Year 5 Class

Year 5 is taught by Mrs Marzetti and Mrs Sowden. During the course of the year, they visit Winchester Science Museum to support their Space topic. The planetarium is a real highlight! Also in science, there is a big emphasis on practical experiments. The children work collaboratively to plan, conduct, record and analyse what they have learned through their investigations. Other exciting events are a spy day to support a core text (Stormbreaker) and a half day drama workshop to launch ‘the Ancient Kingdom of Benin’ history topic. The children plan and create their own seasonal soup and Roman catapults in DT.

The core texts read in year 5 tackle some mature topics such as apartheid (Journey to Jo’burg) and animal rights (Tiger Tiger) as well as adventure stories (Stormbreaker and Who Let the Gods Out). These core texts encourage the children to consider authorial intent, character and setting description and how dialogue is woven into narration. Our addition of three ‘Opening Doors’ learning journeys across the year (gothic monsters, ghost detective Flaxman Low and portal stories) encourages the pupils to delve deeper into specific techniques such as the use of figurative language, onomatopoeia and pathetic fallacy to achieve a desired narrative effect.

The year 5 pupils continue to support their buddies and to contribute to school life in various other ways such as litter picking and volunteering in the dining hall at lunch time. In the summer term, they begin to look forward to the roles and responsibilities of year 6 and to put themselves forward for the things in which they are most interested. And of course, they can’t wait for the residential!