Welcome to Glanvill Class!

      Miss Taylor - Class Teacher                                                Mrs Woollard - Teaching Assistant

In Glanvill, our learning is challenging, energetic and fascinating, with a strong focus on being creative and making connections across curriculums and topics. In Year 5, we develop our independence and celebrate our tenacity. We will be captivated by what we're reading and will become experts in how our learning links to our termly topics. 

In Glanvill, we are a team; we will work together to achieve throughout our year together. Now that we are in Upper Key Stage 2, we are secure in how to demonstrate our school values and ASTONishing Learner Attributes. Everyone in our class brings a variety of special skills which help us all to grow our talents and support others. We will support our children to discover and develop through all our subjects, whether in reading, maths, writing, art, science and so on! 

Every child in Year 5 will start learning a brass instrument. We will learn how to play one of the brass instruments (cornet, euphonium, French horn and the clarinet) to develop our understanding of tempo, notation, control and improvisation. Glanvill will bring this together with an end of year performance. We can't wait to see where growing our musical talents will take us!

Together we study two whole class novels each half-term linked to our termly topics. We also have a class book that we listen to during story time and explore it in depth during Guided Reading.

Our learning journey:

Term 1:

This term our topic is 'What a wonderful world!'. We will explore the invisible lines across the globe, along with the different climate and time zones and how to interpret data. As we are geographers, our art will be focused on creating art inspired by topography and the shape of the landscape. To enrich this, we will be visiting The White Horse.

'Orphans of the Tide' will be our main text this term, which will inspire us in our writing lessons. In maths, our focus areas for this term include counting and place value with numbers up to 1,000,000, addition/subtraction of numbers within 1,000,000 with and without regrouping, multiplying and dividing by 10, 100 and 1,000. We will continue consolidating other areas of the Maths curriculum through our daily Maths Meetings.