Year Five

Values for this Half term : generous and grateful. 

Pupils in a Jesuit school are becoming grateful for their gifts and generous with their gifts as well as helping others. 

OUR CLASS SAINT: ST. MARTIN DE PORRES

Building the Kingdom

We are very proud to be a part of the Building the Kingdom programme, the aim of which is to embed distinctive Catholic Curriculum design for the transformation of society. As said on their website, ‘through the National School of Formation, a dynamic and challenging approach to teaching and learning in a Catholic School has been developed. This initiative calls for the contextualising of all learning within the beliefs and values of the Gospel and the Catholic tradition, aspiring to reach the highest possible levels of learning. We call it Building the Kingdom…’

Through Building the Kingdom, we explore the big questions of purpose and meaning that arise throughout the Liturgical year, and then create lessons and events which engage students with the skills needed to be agents for a Spirit fuelled transformation of society.  

Through our curriculum work this term we will be focusing on

Catholic Social Teaching- Preferential option for the poor.

British Value- Individual Liberty. 

RE:

This half term we will be studying the unit 'Christmas and Baptism.'

Christmas- Children will learn to know the main features of the Christmas story and understand some of the difficulties faced by different characters in the story. 

Baptism- Children will be able to reference Gospel accounts of the Baptism of Jesus. Furthermore, they will be able to describe, sequence and explain many signs, symbols and actions in the Sacrament of Baptism. 

Science

This term, we are learning about properties and changes of materials.

Changes to materials- Children will learn how to recover a substance from a solution; demonstrate that dissolving, mixing and changes of state are reversible changes. Finally, they will also learn how to explain that some changes result in the formation of new materials and that this kind of change is not usually reversibl, including changes associated with burning and the action of acid on barcabonate soda. 

Reminders for Year 5:

* Please bring a sturdy and clearly named water bottle into school every day.

* Please ensure your reading diary and book are in school every day.

*Please ensure all items of clothing are clearly labelled with your name.

*PE is on every Thursday and every other Monday. Make sure you come to school in your PE kit with appropriate footwear 

Please complete at least 3 activities from the Topic Home learning ideas

• Times tables should be practised as often as possible until your child is competent up to multiplications of 12.

• This year, the ‘Reading Challenge’ will continue. If you read at least three times each week (and have evidence of this in your reading record), you will receive a very special reading award pin badge at the end of the year!

Autumn 2 Overview

• Curriculumn overview .docx
• home-learning-ideas (2) (1).pdf