Year 5 - Term 4

Our unit of inquiry
The wonders of space and how technology has deepened our understanding

Our unit of inquiry will begin by exploring our key lines of inquiry through activities such as; designing our own space crafts or space rovers, exploring technology that is used to find out the secrets of space, to research what we already know about space and find unanswered questions, to understand the different planets and develop our own theories about life on other solar systems and planets and to look to the future of space travel and research.
Our core texts this term will be ‘Cosmic’ by Frank Cottrell Boyce. This book is about Liam, a boy who is too big for his boots, and his football strip, and his school blazer. But being super-sized height-wise has its advantages: he's the only eleven-year-old to ever ride the G-force-defying Cosmic rollercoaster - or to be offered the chance to drive a Porsche. Long-legged Liam makes a giant leap for boy-kind by competing with a group of adults for the chance to go into space. Is Liam the best boy for the job? Sometimes being big isn't all about being a grown-up. We will follow Liam’s adventure, using this to inspire our own writing.

In maths we will be continuing our learning of fractions, decimals and percentages. We will be building the connections between the three aspects, through comparison, ordering and finding equivalents. The children will be expected to, by the end of the term, order and compare fractions, decimals and percentages, to find equivalents, to add and subtract fractions of differing denominators and structures, to round decimals, to find percentages of amounts and to be able to understand how all three link. We will work on the children’s reasoning and problem-solving skills throughout the topic and creating real-life links for the skills they are developing.

You might like to join in with our learning by…

• Visiting the Science Museum in London
• Designing your own space mobile, which includes all of the planets in our solar system
• Researching the missions to the moon - to find which were successful and unsuccessful
• Reading books about space to gather knowledge and deepen your understanding
• Star gazing at night, to see if you can see any constellations in the sky
• Drawing images of the moon and stars at night

 
Thank you for your ongoing support.