Ireland Wood Primary School
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Pupils  »  Year 5  »  Spring

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
Outdoor Learning - Art

On a sunny afternoon in our Art lesson, we took our resources and sketch books outside to sketch a landscape image using the environment around us. We decided on what we wanted to draw, picked the materials we wanted to use and created some brilliant artwork.

Mission to Mars!

This term in our Space topic, we carried out a group mission to Mars. We had to research what foods we would need, research what resources we will take, plan out a route around the surface of Mars, investigate how tall one of the deepest caverns on Mars is and understand how to spend our time on the spacecraft whilst remining healthy. It was a very fun lesson, and we learnt so much!