This term’s topic is all about our health and wellbeing. We will be covering the following areas:-

Literacy Languages and Communication

• Write an explanation text (how the heart pumps blood around the body)
• Record a podcast
• Write a recipe (instruction text) of a healthy food
• Write a fact file about an unusual sport
• Write a biography of a famous sports person
• Write a narrative
• Vocabulary about the body in Welsh and Spanish.

Mathematics and Numeracy

• angles, height, triangles and angle of elevation
• convert between km and miles, and between £ and €
• measure weight of bike, distance on playground, length of tyre and spokes, time taken to cycle and heart rate
• probability of winner being Welsh, English, French, British, European
• mean, median and mode of race data     design a map to scale
• compare numbers up to 1 million    budget and compare prices
• data from a sleep app, multiply by days, weeks, years etc 
• written and mental multiplication and division
• fractions, mixed numbers and improper fractions
• addition and subtraction including money
• coordinates, 2D shapes and translations
• multiply and divide fractions

Humanities

• Research the history of the Olympics / other sporting events
• Geography of Austria and Switzerland (Women’s Euros)
• Mountains locally /around the UK
• History of medicine
• Sikhism, the 5 K’s, sacred stories and how they show commitment to God.

Expressive Arts

• Draw and label body organs, e.g. eye, whole body
• Sculpture of the body
• Crick Voices concert
• Draw and label food chains, what drugs do to the body, the digestive system.

Science and Technology

• Find out about the important organs of the body
• Food chain in the UK, link to farming and local produce
• Parts of the brain
• how do medicines work?
• Muscle groups in the body
• The effect of drugs on the body
• Why do we need sleep?
• Dissect a heart.
• Present work using Slides/PowerPoint.
• Microbits – fitness tracker
• heart rate

Health and Wellbeing

• Jigsaw – Healthy Me, Changing Me
• dangers of drugs, drink and substance misuse for athletes, effects of vaping and addiction
• positives of active living
• mental health and yoga
• healthy foods and diet (food groups)
• origin of food – different countries and food miles
• the beep test

As far as other experiences go this term, there will also be the Hay Festival, Sports Day, residential trips, a cricket tournament, the Crick Voices concert and the Digital Wizards being involved in a cluster sharing event in CHS. Year 6 will also have the additional experiences of transition days, basketball coaching and a Leavers Concert/Assembly.

We are very aware of the costs of trips, especially this academic year with Young Voices in January and a residential in the summer but if the opportunity arises for an educational visit, we will aim to make it as affordable as possible.

Spelling lists for the term are already on Google Classroom. Children can access this by using their Hwb email.

Please could you also help your child with learning their times tables. By Year 5, they should know all the times tables up to 12.

If you have any information, knowledge or interesting artefacts about our topic and you are happy to share this with the children, then please get in touch.