Learning and Achieving Together
Sapphire 2023-24
Welcome to Year 5 and Team Sapphire
Your teacher is Ms Ellis
Your teaching assistants are Ms Routledge and Mrs Green
Another Busy Half Term in Year 5!
In Science this half term, we have continued to enhance our understanding of forces, investigating friction and mechanisms such as gears, levers and pulleys. In RE, we have learnt about the importance of Lent to Christian followers and how fasting is observed across different religions. We have also learnt about the Easter story and the traditions and symbols related to it and compared the festivals of Passover and Easter.
As Historians, we have discovered some fascinating facts about the Vikings and the last Anglo-Saxon kings including Alfred the Great, Ethelred II the Unready, Edward the Confessor and King Harold. In PSHE, we have enhanced our understanding of how to stay healthy. We have found out how smoking and drinking alcohol can affect our bodies and learnt how to help in an emergency situation by placing someone who is breathing but unconscious into the recovery position.
In DT, we have had fun designing and making our Viking houses learning how to safely cut wood using handsaws and use a glue guns. We have taken part in a number of P4C discussions across the curriculum to further develop our knowledge, debate and build upon each other’s ideas.
We have also enjoyed Red Nose Day, World Book Day and Science Week when we had the opportunity to investigate if different fruit affects how long it takes jelly to set.
Next term in Science, we will be learning all about Space and learning about Rivers in Geography. Well done for all your hard work this half term everyone. We hope you all have a lovely holiday and enjoy a well-earned break!
Weekly Home Learning
Times Table Rock Stars and Spellings each day
Reading (5 times per week or 7 times for the challenge)
Your optional home learning this term
is to research the Vikings
You might like to think about:
Who were they? Where did they come from?
When did they come to Britain?
Where else did they travel to?
What were the Vikings good at?
How did they influence life in Britain?
What were their religious beliefs?
What were the Viking warriors like?
What were the Viking longships like?
Congratulations to the half-termly Values winners!
Bow
Mia
Dom
Antonia
Kacey
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