Immanuel and St.

Andrew CE Primary School

Year 5 Class Bulletin
Term 5 April 2010
2007
Dear Parents / Carers & children!
Welcome to Term 5! It is fantastic that we now have the sun with us and hopefully it will
continue. The children have already settled well into the new term and are focussed on their
learning.
Please note that the Year 5 Class Collective Worship Assembly is next Thursday on 29th
April at 10.40am. Hopefully you will be able to come along.
The information below will provide you with more details about what the children will be
learning during the course of the term. It may be helpful for the children to conduct some
prior research from books or the internet.
I’ve included pictures of some of the highlights from Term 4 on the second page.
Feel free to contact me with any queries and questions. Sola Ingram
singram@immanuelschoollambeth.org.uk

Topics this term Important Notes:

Outdoor PE –net and wall games
Knowledge and Understanding of the World
(science, History and Geography) Tuesday afternoons. Kit required: navy
Our topic this term is titled ‘Out of this World,’ within which we will shorts/tracksuit bottoms and pale blue t-
explore space, earth, the sun and moon. shirt/dark sweatshirt. Trainers are
Children will learn to recognise that the Earth, Sun and Moon are
spherical and support this with some evidence. They will explain needed.
in terms of the rotation of the Earth why shadows change and the
Sun appears to move across the sky during the course of the
day. They will also recognise that it is daylight in the part of the
Earth facing the Sun, that the Moon orbits the Earth and identify
patterns in secondary data about sunrise and sunset. We will Indoor PE- Thursday afternoons. Kit required:
also be finding out about the first and subsequent lunar landings, as above
researching the physical features of the solar system and stars
and exploring solar and lunar eclipses. The children will also Diary Dates
th
have the opportunity to explore specific areas of interest in more Tuesday 27 April Year 5 visit to South Bank
depth. Centre Poetry Trip and Gamelan music
Fun activities and more information can be found on the websites
below: Thursday 29th April Year 5 Collective
Worship Assembly for parents at 10.40am
http://www.nasa.gov/audience/forkids/kidsclub/flash/index.html
http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/Homework/sspace.html Friday 14th May (evening) Christian Aid
Literacy ‘Unleash your talent’ Staff & Parent Talent
Our literacy focus this term will also continue with the space
Show
theme with children writing stories about characters from space
and producing their own space information books. The children
will also explore the features of myths and Legends and write Friday 28th May Last day of Term 5
some of their own.
Tuesday 8th June First day of Term 6
Creative Development
The children will make models and displays of the solar system, Thursday 10th – Wednesday 16th June Book
space collages and rockets.
Fair comes to school
RE- Peace
Within this unit the children will consider what it means to be Tuesday 6th July Sports Day
peaceful, compare the ways in which people with religious and Wednesday 14th July Musictrax concert (a.m.)
non-religious views pursue peace, recognise what it means to
have peace with God and examine the teachings of Jesus that Thursday 15th July Parents Evening
relate to being a peace-maker. 1.45-6.45 p.m.

Friday 23rd Last Day of Term 6

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Year 5 Class Bulletin cont …
Term 5 April 2010
2007
Sex and Relationship Education
This term SRE will be taught throughout the school.

In year 5 the children will be covering the areas below:

• Puberty and its impact on the body

• Gender stereotypes
• Menstruation and wet dreams
• Building good relationships

Feel free to speak to me about any questions and queries that you may have.

Topics this term

ICT –Spreadsheets
In this unit children will learn to enter numbers, labels
and simple formulae into a spreadsheet and to use the
data to calculate totals. They will then use imputed data
to create bar charts and graphs
PE
Outdoor PE –Tennis
Indoor PE- Dance with a professional dance tutor

Creative Maths
Each Friday the children are taught creative maths. The aim
is to help them to see maths in a wider context and
encourage greater maths enjoyment, creativity,
collaboration and communication, reasoning strategies and
skills; and self reflection and evaluation. This term the
focus is Maths and Art and we will focus on the work and
techniques of Paul Klee. Visit to the Imperial
Homework
War Museum
Homework will continue to be set each Friday and is
expected to be handed in the following Wednesday and
spellings will continue to be given out every Monday and
children will be tested on Fridays. Please continue to
encourage the children to complete all homework to a good
standard and help them to remember and apply the spelling
rule that has been taught during the week.

Recipe books will definitely be available for

sale this term. More details to follow.