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Year 5 - Polar Bear & Sea Lion
Welcome to Year 5: Sea Lion and Polar Bear
Spellings - term 4
Term 5 home learning
Fortnight beginning 10th March 2025
These past two weeks have been filled with more Mayan learning. We have planned, written and published our own final chapters to The Chocolate Tree using 'show don't tell', characterising speech and using dashes to add information.
In maths we have dived into our topic of decimals and percentages. We have worked with decimals up to 2 decimal places and used place value charts to help convert between decimals and fractions.
We have begun constructing our pop-up books: first we stuck pieces of card together for the outer pages and then we added sliders and pivots for the parts that will move. We have enjoyed learning how these mechanisms work. We also looked at Maya city states and creates models to show the different parts. Finally, we learnt about the recovery position and practiced placing people in it.
Fortnight beginning 24th February 2025
Over the past 2 weeks we have started using 'The Chocolate Tree' in our English lessons. We have recapped similes and used them to write a description of Kukulkan - a Mayan god.
In maths we completed our topic on fractions by finding fractions of amounts and using a fraction to find the whole.
We have been fascinated learning about the Mayan civilisation in history. Did you know the civilisation was around from 2000BC to the 1500s when Spanish conquerors arrived. We looked at pictures of sources and developed some questions to investigate what we could learn about their life. In science we have looked at the differences in the life cycles of mammals, insects, birds and amphibians. We also looked at the pioneering work of two famous naturalists: David Attenborough and Jane Goodall. We had a wonderful day at The Malling School where we learnt about where in the world our food comes from. We were amazed at how far some of it travels. We then did some practical fieldwork to see if the secondary school students knew where certain food came from - surprisingly they did not!
Fortnight beginning 3rd February 2025
What a busy final 2 weeks of term 3! In English we completed our newspaper articles and then wrote persuasive letters to Mr South with our ideas for how our school could become more sustainable. Watch this space for his reply!
We continued applying our multiplication and division knowledge with problem solving then moved on to our next topic of fractions. We have learnt how to multiply unit fractions, non-unit fractions and mixed numbers by integers.
Most of us went to the O2 as part of the Young Voices concert and sang our hearts our whilst trying to remember the words and dance moves. It was a magical evening. In the last week of term, it was Science week and so we had the opportunity to be curious during our workshop with the team from Chatham Dockyard. See the pictures of us playing with oobleck, freezing an ice cube to a piece of string using salt, marvelling at kinetic sand, making smoke bubbles using dry ice and creating rocket mice with Year 1.
Fortnight Beginning 20th January 2025
Over the past two week we have been very busy. In English we have finished reading The Last Bear. We have been looking at journalistic writing and are in the process of planning and writing a newspaper report. In maths we have learned the formal written method for long multiplication and short division. We had a science morning, where we carried out experiments involving materials. We had an Ultimate Frisbee day for our first inter house competition.
Fortnight beginning 6th January 2025
Over the last two weeks we have been utterly entranced by Hannah Gold's book 'The Last Bear'. It's a story of a young girl who befriends a polar bear on an Arctic island. We have revised using modal verbs, apostrophes for omission and speech punctuation. We also wrote some wonderful figurative phrases using similes and personification.
In maths we have been working hard on our new unit: multiplication and division. We have been multiplying up to 3-digit numbers by 2-digit number.
During our geography lessons, we have started to think about our inquiry question: are we killing our planet? First, we looked at recycling and the various symbols you find on packaging. Then we looked at natural and synthetic resources and discussed the use of land for quarries.
Spellings - term 3
Fortnight beginning 2nd December 2024
Over the last two weeks we have been writing and publishing a chapter of our book 'Floodland' by Marcus Sedgwick, but we have been looking at it from another characters perspective. In maths we have been working on adding and subtracting fractions. In history we have looked at the end of the Viking era and created an Anglo-Saxon and Viking Timeline. During design technology, we had a day to create our Viking Long ships. We used measuring, cutting and gluing skill to pull our designs together.
Fortnight beginning 18th November 2024
Over the last two weeks we have been reading 'Floodland' by Marcus Sedgwick, we have been using visualisation to sketch and describe the setting, discussing the actions of the characters and planning our own chapter from another characters view point. In maths, we have continued to learn about fractions by recognising equivalent fractions and converting improper fractions to mixed numbers and ordering and comparing. During RSE we have been finding out how name calling and rumours can escalate.
Fortnight beginning 4th November 2024
We have been extremely busy for the first two weeks of term 2! We started with a focus on Remembrance: we discussed the meaning of Remembrance and poppies, created blackout poetry using 'In Flanders Fields' and made fabric poppies inspired by our learning last term about Colleen Atwood.
We then immersed ourselves in the world of physics and forces with Mr Berry. We investigated parachutes, ramps and even the speed of boats. It was a fantastic day and the children behaved very well.
Spellings - term 2
Fortnight Beginning 14th October 2024
For the last two weeks we have been discussing why some people believe God exists. In French, we have been learning the vocabulary for our monster pets. We have also explored prime, square and cube numbers in maths and the language of multiples and factors. For our final RSE lesson this term, we discovered the importance of teamwork in an exciting tower challenge.
Fortnight Beginning 30th September 2024
For the last two weeks we have been learning in science about time zones and why we have night and day. We have been learning rock and roll inspired moves in PE including hand jive, spins and steps. We have been coding in computing lessons, trying to simplify code. In art we have been perfecting our final costume designs.
Fortnight Beginning 16th September 2024
Over the last two weeks we have had so much fun. The fortnight started with a Viking Day, we dressed up and had our faces painted with warrior paint. We found out about the lives of the Vikings, tried weaving, making clay pots and created herbal remedies. In English we continued our information texts and wrote some creative pieces on a fictional character. We have also enjoyed learning to sing a Queen classic.
Fortnight Beginning 3rd September 2024
We have had a very busy first fortnight back at school. Over the last two weeks we have been learning about the key features of information texts, studying place value in numbers up to 1,000,000 in maths, discovering all about space and planets in science and exploring the costume designer Colleen Atwood in art.
Spellings- Term 1
