Year 5

Welcome to Year 5

Meet the Team

Our topic this term is …

What is the impact of deforestation on the Amazon Rainforest?

Our class novel this half term: 

Explorer by Katherine Rundell

Our behaviour focus:

• Team Stop 
• Wonderful Walking in corridors
• Lining up after breaks and lunchtimes

Maths Focus: 

• Area, Perimeter and Volume
• Decimals and Percentages

English Focus: 

• During Summer 1, Year 5 will be writing an Amazon setting description. We will be focussing on the use of expanded noun phrases, fronted adverbials and relative clauses. Following this, we will plan and write a speech to save our trees where we will practise the use of modal verbs and adverbials to indicate degrees of possibility.

PE day: 

Swimming on Tuesday Morning

Trips and class events:

Coal Mining Museum- 2nd July

Useful websites:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zvbtxbk

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zpv3r2p

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zq6svcw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xUkMakLBN0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZchOFRu4fk