Year Five
Mrs Todd is the teacher in our Year Five class. Our PE day is Wednesday.
Class Saint
St Therese of Lisieux. Patron Saint of the Missions. Feast day is 1st October.
Therese was known for being selfish, attention-seeking and spoiled. Therese wished to become a nun from the age of 3. When Therese was 13, she had what she called her 'Christmas Conversion.' In an instant, she stopped being selfish, became determined to help others and radiated joy. At the age of 15, Therese entered the monastery and achieved her dream. Therese is most known for her 'Little Way' - she spoke of doing small things with great love. Therese carried a string of beads and used them to count her good deeds. She believed it is not the greatness of what we do that matters, but the love with which we do them.
St Therese, pray for us.
Summer Term Curriculum Overview
Maths
Draw, measure and calculate angles. 3-D shapes. Co-ordinates. Translation. Lines of symmetry. Add and subtract decimals. Multiply and divide by 10, 100 and 1000. Negative numbers. Convert units of length and time. Volume.
English
This term, we will be studying Holes. The key learning will be relative clauses, using brackets for parenthesis, and using organizational and presentational devices to support and guide the reader. We will be doing this through narratives, diaries and informal letters.
RE
To the ends of the Earth
- Identify that scripture speaks of the outpouring of gifts of the Holy Spirit on the Messiah in the Old Testament and the gospels. Make links with the Sacrament of Confirmation.
- Show knowledge and understanding of the religious actions and signs involved in the celebration of confirmation
- Describe the gifts of the Holy Spirit and describe some ways they help Christians be good disciples
- Using the lives of Mary and another saint as examples, explain what the term ‘discipleship’ means
- Know that the Rosary is a prayerful reflection on the life of Christ and explain what the glorious mysteries remember
Dialogue and Encounter
- Explain that the Bible came together over a period of more than a thousand years and contains sacred texts from Judaism, the four Gospels, and other early writings of the Church
- Know that the Church teaches that Sacred Scripture is the inspired Word of God and the Church helps Catholics read and understand the Bible
- Know that the Bible is translated from different languages into many languages
- Recognise that the Tanakh uses different names for God that reveal aspects of his nature
- Describe some Jewish beliefs expressed in the Shema prayer
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Art
Y5 will be studying collage and painting. Key learning includes:
- Experiment with line
- Explore artworks by Qhaqhoo, Grayson Perry, Harriet Powers and Faith Ringgold
- Primary, secondary, tertiary colours and complementary; intensity and warm and cool colours
- Shape, perspective, positive and negative space
Science
Compare and group materials, solutions and substances, filtering, sieving and evaporating, uses of everyday materials and reversible and irreversible changes
Describe the differences in the life cycles of a mammal, an amphibian, an insect and a bird. Describe the life process of reproduction in some plants and animals.
Design and Technology
Textiles - Combining different fabric shapes
PE
Badminton and Athletics
Computing
Programming - Selection in Quizzes. Children use their knowledge of writing programs and using selection to control outcomes to design a quiz in response to a given task and implement it as a program.
Music
Balinese music - The children will explore the music of Bali through Gamelan beleganjur music.
PSHE / RSE
The principles of Catholic Social Teaching. Ways in which they can spread God’s love in their community. Learn about the process of getting a job and consider factors that influence job choices. Understand how stereotyping can affect work aspirations and learn to challenge such attitudes. Consider jobs in different sectors, learning pathways to work and their own job aspirations.