"The path from dreams to success does exist. May you have the vision to find it, the courage to get on to it, and the perseverance to follow it." Kalpana Chawla (Engineer and first Indian American woman to go to space)
Welcome to Year 5
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This term, we will be going back to the Victorian era, and will write a diary entry from the perspective of a child from this era. We will be using our experience day at The Oxfordshire Museum, where we will experience being in a Victorian school, to support our writing.
In Maths, we will be learning about money, before moving on to negative numbers and short multiplication and division. In Science, we will continue to compare and describe the differences in the life cycles of a mammal, an amphibian, an insect and a bird.
Our enquiry question for this term is:
- How has childhood changed for boys and girls?
Inspirational People we will be looking at are:
- Thomas Barnardo - The founder of the British charity in 1866, to care for vulnerable children.
- Kingdom Brunel - A versatile and audacious engineer, responsible for the design of tunnels, bridges, railway lines and ships.
- Sarah Forbes Bonetta Davies - An African orphan who became the protégée of Queen Victoria.
- Ada Lovelace - A computing pioneer who studied and helped to refine the machine, determining an algorithm by which it could make complex calculations. Because of this, she is widely recognised as the world’s first computer programmer.
Year 5 Curriculum Letters:
Year 5 Learning Organisers & Reading Spines
Term 1: Science - Living Things and their Habitats / Geography - Rainforests
Term 2: Science - Living things & their habitats / History - Victorians / Reading Spine
Term 3: Science - Earth and Beyond / History - The Space Race
Term 4: Science - Forces / History - Ancient Greece
Term 5: Science - Properties and Changes of Materials / Geography - Natural Disasters
Term 6: Science - The Water Cycle / Science - Animals including humans / Geography - Rivers and Coasts
How can I support my child?
Numbots -Children use their same log-in details as for TTRS.