Autumn Term in Year 5
The inspirational texts on our bookshelf will inspire our learning across the curriculum.
Our learning will be underpinned by our Autumn bookshelf; filled with inspiring and engaging texts to spark our imaginations and teach us the many different ways people and characters can demonstrate courage and how the idea of courage can apply to many different contexts.
Autumn Bookshelf
These books include non-fiction and information texts, picture books, narratives and novels. All of these texts will help us explore the character traits of kindness, citizenship, integrity, curiosity, bravery and gratitude.
A Galaxy of Her Own is an inspiring collection of stories detailing the extraordinary achievements of women in space, which we will use to create biographies of one of our favourite space pioneers. Stonewall: A building, An Uprising, A Revolution, is a non-fiction text about the Stonewall movement which began in New York City in 1969 and will form the basis for our persuasive letter writing. We will also read Sky Song, Black Dog and The Iron Man to supplement and support our English and Reading curriculum as well as our foundation subjects.
Autumn Learning at a Glance
In Geography, we will be looking at how Tectonic plates are formed. As part of this we will learn about different natural landscapes and how there are common characteristics in different climate areas. In History we will study the Viking and Anglo-Saxon struggle for the Kingdom of England. Our science topics are: Forces and Space. To top it all off we will celebrate Black History Month and Rosh Hashanah, as well as giving a Christmas performance!
Year 5 Autumn Term Highlights
- Christmas Performance
- Christmas Cinema/Theatre Visit
- Opportunities to learn outside the classroom
- Author Visits
- Educational off-site visit
- Woodwind or brass music tuition
Meet the Year 5 Team
Miss Haigh – Class Teacher
Mrs Maddison – Class Teacher
Mrs Romer – Class Teacher
Mrs Duffy – Learning Support Assistant
Mr Watts – Learning Support Assistant
Important Information
- Children will come into school on their PE kit on their PE days: Wednesdays and Thursdays
- Please make sure your child’s book bag containing their reading books and reading record is brought into school every day.
- Reading books will be changed as the children finish their book.
- In UKS2, we encourage children to read independently at home and sign their own reading record.
- Parents and carers can then monitor this weekly to ensure children are reading as much as possible.
- You know your child best and if you would like to sign their reading record, please do this.
- Home Learning will include daily reading, weekly spellings, and a maths or comprehension task each week.
- Your child’s class teacher will be available every day before and after school to receive messages, celebrate successes and discuss any questions.
As always, there will be lots of learning and exciting activities going on in Year 5 this term!
Please speak to our admin team for access to the Year 5 Instagram feed @chps.year5
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