Welcome to Year 5 Japan!

Class teacher: Miss Faulkner-Fox

Learning support assistant: Mrs Allen

My name is Miss Faulkner-Fox and I am incredibly excited to be teaching Japan class. I am very passionate about teaching and enjoy exploring new topics and ideas with Japan class everyday. I am in charge of music across the school and lead the Young voices choir. My favourite subjects are music and history and I love incorporating music into my classroom daily. Outside of school I enjoy seeing live music across many different genres and I love travelling.

Key information

Please see below Japan's weekly timetable for Summer. This may be subject to change however, PE days will stay the same. PE days will be on Thursday and Fridays. On these days, children we need to be in their correct PE kit. Everyday, the children need to bring in their water bottles, planners and reading books. Please check your pupil planner every day for key messages. This also needs to be signed at home every week.

Homework

Homework will be set on a Monday and will be due the following Monday. This will consist of TimesTables RockStars, 5 weekly spellings, reading at home and a retrieval task based on the children's previous learning. Homework will be discussed on Mondays and children will write this in their pupil planners. Links to TTRS can be found at the link below and the log ins for these are in children's planners at the front.

TTRS

What are we learning in Japan class?

History

Groundbreaking Greeks

This project teaches children about developments and changes over six periods of ancient Greek history, focusing on the city state of Athens in the Classical age, and exploring the lasting legacy of ancient Greece.

Science

Properties and Changes of Materials

This project teaches children about the wider properties of materials and their uses. They learn about mixtures and how they can be separated using sieving, filtration and evaporation. They study reversible and irreversible changes, and use common indicators to identify irreversible changes.

Art

Mixed Media

This project teaches children about paper crafts, papermaking and collage techniques, including paper, fabric, mixed media and photo collage. They use their learning to create a final piece of small-scale, mixed media collage.

Music

Looping and remixing

In this project, the students will deepen their knowledge of music technology and will learn how to loop, remix and fragment. They will be exploring the many features of electronic music and what it is used for.

Reading

This half term, the students will exploring 'The Hobbit' by JRR Tolkien. They will also exploring a non-fiction set of instructions about the coke and mentos experiment!