Shaw-cum-Donnington C.E. Primary

Happy New Year Badgers.  This term, children will study The Vikings in History and explore The United Kingdom in Geography.  As artists, children will be focusing on developing their painting skills with portraits and working with mechanical systems in DT to create a moving toy.  In Science, we will be exploring properties and changes of materials and forces.  In RE we will be exploring saints as encouraging role models and the significance of the resurrection for Christians.  English will have a text focus on Odd and The Frost Giants and The Arrival.  Writing genres will include: narrative stories, instructions, prequels, persuasive speech and poetry.  Maths will focus on area, perimeter, volume, statistics and ratio.

PE days are Wednesdays and Fridays.  Year 5 will also have swimming on Thursdays.  Badgers will need to come to school dressed in their PE kit please.

Homework is set on Fridays and should be handed in on Wednesdays.  Spellings and times tables will be tested on Fridays and Reading Journals will be collected in every Thursday. Badgers all have their own Homework Diary to help them organise their school week and keep track of key dates and homework set.

For further information regarding the full curriculum for this term, please click on the timetable and knowledge organisers below.  The curriculum overview shows all of our learning for two years