Year 5

This half term Year 5 are becoming explorers of the Alpine Region. During this topic, they will learn about the continent where the Alps can be found, the countries that the Alps cover and the different climates of the area. In addition to this, the children will be able to recognise human and physical features of the landscape.

Our topic for this half term focuses upon Space. During Topic, we will be learning all about the planets in our Solar System, why we experience phenomena such as day and night and the seasons. The children have each thought of a ‘big question’ about space that they are going to research independently this half term. In English, we will be writing a newspaper article reporting all about space landings; in addition, we will also be learning all about Tim Peake in order to write an accurate biography detailing his life leading up to becoming an astronaut and life as an astronaut. In Maths, we will be learning multiplication and division, fractions and percentages (in particular, adding and subtracting fractions when they have different denominators and finding percentages more and less of an amount).