Morpurgo Class Year 5
Welcome to Morpurgo Class!
Welcome to our new class page where you will be able to find out all about what we do in Morpurgo class!
Year 5 will return to school on Thursday 3rd September 2020. Our start time will be 8:55 am and school will end at 3:20 pm each day. Your entrance and exit to school will be through Year 5 door.
All Year 5 children will return to school on Monday 8th March 2021. Our start time will be 8:45 am and school will end at 3:15 pm each day. Your entrance and exit to school will be through Year 5 door.
Below you will be able to see all sorts of things including: our term timetable, your termly Brain-builder task, pictures of what we get up to in class and much more.
Year 5 will be participating in PE lessons on Wednesdays. Please ensure your child come into school on that day only wearing a dark coloured tracksuit and trainers to avoid any changing in school. Thanks
Looking forward to seeing everyone in school!
Mrs Pooley and Miss Willson 
If your child is feeling worried about returning to school after Lockdown have a look at our resources below.
Timetable and Yearly Overview
Brain Builder
Sports Week
Art in the style of Paul Klee
3D Shapes
Making quadrilaterals with straws
Using our spinners to estimate and measure angles.
Term 6 Medium Term Plans
Term 5 Medium Term Plans
Story Jars
Number Day
Exploring decimal numbers
World War II Artefacts
Should children have been evacuated or not during World War II?
Exploring shadows
Linking with North Borough Primary School
Term 4
Where is Gobi Desert?
Stations of the Cross
Counting up and down in fractions
Exploring Equivalent Fractions
Term 3 Medium Term Plans
Forces
Multiplication
The London Eye Mystery
Claude Monet
Term 2 Medium Term Plans
Home-learning Term 2
Merry Christmas from all of us!
Discussing the true meaning of Christmas
Semaphore Code
Counting in 4s, 5s, 6s and 10s
Using dice and number cards to make factor pairs
Poetry performance on the feelings of Shackleton and his crew members at the embarkment of their journey to Antarctica.
We used natural materials to make our Good Luck charms for Shackleton and his crew members.
Living things and their habitats - we have been looking at the living things found on our school grounds and at which stage of the life cycle they were at.
Term 1 Medium Term Plans
Victorian Day
Participating in an online Houses of Parliament session
Young Scientists of Year 5
Freeze frames
Victorian Timeline
Rochester Cathedral - Museum of the Moon
London Eye
Valentine's Disco
Growth Day
Number Day
Safer Internet Day
Matching Mixed numbers to Improper fractions
Celebrating French festival of La Chandeleur (Candlemas), also known as Fete de la Lumiere (Holiday of the light) and Jour des crepes (Day of the crepes). This festival is celebrated every year on 2nd February in France.
Forces - Water Resistance
Forces: Air Resistance
Using an Atlas to find the major cities of UK
Using dictionaries to find the meanings
Drama and Role Play
Conscience Alley: Should Kat and Ted lie or tell the truth?
Christmas in Year 5
Trip to Horton Kirby
Bollywood Day
Growth Mindset - Matching the statements
Place Value
Which material is a good conductor of heat?
Victorian timeline
Conscience Alley - Should Jim leave the workhouse or stay?
Role Play as characters from Street Child
Readers' Theatre
