Spring term

English:
This term, all our English work will be based on our 'Wild Waters' topic. We will be writing a couple of fictional pieces of writing including a diary and character description and two non-fictional pieces including the Salmon Life Cycle and a persuasive speech on the environment.

Maths:
This term in Maths, we will be covering Fractions, Multiplication and Division and Decimals and Percentages.

Topic:
Our Autumn Term topic is Wild Waters. This is our Geography topic for the year and we will be learning about the uses and features of rivers, locating rivers of the world, comparing rivers and counties economies and finally discussing the imporance and purpose of longitude and latitude lines.

We will also we taking a trip to Headingley Water Treatment Works, where we will be finding out how our water is cleaned and processed prior to entering our homes.

Art:
This term we will be looking at four key artists and how they recreate landscapes. Some are more urban and others more rural. Our final piece will be an interpretation of one of these artists' work.

PE:
In the first half term, we will be doing:
- Gymnastics
- Basketball
In the second half term, we will be doing:
- Football
- Handball

• Spring term Phonics.docx
• Spring term Year 5.docx
• Spring term Year 4.docx

• IWPS Little things Spring.doc
• Maths.pdf

On the first day back, we had our Immersive Learning Day for our new Geography topic of Wild Waters. We completed many exciting activities including: mini life-raft building, a sandbag investigation, a news report on a flood, bridge building and some lovely river artwork. We had a great day and are really looking forward to our new topic for this term!

In Week 2 of our Spring Term, we had a visit from Yorkshire Water. They came in to complete a Lego building workshop, where we used Lego to build a drain unblocking robot and a coding app to move these robots on a map. In order to make sure we did this correctly, we had to work in teams to measure the distance they had to move, the direction they needed to go in and their start and finish positions on the map. It was a great day!!

Over this half term, we have been looking at landscape artists and how they create their work. Two artists we have been exploring are Kittie Jones and Saoirse Morgan, who both create their art outdoors, using natural materials to do so. This week, we tried to do the same. We used mud, grass, twigs, sticks, leaves and other items to create out artwork on the foggy school field.

In Science this term, we are learning all about Space. This week, we were exploring the Phases of the Moon and recreated these phases using Rich Tea biscuits. We carved out the shapes of them using a spoon and labelled each stage. It was quite a yummy Science lesson!