Carlton Colville Primary School

This summer term, we will be exploring the topic ‘Our World’. We will be jumping into our learning by exploring biomes from around the world, as well as paying particularly close attention to our own biome we live in here in England. By creating terrariums, we will be able to see what our biome looks like compared to others.
This geography focused topic will also have us exploring other countries around the world and developing a deeper understanding of climate zones, as well as other geographic zones and human geography, linking it to land use and distribution of natural resources. From here, we will also be able to explore renewable resources and look at the effects of pollution and waste on our environment and our world.
In literacy, we will be reading a range of texts involving travel, other cultures around the world and more. This will lead into opportunities to write as we explore an environmental story and create our own poetry based on pollution in our world.
In maths, we will be continuing our learning in fractions, decimals and percentages before studying geometry, shape and measures.

Spring 2 2024

This half term, we will be continuing to get stuck into our topic of democracy and the question “Who’s the boss?”. Starting with Henry VIII and traveling through to the present day, we will be learning all about democracy in Great Britain and how laws are debated and created. In maths, we will begin to explore fractions, percentages and decimals. In literacy, we will be learning to write a discussion text linked to our class book ‘Not Bad for a Bad Lad’.

Spring 1 2024

We hope you had a great Christmas and wish you a Happy New Year!
This term our learning will be focused on Democracy. Please see our curriculum overview, above, for more information. The children will be rehearsing our Democracy production throughout the term and will perform to parents as part of our fabulous finish
Please speak to your child's class teacher if you have any questions or would like to know more about the intended Year 5 learning this term.

The Year 5 Team

Welcome to Year 5!

We hope that you have had a lovely summer holiday and are fully refreshed ready to start the Autumn term.

We are starting off the year with “Space – The Final Frontier”. Our sparkling start will involve exploring what life is like for an astronaut. There are many exciting learning opportunities for the children to explore and delve into within this first topic. We will learn about space, planets, stars, our solar system and how day and night occurs. We are also hoping to invite a STEM ambassador in to work with us.In maths, we will be building on the children’s existing knowledge of number and place value before moving on to addition and subtraction. Children have been provided with a maths study guide which can be used in the classroom and at home to support learning.  We will be setting My Maths home learning every Tuesday and comprehension each week, as well as expecting the children to read 4 times a week.

The Year 5 Team

We hope you had a great Christmas and wish you a Happy New Year!

This term our learning will be focused on Democracy. Please see our curriculum overview, above, for more information. At the end of the Spring term the children will be performing a Democracy production which will be part of our fabulous finish!

Please speak to your child's class teacher if you have any questions or would like to know more about the intended Year 5 learning this term.

The Year 5 Team

We hope that you have had a lovely summer holiday and are fully refreshed ready to start the Autumn term.

We are starting off the year with “Space – The Final Frontier”. There are many exciting learning opportunities for the children to explore and delve into within this first topic. We will learn about space, planets, stars, our solar system and how day and night occurs. We will also be carrying out an in-depth Science investigation linked to shadows. We are also hoping to invite a STEM ambassador in to work with us.

In maths, we will be building on the children’s existing knowledge of number and place value before moving on to addition and subtraction. Children have been provided with a maths study guide which can be used in the classroom and at home to support learning. 

We will be setting My Maths home learning every Tuesday and comprehension each week, as well as expecting the children to read 4 times a week.

The Year 5 Team