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Loving and serving together in the light of God's love

Year 5: St Margaret Clitherow

Welcome to Year 5!

Class teacher: Mr Gooch & Mrs Kitterick

Learning support: Mrs Batters

We are working hard to become a paperless school so please check regularly for updates.

Useful information:

• Homework is provided each Friday to be completed and returned by the following Friday.
• Weekly spellings are provided each Friday, applied in written tasks and tested on the following Friday. 
• P.E. kits need to be in school at all times to provide the correct uniform for P.E./Sport Coaches/Extra Curricular Activities.
• Please ensure your child has a labelled water bottle each day in school.
• Electronic books are provided for each child and accessible through the following link using your child's personal login details: https://ops.collinsopenpage.com/sso/login?service=https%3A//ebooks.collinsopenpage.com/wr/index.html&eulogin=true
• We welcome any news or celebrations of things happening in your child's life at home - please do share anything with us that we can celebrate in class.

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Curriculum (Spring 2)

English

This term, our class text is The Great Kapok Tree by Lynne Cherry, linking to our geographical work. We will be using this text as inspiration for poetry, before moving on to persuasive writing and balanced arguments, thinking about global issues caused by deforestation in the rainforests, inspired by our text. We will be working on use of adverbial devices to improve cohesion and effective sentence openers and connectives as well as continuing to develop punctuation skills.

In reading we are developing the full range of comprehension skills, ensuring we are using evidence from the text to answer questions effectively, learning to skim and scan to find evidence within the text quickly.

Maths

This term we are continuing our work on fractions, decimals and percentages, looking at thousandths before converting between these. We then move on to calculating perimeter and area. 

Science

This term we are studying biology, learning about adaptation and evolution. We will look at plant, animal and human adaptation and evolution and the theories of Charles Darwin.

Geography

We are learning about world biomes, with a focus on the rainforest, temperate deciduous forests and desert biomes. We will learn about how climate zones and geographical location influences different biomes, as well as carrying out a geographical field trip to a local woodland to carry out hands on learning and investigation of our local biome.

R.E

This term we are focusing on Jesus the Messiah, using the bible to explore how Jesus is both God and human and finding biblical evidence for this. We will also consider the importance of Lent before exploring the Easter story, making links to the New Covenant and how the Resurrection of Jesus is important to our lives today.

PSHCE

We are thinking about ways to keep ourselves healthy, both in mind and body and why this is important to help us develop and be happy.

DT

We are using electrical systems to design and create our own doodle bugs.

P.E

This term we have a sports coach in on Wednesdays for team games and in our other PE lesson we will be focusing on invasion games.

Computing

We are continuing our work on exploring and using databases to sort data and answer questions effectively.