YEAR FIVE: SUMMER TERM

YEAR FIVE ON-SEA FOR THE SUMMER!

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 The Pavilion Pearl during our English projects. We draw inspiration from our history studies for The Grand Attraction (a persuasive advertising project) and then complete the term with an information and explanation piece all about Victorian Pastimes. Mathematics is as busy as ever. We have lots of units/projects to undertake this term. They range between volume, converting units, position/direction, properties of shapes and decimals.

We have looked at the work of Matthew Palmer during our painting studies during Art & Design. We then attempted our own watercolour seascapes using paints in our own sketchbooks and final pieces - being inspired by the Victorian railway posters depicting the delights of fresh air and beaches of our coastlines. Summer means composing in Music: we have tried to use images of Victorian people visiting Blackpool and St Annes and play our own music to match the mood and feelings. It is moveable mechanics in Design & Technology. Using our Victorians-On-Sea historical project as inspiration, the children design and create their own turn of the century 3-D big wheel. Our Physical Education work contains our swimming curriculum delivery this term. We visit the YMCA pool on the promenade for our programme led by the team there. We also continue to develop our sport specific skills: returning to cricket with a focus upon hitting/striking, catching and running within fielding based drills. 

Victorians-On-Sea arrives in Summer Term. This was always one of our most exciting History projects when we first put the curriculum together and it remains so today. A visit from historic Blackpool mayor John Bickerstaffe sets the tone for a term fo historical local studies all about the growth of our unique home towns and the importance of the Victorian perid of history in its creation. Geography draws upon this as well as we consider our locality and region in How did Blackpool grow from Victorian times? Here we take a look at the natural and physical environment. Studying the opportunities and the ways in which tourism changed its future forever and has created the space we live in today. 

During our Religious Education studies we ask two big questions. Firstly we ask what does peace really mean? Then we move onto to ask about the role of women in the Old Testament. Both of these issues create plenty of debate and discussion.

A major life cycle focus is the project for Science during the first half of the term. Comparing the cycles of mammals, birds and insects. We then return to the theme of Forces & Magnets from Year 3 focuing this time upon air resistance, water resistance, friction and gravity.

Le Weekend and En Ville are the projects in French this term. We look at introduce vocabulary linked to weekend activities and pursuits and then explore language related to towns and what we may find or use there. In Computing, we create images this time through a special stop motion project with a short TV film as the focus. Search engines remain our computing networks theme. Passwords and privacy settings are the focus for our E-Safety work this term. Finally, but not least, PSHE & Relationships takes a look at what perseverance and resilience means (linked to Mayfield Citizens) and how we help to keep ourselves safe and happy through economic wellbeing - namely understanding we may not have lots but what it means to try and manage money.