Chestnut Class: Year 5

Welcome to the Chestnut Class page!

Class Teacher: Mrs Cole

Teaching Partner: Mrs Wilson and Ms Lewis-Knight

We are thrilled to have your child as part of our class this year and look forward to taking you on our learning journey as the year progresses.

General Information:

Your child should come to school with their PE Kit on Thursdays and Fridays (Summer Term). Our PE Kit consists of a navy PE top, blue/black shorts/jogging bottoms and trainers. As November and December tend to be cold, please ensure that pupils have warm PE kit for outdoor learning.
Reading diaries must be in school at the beginning of each day. The expectation is that each child will read at home at least three times a week. This will be checked by the class teacher on Thursday. Please make sure parents or guardians sign the diary.

Our learning in the Spring term: 

In Maths we will begin our learning with a focus on measure and converting between different units of measure. We will continue working on different elements of measure and consolidate our learning on Fractions. We will finish the year with a unit on statistics.
In English we will focus on the text 'The Closest Thing to Flying' before then moving onto 'Cogheart' in the second half of the summer term. These texts will feed into many different writing outcomes such as story writing, poetry and newspaper writing.
We will begin our Science learning by looking at Properties and Change before moving onto Growing Older.
In History we will look at the history of Baghdad. Within these lessons, we will develop our historical skills of chronology, historical enquiry and how primary and secondary sources shape our understanding of the past.
For our Geography learning, we will be learning all about Biomes and Vegetation.
In DT this term, we will looking at electrical systems, making hand made switches.
French this term will have a focus on school items, lessons and key vocabulary.
For our PSHE learning, we focus on how we can best make and maintain healthy 'Relationships', alongside an awareness of how we will change as we grow older
Computing will allow us to make progress with our online safety knowledge as well as developing our knowledge in databases and concept maps.
Our PE learning this term will cover Cricket and Athletics.
In RE we will be learning about how non religious people understand and respond to the world and life along with how different religious or individual beliefs help people when life becomes difficult.
Music for this term will give us the opportunity to begin improvising and composing with confidence of different notes that go together. We will also develop our class recorder skills.