YEAR FIVE: SPRING TERM

HERE COMES SPRING TERM FOR YEAR FIVE

OUR CORE INTENTION IN ACTION

Take a look at the page below, including our curriculum project posters and mats, and download copies at the base of the page.

We write to entertain with a piece called Oba's Mask (inspired by the Benin civilisation) during our English projects. We also draw inspiration from our history studies for a Michael Palin style traveler's diary and then complete the term with an information and explanation piece all about the Kingdom of Benin. Mathematics is as busy as ever. We have lots of units/projects to undertake this term. They range from multiplication and division to fractions, decimals and percentages. 

We look at the work of Abel Rodriguez, Henri Rousseau & Ruth Daniels during our collage studies in Art & Design. We then attempt our own rainforest and jungle inspired piece. Spring means performing in Music: accompaniments to familiar songs and melodies using the pentatonic scale. It is textiles in Design & Technology. Using our Benin historical project as inspiration, the children design and create their own piece of Benin clothing - named 'pagne'. Our Physical Education work focuses upon running, jumping and throwing both indoors and outdoors, as we build upon our athletics programme through school.

For History, we take a look at the Benin civilisation and culture. It allows us to makes contrasts the the Greek and Egyptian projects that the children have undertaken in recent times and feeds really well into the Victorian studies that follow in summer as the fall of the Benin civilisation was directly linked to the British Empire. Meanwhile, our Geography project take a turn towards a region study and we look at one of our favourites: The Amazon. There is so much to consider and so many new pieces of knowledge to explore. It is a real winner with the children! In Religious Education, we ask why Christians believe that Jesus was a great teacher and why some believe that Easter signifies victory. Two big questions for us to debate and consider.

We look at changes that occur with age during Science. We also visit another favourite project in Earth and Space. We look at our planet, and others in the solar system, and consider how their movements in relation to each other. We ask As-Tu Un Animal? (Do you have any pets?) during our French work and then move onto a linked theme called Les Habitats. We look at transferring and transmitting data during our Computing work using Micro:Bits, whilst search engines remains our ongoing computer networks aspect. Tools to collaborate online and the risks to personal information are the themes we consider in E-Safety. We look at peer pressure amongst a number of themes in PSHE & Relationships. We also look at families, including different types of families and relationships.