Year 5

Year 5 will be reading the range of books listed below, which covers all the subjects in this year's curriculum:

• Aesop's Funky Fables
• The White Giraffe
• Drawbridge
• The Secret Diary of John Medieval Knight
• Cautionary Verses
• The Twits
• Grimm Tales
• The Graveyard Book
• Window
• Anglo-Saxon Times
• Artemis Fowl
• Explore!
• After the Fall

The topics we will be covering this term are:

English -  'Medieval Knights in training' by Philip Ardagh and 'Cautionary verses' by Hiliare Belloc.

Maths - Power Maths.  Addition, subtraction, rounding, place numbers to 100,000, value, inverse operations, division, multiplication.

Science - forces, gravity and friction.

History - middle ages and Anglo-Saxon life.

Geography - physical (global) geography.  Human geography (local).

Technology - building castles, trebuchet investigation.

ICT - computer skills.

Art - Mona Lisa, Da Vinci, perspective.

Music - rhythm and song writing.

PE - cross country, fitness testing.

RE - Islam: pillars of Islam.

PHSE - teamwork.

Relevant to our Year Group: