Science: As we begin the year, the children will be experimenting and exploring different forces around them. They will begin to think like scientists and work scientifically to help gain results and understand the data presented to them. We will continue our school’s push to work practically to give the children a hands-on approach to science.

Computing: We will begin our year with understanding how to keep safe online. We will have a focus on what should and should not be shared online and how the digital content we share can be used online. We will also develop our coding skills by creating simulations on Purple Mash.

Jigsaw: As we star Year 5 we will look forward to the year ahead and we can set ourselves goals and targets to help us achieve. We will understand how to be good citizens of the world and think carefully about rewards and consequences of actions.

Art: Our Art topic this half term will be typography. The children will be exploring how to use different mediums to showcase font types and how they can be effective as an art form.

Music: Our music this half term will be centred around the Ukulele (a 4 stringed instrument). The children will learn how to play a variety of chords and develop their confidence in progressing from one chord to another.

History: The Vikings will be the focus of our first half term in Year 5. We will be learning about the significance of the Viking invasion of Britain and how it shaped the future of the country. We will think carefully about the chronology of events and who came before and after the Vikings.

RE: Our year begins with developing our existing knowledge of Christianity. We will be learning about the importance of the Gospels to Christians and how they celebrate it being Good News.

PE: The children will be continuing to develop skills they have learnt in previous years as we begin the year. They will have a focus on team games and use sporting events as the themes for their PE lessons. Some children in Year 5 will also be continuing to develop their swimming skills once a week also.

Reading: We begin this year with the classic novel Charlotte’s Web. In this story, the children are introduced to a small pig with a big heart who must work with his Spider friend, Charlotte, to survive on a farm. The children will discuss the text and use inference, retrieval and prediction skills to show their knowledge of the story and characters.

Writing: Over the course of the first half term, we will be learning about different text types. We will begin with looking at diary writing and using our reading lessons to support us in writing in the role of one of the characters from Charlotte’s Web.

Spellings: Spellings play a vital part to our writing, and we will be starting the year with a focus on suffixes and contractions. The children will be focusing on how we use -ly, -ing suffixes to change the meaning of the words and using contractions effectively to engage the reader