Welcome to the Year 5 Autumn Term homepage
Writing
We will be writing a range of fiction and non-fiction this term including: setting descriptions, narratives, persuasive letters, reports and biographies.
Reading
This half term we will be sharing a range of different books and developing our understanding of vocabulary.
The books we will be reading are:
The Infinite Lives of Maisie Day by Christopher Edge
Eyewitness- Planets
The War of the Worlds- HG Wells
A poem for Every Night of the Year
The Storm Keeper's Island by Catherine Doyle
The Nowhere Emporium by Ross Mackenzie
Skysong by Abi Elphinstone
Wonderland Alice in Poetry
D and T
Food and Nutrition
History / Geography
South America
Anglo Saxons
Science
Properties & changes of materials- Reversible and Irreversible changes
Art
Typography and Maps
Artists: Louise Fili, Grayson Perry, Paula Scher
Homework
Weekly homework will be a mixture of arithmetic, reading and SPaG (see homework section)