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Year 5 - Curriculum

Dear Parents,

Below you will find the curriculum your child will be covering this Autumn term (2024).  Not all subjects are taught each term but are covered throughout the year.

Please use this planner for discussion and research with your child.

 

Autumn Term

RE

  • Creation - This unit outlines key beliefs about the creation of human beings and the creation of the world. It introduces the children to the story of creation as a way of explaining that God is the creator, rather than a re-telling of the order of the created world.
  • Miracles and the sacrament of the sick - In this unit children learn about some of the miracles of Jesus and the work of the Church to heal and care for the sick in Christ’s name.
  • Baptism - This unit explores the role of John the Baptist in Jesus’ Baptism and provides an opportunity for an in-depth study of the signs, symbols and prayers associated with it.

Literacy

Class book: Kensuke’s Kingdom

  • Stories by significant authors – Roald Dahl. Children will learn to plan, draft and edit effective stories, with an especial focus on grammatical accuracy as they begin working towards the Year 6 SATs.
  • Poetic Style - Pupils will experiment with poetic style such as dialect poetry by Benjamin Zephaniah.
  • Aesop’s Fables - Children will analyse Aesop’s fables and plan to create their own didactic tales.
  • Instructions - Pupils will develop their use of vocabulary and understanding of written and planning structures in order to produce effective instruction texts.
  • Classic/narrative poems – Highway Man, Choral/Performance, pupils will memorise and perform work from important poets adapting their ideas in their own writing

Numeracy

  • Number: Place Value
    Read, write, order and compare numbers to at least 1,000,000 and determine the value of each digit.
    Round any number up to 1,000,000 to the nearest 10, 100, 1000, 10000 and 100000
    Read Roman numerals to 1,000 (M) and recognise years written in Roman numerals.
  • Number: Addition and Subtraction
    Add and subtract whole numbers with more than 4 digits, including using formal written methods (columnar addition and subtraction)
    Use rounding to check answers to calculations and determine, in the context of a problem, levels of accuracy. Solve addition and subtraction multi-step problems in contexts deciding which operations and methods to use and why.
  • Number: Multiplication and Division
    Divide numbers up to 4 digits by a one digit number using the formal written method of short division and interpret remainders appropriately for the context.
    Identify multiples and factors, including finding all factor pairs of a number, and common factors of two numbers.
    Recognise and use square numbers and cube numbers and the notation for squared (2) and cubed (3)
    Solve problems involving multiplication and division including using their knowledge of factors and multiples, squares and cubes.

 

 

Science

  • The Human body - Children will compare and contrast the different gestational periods of animals, including humans and will understand that human infants need care and attention for many years before they are independent. They will consider growth stages and the features of these for animals and humans. Recognising that all living things have growth stages. Children will learn about changes to the human body in old age and the importance of a healthy lifestyle at all ages.

  • Materials - In this unit children will revisit the concept of conductivity. They will look at the most suitable material for thermal conductivity and will analyse different materials and their properties. After revisiting this knowledge, children will move on to studying solubility; which materials are soluble and what it means to be soluble. This knowledge and understanding will form a foundation of understanding of chemistry. Children will then take their science learning on further to look at separating mixtures through sieving, filtering and evaporating. They will work scientifically to separate a mixture using a range of tools and methods. They will learn about the scientist Jabir ibn Hayyan, who is thought to have invented a crucial tool for the distillation process; the alembic still. Reversible and irreversible changes will be studied as children deepen their understanding of dissolving, mixing and changing state.

PE

  • Netball
    learning different types of passing
    key movements in netball: pivot, landing on one foot
    positions in the game

  • Dance
    movements, space, working in a team. Linking to music: rhythm, tempo, pace, pitch

Thematic Curriculum

(includes: History, Geography, ICT, Music, Art, D+T and PSHE)

History

  • The British Empire
  • The French Revolution

Art

  • Style in Art - drawing, painting and sculpture with a range of materials (e.g. pencil, charcoal, paint, clay)
  • Abstract
  • Islamic Architecture

Geography

  • Spatial sense

  • Mountains of the world

ICT

  • Digital literacy and computing – focus on safety online

RHE

  • Being in my world – goals for year 5
  • Dreams and goals, celebrating differences – when I grow up, jobs, different cultures, racism, rumours (links in with ICT, RE)

 

 Homework

Homework is given out on a Friday and should be handed in on Friday. Homework includes: maths- relating to topics in class and grammar/ comprehension. 

 Spellings

Spellings are given out on a Friday and tested on a Friday.

 

 

Year 5 Class Blog

23rd Mar

Welcome to Year 5 Twitter takeover. We hope you enjoy

We loved celebrating St Joseph’s day on Monday. Mass as a school, all day breakfast, own clothes...and circus skills to showcase our talents!

 

 

We have been learning how to be play leaders for the school. A great responsibility being positive play role models that we love!

 

We love reading and got to explore the book fair today. Come and take a peek as it’s here for the next week! 📚

 

We have to admit, this was a couple of weeks ago BUT we loved playing in the snow so wanted to share!!

 

We love our learning, but we also love working together. We always like to learn and help each other to achieve our goals! #teamyear5 😊

We hope you enjoyed our Twitter takeover! See you soon

 

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26th Jan

Welcome to Y5 Twitter takeover. We hope you enjoy a glimpse into our last few days in school!

We loved being creative with our maths work, who says you can’t mix art with maths! 📊✏️

 

We joined with all of our friends today for a special assembly hosted by the @RSPCA_official. They discussed the importance of litter picking and our responsibility to keep God’s earth tidy and protect wildlife danger.Thanks to our children in our eco team for organising 🦔🦢🦩🌿

 

We loved our WOW active sessions this week. Great to keep fit and we can check our results online and try and improve each week. It was great to support the younger children too with their counting, good practice for our play leading role that we have been trained on 🏃🏽‍♂️🏃🏽‍♀️

 

We absolutely love our computing sessions and animation club in Y5. Thanks to Mr Y for getting the equipment and for giving us the chance to become film makers. Oscars next!

 

Hope you enjoyed our Twitter takeover. See you soon! 😀

 

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17th Nov

Welcome to year 5 ‘Twitter takeover’, we hope you enjoy a sneak leak into our classroom 😊 

This a special week in school, celebrating anti-bullying week. At St Joseph’s we say NO to bullying. We have enjoyed assemblies and PSHE lessons looking at how we can reach out if we are ever worried. We enjoyed wearing our odd socks too!

 

We are loving our poetry topic in English, celebrating local poets and also writing our own poems and performing them ✒️📚

 

We are enjoying our music sessions each week. Children from @STACSBirmingham come each week and we are playing pieces exploring different percussion instruments 🥁

 

We hope you enjoyed a snapshot into our classroom. See you soon! ❤️

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Welcome to Year 5 ‘Thursday Twitter’ take over. We hope you enjoy having a sneaky look inside our class today

We enjoyed learning about Roald Dahl and his writing styles, preparing us to create our own ‘marvellous medicine’ potions! We even got a chance to make the potions and bring our writing to life!

We have been learning about our special class saint this year, St Josephine of Bakhita. She is an inspiration for the strength she showed through the challenges she faced in childhood. We pray that she guides us this year in Y5. We enjoyed creating artwork in dedication to her

Yes it may be September but why not think ahead to Christmas! We are busy being creative with our Christmas card designs that will go off to the printers this week if our families would like to order them ready for December. Hope you enjoy the finished card!

In memory of Queen Elizabeth II, we created our own special prayers. May she rest in peace.
Thanks for joining us for our Twitter takeover.