Welcome to Class 5P

Your class teacher is Ms Powell,

PE days are Monday and Tuesday. Remember to come into school wearing your PE kit on these days.

Welcome back to the 2nd part of the Summer Term!

Please remember PE days are on Mondays and Tuesdays. Please wear PE kit on these days.

Please remember to send children in with a small snack and a water bottle. Also, appropriate clothing to match the weather.

Homework – TTR, Spelling Shed, Maths Shed. Also, please remember children should be reading for at least 20 minutes a day, at home.

Topic: What the Dickens?
Our learning this half term has a historical focus, as we delve into the Victorian era and the life and times of Charles Dickens.

English

We’ll be exploring The Odyssey (adapted by Gillian Cross) to develop narrative writing skills. Children will write diary entries, character soliloquies, persuasive proclamations, and an epic adventure story. They’ll also refine grammar skills, including using multi-clause sentences, adverbials, parenthesis, and punctuation such as commas and semi-colons.

Reading

Our core texts are Street Child by Berlie Doherty. Reading lessons include echo reading, fluency practice, comprehension, and rich oracy discussions around plot and character.

Maths

This half term, we’re focusing on decimals and volume. Children will develop fluency in adding and subtracting decimals, apply formal written methods, and solve real-life problems involving place value and number bonds.

Science

Our topic is Reversible and Irreversible Changes. Children will investigate materials and their properties (such as insulation, conductivity, and solubility), and explore methods for separating materials using filtration, evaporation, and sieving.

History

In History, we’ll study key aspects of Victorian Britain, including Queen Victoria’s reign, the Industrial Revolution, and the lives of significant individuals such as Charles Dickens, Isambard Kingdom Brunel, Dr Barnardo, and William Morris.

PSHE

This term includes key learning around Growing and Changing, with a focus on personal identity, mental wellbeing, and staying safe in different situations, including basic first aid.

French

Children will build vocabulary around healthy lifestyles—foods, activities, and following recipes in French—culminating in a class survey and an end-of-unit assessment.

Art

The focus in Art this term is Printing, linked to our Victorian theme.

This half term is another busy one!

English Writing – We will be studying the book ‘Hidden Figures’ by Margot Lee Shetterley. Hidden Figures explores the biographies of three African American women who worked as computers to solve problems for engineers and others at NASA. For the first years of their careers, the workplace was segregated and women were kept in the background as human computers.

The children will have the opportunity to: write a persuasive letter, order key events chronologically and identify relevant and key information through research.

English Reading - Skellig David Almond - Echo reading, reading to a partner, vocabulary through inference, reading comprehension, retrieval and summarising.

Maths – Statistics, Shape, Position and Direction and Decimals

Please continue to support your children with learning/securing their times table knowledge through Times Table Rockstars.

Science - Living things and their habitats including life cycles and animal and plant reproduction

Geography – Who you like to live in the desert? Exploring hot desert biomes and learning about the physical features of a desert.

R.E. - Why do some people believe in God and some people not? Exploring the idea of God both psychologically and theologically to offer reasons why some people may choose to believe or not believe in God.

Art – Digital Art – we will be looking at and producing digital art inspired by Andy Warhol, David Hockney, Eric Johansson, Stephen McMennamy and Vera Molnar.

DT – Pop-up book – create a functional pop-up storybook design, using lever, sliders, layers and spacers to create paper-based mechanisms.

French – Clothes

PSHE – Health and Wellbeing

Music - All the learning in this unit is focused around one song: Dancing in the Street by Martha and The Vandellas. The material presents an integrated approach to music where games, the dimensions of music (pulse, rhythm, pitch etc), singing and playing instruments are all linked.