Year 5

Class Teacher: Mr Cook

Teaching Assistant: Mrs Phillips

Teaching Support: Mrs Manns

Class Governor: Mr R. Arthur

PTFA Link: Mrs Collins and Mrs Heaton 

Welcome to Year 5

Welcome to Year Five. We hope you had a lovely half term break and we look forward to continuing your learning journey during your last year at Harvington First School.

Key information:

Your message book and reading book, PE kits and a water bottle need to be in school everyday.

Homework will be set on a Friday and needs to be in on the following Thursday at 9am.

Your spellings will be sent home at the start of each half term.

Our theme question is 'Who Inspires Me?'

We will be learning about architects, artists and composers who can give us inspiration.

Key Vocabulary:

observation

post-impressionist 

still life 

composer

modern period

architect

mosaic 

 Composer

Sergei Prokofiev was a Russian composer and one of his most famous musical stories was Peter and Wolf.  To find out about the composer click on his picture.

Artist

Paul Cezanne was a French post-impressionist painter.

To find out more about Cezanne click on his picture.

These are some of his paintings:

 Architect

Antoni Gaudi was a Spanish Architect.  Most of his designs are located in Barcelona.

Click on his picture to view some of his designs.

This is one of his famous designs-La Sagrada Familia 

In science we will be learning about Forces and Space: Unbalanced Forces

Watch this video to find out more.

Key Vocabulary

friction

balanced

unbalanced

load

distance

air resistance

water resistance

Remember to spend time on Times Table Rock Stars each day!

If you need any extra help with your times tables then use MyMaths and Purple Mash to help you.

Click on the images below to support your learning at home using My Maths.

Our class author is Michael Morpurgo.

Click on the picture of him to see his website.

Have you read any of his books?

Which book is your favourite?