Class 10 – Year 5

Welcome to Year 5.

Here you will find information about our class and what we are learning about.

In Spring Term, we will be looking at the Victorians era, Queen Victoria and other significant Victorian people. We will learn about the Industrial Revolution and the growth of the British Empire before moving onto local history. In science, we will be looking at forces including gravity, friction. We’ll have plenty of investigations to explore forces and how they act upon one another. Later in the term we will studying the Earth, Sun and Moon, finding out about our solar system. In Design and Technology, our topic is Mechanical Systems, and we will be looking at pulleys and gears, making links to our forces science topic. In Art, we will be looking at textiles and weaving and after half term we will be printing linking this to William Morris. In Computing, we will look at flat-file databases and how to search through records using fields along with creating games in Scratch. In RSHE, we will be focusing on healthy online relationships and how to keep ourselves safe online, before moving onto Mental Wellbeing. In Religious Education, we focus on three questions; ‘Do we all have a mission in life?’, ‘Why do we need memories?’ and ‘Why do we need to make sacrifices?’. In Spanish, we look at how people in Spain celebrate the new year and our hobbies and sports along with food and Easter. In English, during Autumn term, we will be looking at two books ‘The Selfish Giant’ by Oscar Wilde when we will be writing descriptive pieces, diaries, newspaper reports and retelling the story from the giant’s point of view and ‘The Deepest Dark by Chris Hadfield, for this we will be writing a biography and a non-chronological report.