Curriculum Overview- What is our place in the universe? What lies beyond the earth? We know that when we look up at our sky, we will see the Sun, the Moon and the stars. We take them for granted. But why are they there? What do they do? How do they affect the Earth? Astronomy, like all sciences, is about asking questions. By becoming space explorers, we can find out more about our solar system and the deeper mysteries of the universe.

As aspirational artists, the children will explore the techniques of Marbling and charcoal to create lunar landscapes. We will consider how the best ways to share our art with others.

Maths

Respect Class have been incredibly aspirational with their number maths this new term. We have been exploring our existing knowledge and busily exploring the number system to one million! We have also really enjoyed using our new workbooks.

Earth and Beyond

Our exploration of earth and beyond has extended from Galileo and Copernicus to modern scientific discoveries that explain the movement of the planets in our galaxy. It is really fascinating to learn more about our universe.

The Green Book

Our class reader this term is ‘The Green Book’ by Jill Patton Walsh. As they land on the Planet Shine in an escape from the dying Earth, we have been busy writing about what our planet might look like using complex sentence descriptions. Very imaginative work has been generated. Keep it up!!

Earth & Beyond

Respect class have had a fabulous start to the new school year! All the children have been responsible, super-respectful and hopefully happy hippos as they embark on a learning packed Year 5.

We have started off our new topic, Earth and Beyond, and we have been amazed at how excited and knowledgeable the children already are. We have researched, painted and discussed the different planets in our solar system. Furthermore, we can explain why the Earth is a sphere and why our solar system is heliocentric and not geocentric! Just ask us!!