Year 5 - Attenborough Class
Attenborough Class
Class teacher: Mrs Wilder-Woods
Learning Assistants: Miss Folmer, Miss Dawson and Miss Byrne
This term:
STEAM |
This term our STEAM focus is Performance Arts, and we will be answering the question ‘Can I explore cultures and celebrations from around the world?’ The outcomes throughout the learning journey will include: performing a piece of music inspired by the festival Día de Muertos; illustrating and decorating a ceramic skull, inspired by Central American traditions, beliefs, artists and artwork and producing a self-portrait, inspired by Frida Kahlo, that represents their own heritage and culture. Through this term’s STEAM project, we will be covering the disciplines of Music, Art and Geography. Throughout our learning journey we will:
To help with our STEAM project, we would like to ask for a voluntary contribution of £2 per child to help us with funding. Your donations will be used to purchase materials for the investigations that the children will conduct. |
Maths |
We will begin this term by finding equivalent fractions and simplifying. This will involve thinking about:
After this, we will be linking fractions, decimals and percentages. This will involve thinking about:
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Writing |
We will begin this term begin by writing biographies about Frida Kahlo. We will learn to:
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Computing |
This term in Computing, we will be learning how to create short videos in groups. As the children progress through this unit, they will be exposed to topic-based language and develop the skills of capturing, editing, and manipulating video. At the conclusion of the unit, learners have the opportunity to reflect on and assess their progress in creating a video. |
HRE (Health and Relationships Education) |
In HRE this term, the children will learn to:
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Music |
This term, we will be continuing with our unit focused around the song Dancing In The Street by Martha And The Vandellas. We will continue to take an integrated approach to music where games, elements of music (pulse, rhythm, pitch etc), singing and playing instruments are all linked. As well as learning to sing, play, improvise and compose with this song, children will listen and appraise other similar tracks. As well as this discrete Music unit, we will be covering Music learning within our STEAM learning journey (as mentioned above). |
PE |
This term in PE, we will be learning Central American inspired dance steps, building up to creating a short routine. In cricket, we will be working towards playing a game of cricket using effective fielding skills and different batting techniques |
MFL - French |
This term we will learn vocabulary and sentences related to Time. The children will learn to:
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RE |
Across the school this term, we will be exploring the big question ‘Are humans superior to animals?’ in our RE assemblies. In our RE lessons in class, we will learn to:
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