Year 5 & Year 6 (Crich, Eyam & Darley Dale)

Welcome.

Welcome to Year 5 & Year 6. We have three, parallel mixed age classes: Eyam, Darley Dale and Crich. Please take a look at the information below to find out what we will be learning about this half term, key days of the week, and do check out our gallery!

Thank you,

Mrs Collis, Miss Pratt and Miss Donnelly.

Key days each week.

	Crich	Eyam	Darley Dale
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday	Book Day (a chance to change your reading book)
Thursday	PE (wear you PE kit to school)	Swimming Please wear your school uniform as usual, bringing your swimming kit to change into.	Swimming Please wear your school uniform as usual, bringing your swimming kit to change into.
		Spelling Test
Friday	Spelling Test	Book Day (a chance to change your reading book)	Book Day (a chance to change your reading book)
			Spelling Test

What are we learning this half term?

This half term we are continuing our Geography focus as we delve into the world of Global Trade. We will be learning about the Fair Trade Foundation and their work to make Global Trade fair for all.

In English, we are sticking with our wolf theme from last half term and we are going to use the book ‘The Wolves in the Walls’ written by Neil Gaiman and illustrated by Dave McKean as our inspiration. We will be writing our own version of this quirky story.

In RE we will continue our focus on the expression of faith through Art and Architecture, and through Science, we will be building on our learning in Y3/4 on classification, developing our ability to articulate why a particular organism is classified in a particular way.

In Maths, Y5 will be learning about decimals and percentages, and how we can represent fractions in this way. We will then move on to extend our understanding of perimeter and area by investigating shapes other than squares and rectangles. In Y6, the focus is also on decimals & percentages, shape (including perimeter, area and also volume), before moving onto statistics where the focus in on interpreting data.

Swimming continues for Eyam and Darley Dale. Remember, you wear uniform to school as usual and change for swimming. For Crich, we will continue with PE in school: so wear your PE kits on Thursday Crich!

What are we reading this half term?

Author of the term:	Dr Dominic Walliman
About the author:	Hi I'm Dominic Walliman, youtuber, science writer and physicist. I produce the YouTube channel Domain of Science and write the Professor Astro Cat science books for youngsters. I have a PhD in quantum device physics and used to work on quantum computers. I love learning about science and finding fun ways to tell other people about the things I learn.
We are are reading: