Homework Projects
Choose two of the following project ideas. One must be
submitted on Monday 20th March. The second must be
submitted on Friday 31st March.
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Take a look at some old family photographs. Create a timeline for your family showing important events such as births, marriages or house moves.
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Take digital photographs of as many different types of watches as you can
find and create a montage. Design a watch of your own using your collected images as inspiration. You could incorporate some exciting new functions!
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Draw and label a design for a product of the future. What would it do? How
would it make life easier?
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If you could travel to any period of time, anywhere in the world, where
would you go? Make a scrap book of your chosen time period and explain
what you would do while you were there.
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Find out about some of the most important technological inventions in the
last century such as mobile phones, GPS, microwave ovens, MRI scans, video games and the World Wide Web. Can you imagine life without them
now? Conduct a survey with family and friends to find out which aspect of
technology they would most miss if they had to do without it.
On going: Practise focus times tables and spellings every week at home ready
for the tests every Friday.
Learning in Science
Learning in Year 5
In Science this half term we will be studying the changes in the human body, describing the changes
which take place as humans develop to old age. We will also be learning about life processes of re-
Tick, tock, tick, tock… the hands on the clock never stop. From the moment we
are born, from toddler to teen, middle age to elderly, time stops for no man.
During our Time Travellers topic, Year 5 will find out what happens to our bodies
and brains as we grow older, and how do we cope with these changes.
How long does a human baby to grow inside the womb? Does it take longer for
and elephant calf? Or a kitten?
Take a good look at yourself… How as your face changed since you were a
baby and how will it change as your grow older? Can you photograph it,
change it, age it?
And what would happen if the clock struck thirteen? In ‘Tom’s Midnight Garden’,
he travels to the past. What an amazing adventure! Imagine where you could
time travel too: where would you go and what would you like to see? Will you
head back to your past or into your future? You decide!
Tick, tock, tick, tock… the hands on the clock never stop!
production, learning how to describe the reproduction process of humans.
We will also be looking at classification of living things, discussing why humans are classified as diurnal
and discovering other creatures which are similar.
Learning across the wider Curriculum
Geography and History- In our humanities learning, Year 5 are going to look at the history and geography of our local area and how life has changed in the last century. What important changes
have occurred? How has the population of our community changed over the past decades and
what this has meant to our local area? How will the geography continue to change in the future?
Art and DT In year 5, we will be focusing on studying the human face and how this changes as life
moves on. The children will experience using digital photography to capture the faces of their
peers. We will then move on to look at the famous artist Salvador Dali and his work of clock faces.
The children will use this as inspiration to design their own clock faces.
R.E. We will study the festival of Holi which is celebrated in the Hindu faith. Children will learn the
stories behind the creation of this festival and organise and take part in a celebration of Spring.
Learning in English
Music We will be working on the IPADs to produce music on an app called Garage Band.
Reading
Year 5 will be reading and studying Tom’s Midnight Garden as our class novel. Children will develop
their understanding of texts by asking questions based on what is read. They will also focus on using
contextual evidence to make sense of what is being read support their ideas with quotes from texts.
Writing
This half term children will begin by writing a narrative which will enable them to further develop their
setting and character descriptions. This narrative will link closely to our class novel Tom’s Midnight
Garden. Children will then move onto writing autobiographies which will link into the Time travellers
topic as children will explore their lives from birth and write a detailed account of the main events by
focussing on using cohesive devices such as fronted adverbials, subordinating and coordinating
conjunctions and punctuation. We will also be celebrating Shakespeare week by deconstructing his
poems and using these as inspiration to write our own.
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Learning in Maths
This term, Year 5 will read, write, order and compare numbers with up to three decimal
places. They will solve problems which require knowing percentage and decimal
equivalents of a half, quarter, a fifth, two fifths and four fifths and those fractions with a
denominator of a multiple of 10 or 25. Children will also learn to Multiply and divide whole
numbers and those involving decimals by 10, 100 and 1000. Year 5 will then Recognise the
per cent symbol (%) and understand that per cent relates to ‘number of parts per hundred’,
and write percentages as a fraction with denominator 100, and as a decimal. They will then
solve problems which require knowing percentage and decimal equivalents of and those
fractions with a denominator of a multiple of 10 or 25.
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Trips and Experiences
We will be visiting an residential care home,
reading and interacting with people of different ages then ourselves to learn about
their lives and to share our own life
experiences with them.
How Can You Help?
To begin this topic we ask that
you provide opportunities for
your child to talk to people
from different generations enquiring how their lives may differ.
Reading with your child daily
can really improve both their
reading and writing.
Practicing times tables with
children and encouraging
your child to practise at home
will be of great help.