Dear Parents/Guardians, Welcome back to the school year! Peter and the Wolf Base have already been hard at work this year – check out our class blog to see what has been going on so far! This year is full of exciting topics and activities for Year 5 and we are looking forward to taking the journey with your children! Below is an overview of what your children will be learning through the term – up until Christmas and this is supported by our class blog, especially our Literacy and Numeracy pages that will grow as we move on into the term. Our topic for the first half term is ‘The World and Us ’and this will be followed by a topic called ‘Peter and the Wolf’, which is not only our base name but will also link to our KS2 production as it is a fairy/folk tale. Literacy: We have started by looking at writing descriptively and have written character descriptions for the characters from Peter and the Wolf. Now, we have moved onto looking at stories by significant authors. We have started by looking at Michael Morpurgo and different types of story openings. This will lead onto developing our own writing of openings as well as writing a short story. We will then finish the term by looking at poetic style and developing our own. Numeracy: We start by focusing on counting, partitioning and calculating. This includes looking at place value and using our multiplication knowledge to find other facts. We will spend some time on mental and written methods for dividing and multiplying and develop our strategies for both. We will then move onto developing our understanding about shape including area and perimeter as well as data handling. RE: We have already started our RE as it links to our topic of The World and Us. We have used story making to retell the story of the Creation and considered what Christians could learn from it. We have also considered the Big Bang theory. We will be using ICT to create our own gardens and then link this to the story of Adam and Eve as well as considered God’s promise to Noah after the flood. We will also be learning about symbolism in these stories. Topic: As I have already mentioned, our first topic is ‘The World and Us’. The children have asked some very interesting questions and as you can see, we have already been learning through RE. We will be learning about how plants help the world, investigating how plants grow, disperse seeds and reproduce as well as planning and growing our own. We will also be exploring the patterns fruit and seeds make through art and we’ll finish by considering how recycling helps the world.
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