Bridgetown Primary School
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Year 5
WELCOME!
Welcome to year 5!
Your teachers this year are:
Swans - Teacher: Miss Thijssen Teaching Assistant: Mrs Biles
Herons - Teacher: Miss Woodcock Teaching Assistant: Mrs Hewlett
Spring 2 - Volcanoes
This half term in PSHE we will be learning about puberty; exploring the physical and emotional changes including menstruation and hygiene. You might like to speak to your child about this either before or after our topic.
Week | Maths | English | Topic |
1 | Decimals and percentages
| TFW - Humpty | Topic afternoon |
2 | Measurement - perimeter | Playscripts – rewriting a story as a playscript | Layers of the Earth |
3 | Measurement - area | Playscripts – writing the next scene of Pompeii | To understand and describe the formation and eruption of volcanoes |
4 | Graphs and tables/maths assessments | Volcano fact files/ reading assessment | To understand and describe the formation and eruption of volcanoes |
5 | Graphs and tables | Volcanoes | To understand and describe the formation and eruption of volcanoes |
P.E: UPDATED FOR SPRING 2
This half term, Swans will be swimming on a Monday afternoon and Thursdays will have circus dance on a Thursday afternoon. All children please to come into school in their P.E kit on those days and if you're swimming, bring a drawstring bag with your swimming kit and a towel in.
P.E: UPDATED FOR SPRING 1
This half term, Herons will be swimming on a Monday afternoon and Swans will have handball on a Thursday afternoon. All children please to come into school in their P.E kit on those days and if you're swimming, bring a drawstring bag with your swimming kit and a towel in.
Spring 1 Overview
Spring 1 Topic Organiser
Spring 1 KIRF - Fractions and Decimals
Autumn 2 overview
Autumn 2 Space Topic Organiser
Autumn 2 KIRF - Prime Numbers
Lions ROAR Project 2022
04.10 - 'A day in the life of a tourist trip' around Stratford. We went to discover what sites tourists would visit in Stratford including the information centre, Shakespeare's birthplace, the RSC and many more (including an ice cream!).
Here's what we're doing in English, Maths and Topic for this half term:
Week | Maths | English | Science | Topic Topic: Stratford-upon-Avon: What is it like to live in a tourist town? |
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1 | Growth Mind Set activities and challenges.
Place value Numbers to 10,000 | Non-chronological report Swans or herons.
| Forces Introduction to forces and key vocabulary.
Force, gravity, friction, air resistance, upthrust, water resistance, weight, mass, newton, newton metre | Introduction to topic.
KWL and prior knowledge discussion.
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2 | Place value Rounding to the nearest 10,100 and 1000
| Forces Air resistance and gravity | Topic vocabulary focus
county, town, city, capital, country, continent local, environment, pollution, settlement
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Narrative poetry The Highwayman
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3 | Place value Using a number line to 100,000
Ordering and comparing to 100,000
Rounding to 100,000
Roman numerals | Forces Air resistance – planning a parachute investigation. | Ordinance Survey map symbols
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4 | Place value Using a number line to 1,000,000
Ordering and comparing to 1,000,000
Rounding to 1,000,000
| ROAR Project | Forces Air resistance – conducting parachute investigation. | Potential off site trip:
Using a map in the local area and conducting a traffic count. |
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5 | Place value
Negative numbers
Counting in 10’s, 100’s, 1000’s
Number sequences | By Ask, Oak and Thorne Introduction of the book
Key vocabulary Short burst writing on Autumnal images | Forces Water resistance | What is tourism?
Why is Stratford-upon-Avon a tourist town? |
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6 | Addition and subtraction Adding and subtracting numbers with more than 4 digits. | Using direct speech
| Forces Upthrust – boat experiment | River Avon – its purpose and comparisons between then and now. |
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7 | Addition and subtraction Mental addition and subtraction techniques and strategies | Planning and writing a descriptive paragraph | Forces Friction – James Bond investigation | Impacts of tourism |
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Our first topic:
Here is our Year 5 KIRF (Key Instant Recall of Facts) focus for this half term. We are learning about how to find factor pairs of a number.
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