponsorship.
Dance Festival
Year 5 attending a dance festival to showcase all our their hard work and creative. In PE lessons, the children choreographed their own routines based off the hand jive.
Stations of the Cross
As part of our RE lessons year 5 visited church to look at the stations of the cross. We learnt about what happened to Jesus at each of the stations. We then chose a station that we felt connected to and looked at the messages and how it links to our beliefs.
World Book Day
For world book day, year 5 enjoyed dressing up as their favourite character from a book. We completed guess the character riddles as well as book quizzes. We also created our own character for a new book. We created a hero or a villain, ensuring they had a good backstory to make the characters more interesting. 
Spring 1
homework spelling overview spring 1
RE
As part of our RE topic of ‘The Local Church’, we looked at the different denominations of Christianity. We visited St Cuthbert’s Church in Peterlee, which is part of the Church of England and Reverend Elaine spoke to us about the similarities between the denominations. We then learnt about Ecumenism and ways we can promote unity within Christianity.
DT
During the term, year 5 completed their food and nutrition topic where they made a pretzel. Over the weeks, we tasted different types of bread from around the world, explored different bread recipes, designed our pretzel and then practised the technique of kneading. At the end of the topic, we followed a recipe and made our final product.
Science
Our science topic was called ‘Materials’ and we looked at the different properties of materials and whether these materials had reversable or irreversible changes.
Autumn 2
We visited church to re-enact a wedding. We learnt about the steps and symbols involved in the Sacrament of Marriage.
Autumn 1
Year 5 Autumn 1 – Spelling Homework
Science
This half term the children have enjoyed learning about our solar system. They have been ordering and naming planets. The children looked at how the planets orbit the sun and how the moon orbits the Earth. Year 5 explored the phases of the moon and created their own model using Oreo biscuits.
Dog’s Trust
This week we had a visit form Dogs Trust. We had the opportunity to learn about Dog Trust and what they do. Our lesson focused on ‘be dog smart’. We learnt when it is best to leave dogs alone and give them space. We learnt safe and kind ways to show dogs that we care about them. We also learnt how to be a role model and promote safe behaviour around dogs to younger children.
Academic year 22-23
Educational Visit to Durham’s Oriental museum.
As part of their history topic ‘Early Islamic Civilization’, year 5 visited the oriental museum in Durham. The children enjoyed taking part in a range of workshops including, drama, designing geometric tiles and practising Arabic writing. The children also enjoyed exploring the artefact within the museum collection.
Please find below this term’s homework and overviews
Summer 2 number sense
Summer 2 spellings
Poetry
The children explored using a range of features (including similes, rhyme and metaphors) to write entertaining poetry about aspirations. Then some children practiced and performed their creations for the class.
Polar bear Class liturgical prayer- May
The children planned, prepared and led our class liturgical prayer. They were prayerful and reflective whilst listening to the gospel and it’s meaning.
Please find below this term’s homework and overviews
Spelling – Summer 1
Numbersense – Summer 1
Sundas Tigers Class Liturgy
This week the children have been working hard and planning their own liturgy for their parents. The focus was ‘The Parable of the Wise and Foolish Builders.’ The children discussed Jesus’ love and how if we turn to Jesus difficult times will be easier. We also wrote our names on a block and made a wall. This symbolises the support we give each other in difficult times.
Author Visit – Tony Bradman
Please find below this term’s homework and overviews
Number sense – Spring 2
Spelling Spring 2
Design Technology – Design and Make a Fairground ride
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History
The children have spent time reflecting on their knowledge of the Anglo-Saxons. As part of this, the children enjoyed watching a livestream from the Jorvik Viking Centre in York, which looked at the different artefacts and highlighted what it told us about Anglo-Saxon life.
Science- Working Scientifically
In their most recent science topic- animals and humans- the children have been exploring how we grow from a baby through to old age. As part of this, they measured the growth of a child and recorded the length of a forearm from children in nursery up to year 5. The children continued their learning by displaying this data in a bar chart. They identified a bar chart as the most appropriate, as the data collected was discrete.
The Anglo-Saxons
In history we have been looking at the Anglo-Saxons and how Britain changed during this period of time. As part of their writing cycle on Non-Chronological reports, the children wrote a hot task about Anglo-Saxon life. Once edited, the children rewrote this and added pictures linked to this.
Decider Skills
Over the past few weeks, the children in year 5 have been working with the decider skills where they have been looking at their different emotions and what strategies they can use to control these emotions. The new skills include; stop, it will pass right now, name the emotion, opposite action, self care and fact or opinion. The children often refer to their emotions as a fizz and use the skills to stop the fizz from erupting.
Please find below this term’s homework and overviews
Year 5 number sense- Spring 1
Year 5 Spring 1 Spelling
Science – Foetal development.
In science, year 5 have been learning about animal and human growth. This began with understanding gestation periods. In this week’s lesson, the children learnt about the prenatal growth of a human foetus comparing its growth to a variety of fruit and vegetables.
Cube Numbers
As part of their multiplication and division topic, year 5 have been looking at cube numbers. The children started the lesson by making their own cubes with unifix blocks. This allowed the children to recognise what a cube number was visually.
Thermal Insulators
As part of our new science topic about materials, the children have explored thermal insulators. During their working scientifically strand, the children investigated the most effective insulator for an ice cube. The children concluded that kitchen towels were the most effective insulator.
Please find below this term’s homework overviews
Year 5 Number sense – Autumn 2
Year 5 Autumn 2 Spelling
Phases of the Moon
As part of our learning about Earth and Space, Year 5 explored the phases of the moon. The children enjoyed creating their own model of the phases of the moon using oreo biscuits.
Visit from Author – Martin Scott
Published author Martin Scott visited school and read his book “The Stuttering Coach” to some of the year 5 pupils. The pupils were excited to ask questions about his profession as both an author, and a football coach and were impressed to hear how he overcame obstacles to educate and inspire the young people he worked with.
MacMillan Coffee morning and cake sale – Profit and Loss.
As part of our Personal development lesson, we planned to make flapjacks to contribute to the fundraising event and to develop our money sense skills. We focused on profit and loss; learning about how businesses must consider overhead costs,
when trying to make a profit. We calculated how much the ingredients would cost and decided on a price for our flap jacks to ensure we would make a profit for charity. We then baked the flap jacks and sold them at the MacMillan coffee morning and cakes sale.
Our Solar System
Over the past few weeks, year 5 have been learning about our solar system. This has included naming and ordering the planets. We also took to the playground (in the rain) to model how each of the planets orbits the sun.
