Class 11 (Year 5)

Welcome to Year 5!

A big welcome to all of Class 11 and their families to what we hope will be an exciting and enjoyable year of learning. We hope to keep everyone updated through this page so please check in regularly to see photographs and read reports about what Class 11 have been up to.

Please check out our Autumn 1 Newsletter to read about our exciting first half term together.

Mr Parsonage (Class teacher) and Miss Jackson (Class TA)

autumn-1-curriculum-newsletter.docx

Our quality text to focus on this half term will be "The Time Travelling Cat and the Egyptian Goddess,." by Julia Jarman.

Linked to this; for our topic we have started investigating the Ancient Egyptians. We will be looking back at the way that they lived, their royal pharaohs, great pyramids and scenic landscape.

We started by investigating some historical artifacts.

We had a visit from the Mighty Zulu Nation as a part of Black History week.

We also learned all about Martin Luther King and his "I have a dream speech". We wrote our own speeches to perform!

We are studying Space as a topic this half term!

This is the curriculum newsletter for this half term; covering everything that we will do.

Y5 and 6 Autumn 2 curric newsletter.docx

We had a visit from a rather different museum...

We learned all about different artifacts and people from Ancient Egypt, we knew loads from last half term and were able to wow them with our knowledge! We looked at real Ancient Egyptian tools, trinkets and statues.

We created Tudor Galleons for DT Week

Class 11 Assembly on community

Class 11 has have been studying "Changes in Matter" in Science.

We looked at reversible and irreversible changes...such as melting chocolate!

Spring 2 Curriculum newsletter

Spring 2 newsletter.docx

For World Book Week, we had a pyjama party!

We looked at the Shakespeare story "The Tempest" and shared what we had learnt with Class 12 and Class 13. We also read a series of Shakespeare stories in Guided Reading which we shared in our class.