Year Five Curriculum
English
- Oliver Twist – suspense writing
- Charles Dickens – biography
- Rebecca Riots – news reports
- Sherlock Holmes – mystery stories
Maths
- Place Value and Number
History
- Victorians – factory conditions, child labour, Chartists
- Civil Rights – Suffragettes, USA in 1950s
Science
- Forces
- Earth and Space – Out of this World
PSHCE
- Children’s Rights
- Healthy Living
- Emotional Wellbeing
French
- Describing a city
- Writing to pen pals
Music
- Composition and the dimensions of music – dynamics, tempo, pitch
Computing
- E-Safety and Digital Citizenship
- We are Programmers
R.E.
- Belief in Action – the power of temptation; Adam and
- Eve’s betrayal of God; Jonah; positive forces in life
P.E.
- Dance with Delene Gordon (Wednesdays)
- Gymnastics (Thursdays)
Trips
- Ragged School Workshop
- Grimm’s Fairy Tales at the Unicorn Theatre – 23rd November
Reading
Please ensure your child brings their reading book every day and you read as often as you can with them.
Assemblies and Shows
- December 5th – dance show
- Assemblies: Peggotty – 13th Nov, Micawber – 20th Nov,
