Term 5

This term, our learning will focus around the fantastic text, 'Shackleton's Journey' which explains the incredible expedition of Ernest Shackleton across the Antarctic. Our school trip to the Greenwich Maritime Museum will have a focus around Shackleton too. The children will be able to learn more about the expedition and what the men endured. 

In our writing lessons, we are going to be writing biographies on one of the crew members from Shackleton's expedition, ensuring we use factual language, parenthesis and relative clauses. We will then move on to a short narrative, where the children will write a diary entry as their crew member. Next, we will be pretending to take on the role of Shackleton by writing a motivational speech to the crew. Finally, we will finish the term by writing haikus and limericks about mountains. 

In maths this term, we will begin with shape, which focuses on identifying and measuring angles, a review of regular and irregular polygons and 3-D shapes. Finally, we will be looking at position and direction. 

Throughout our learning this term, we will focus our geography learning around the topic of Mountains. We will be identifying the 7 summits of the world. how mountains are formed, describing the climate of mountains, to locate the UK's highest mountains and to study the Himalayas. 

In RE, our question is, 'What is life like for Jewish people in Britain?. Our theme in PSHE is 'Relationships'; in music our learning will focus around the song, 'Dancing in the street' by Martha and the Vandellas and science will be learning about Forces in Action. 

Our PE days are Thursday (Yoga), Friday (Cricket) for this term.

Just a little reminder that Mrs Cutts will be teaching Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday and Mrs Miles will be teaching on a Thursday and Friday. Should you need to contact us please email; jcutts@lyminge.kent.sch.uk.

Thank you so much for your continued support, 

Mrs Cutts, Mrs Miles, Mrs Bradley and Mrs Miller (The Year 5 Team)