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Revelstoke Class
Year 5 + 6 Class
Class Teachers: Mrs Dixon + Mrs McKinnon
Teaching Assistants: Mrs Harvey + Mrs Godfrey
Spring Term
Happy New Year! We hope you have had a wonderful Christmas holiday. This term we have a range of exciting learning opportunities to take part in. Please see below for the areas we will be covering in each subject this half term:
PE: Gymnastics, OAA, rugby and hockey
Geography: Grand Canyon
Science: Properties and changes of materials
DT: Structures
Art: Ancient Maya Art
ICT: Computer aided design (CAD)
History: Ancient Maya
Literacy: Just So stories, newspapers and narrative poems
Spanish: How to say what the weather is like
Music: Learning and performing 'The Fresh Prince of Belair' with instruments
PSHE: Keeping Safe
RE: Salvation
At the end of each week, we will send home a weekly summary detailing specific skills and coverage for that week.
Forest Schools
This week we learnt about forces including air resistance, friction and gravity.
Autumn Term
A very warm welcome back to school Revelstoke Class! We hope you have had a wonderful summer break. This term we have a range of exciting learning opportunities to take part in. Please see below for the areas we will be covering in each subject this half term:
PE: Gymnastics and Netball
Geography: Extreme Earth
Science: Forces
DT: Food technology (linked to Forest Schools and cooking on an open fire)
Art: Developing formal elements of art
ICT: Exploring how messages are sent to/from space (including the study of binary and Mars rovers)
History: Analysing different sources of evidence
Literacy: The Promise (poetry and diary writing), recounts, cinquains
Spanish: How to say the date
Music: How to play a ukulele
PSHE: Me and my relationships
RE: Kingdom of God
At the end of each week, we will send home a weekly summary detailing specific skills and coverage for that week.
Forest Schools
This term, we will be learning to build a fire in small groups and then using our DT skills to plan, prepare and cook food on it! Keep checking back for photographs and updates on how we are getting on!
Week 1:
We made excellent use of our new Forest School classroom as it poured down with rain for the entire session! Undeterred, the children worked hard to collect all of the resources they needed to create a fire, re-visiting learning from previous years. We then lit a class fire and toasted apples and marshmellows!
Week 2
With the weather much improved, the children were able to collect the resources to build and light their own small group fires. They roasted apples with sugar to make toffee apples!
Week 3
This week we were much slicker at collecting, making and lighting our fires, showing excellent progress, and enabling us to bake (and eat) lemon cakes!
Whole day Forest School
We had another wild and windy forest school session today! We built fires and cooked a range of culinary delights: sweet and savoury breads, cheesy nachos and smores! We also began planting the new saplings for the forest and created seed bombs to help dispersal.
Harry Potter Day
As inspiration for our up-coming recount writing, we held a KS2 Harry Potter day! The children came to school dressed-up and ready for a day at Hogwarts. First, they were placed into houses by the sorting hat and then they took part in a variety of magical lessons: Care of Magical Creatures, Quidditch, Charms and Potions. Check back here in a few weeks to read about the events of the day in more detail in our recount writing!
Year 5 Carswell Farm
We went to Carswell Farm to take part in an autumn forage and learn about farming through history. We collected blackberries, sloes, hawthorns and rose-hips and made a cordial as well as a range of leaves to make salads and tea! We enjoyed eating the 'fruits of our labour'!
