Heathrow Primary School
Heathrow Primary School
Year 5
Autumn
During this topic, children explore and describe how force allows objects to fall towards the Earth. The children will investigate and identify the effects if air resistance, water resistance and friction. As well as this, children will explore how different mechanisms can allow smaller forces to have a greater effect.
Spring
This term, Year 5 will be learning about the different stages of human development. During this topic, children will look for the pattern in gestation periods and make predictions on gestation periods of different animals. Children will also observe the changes as we grow older and order the stages of human development. The children will learn about the mental and physical health of humans. In addition, they will also discuss about their own feelings and emotions and will research the ways to look after their mental and physical health.
Science Week - Packets for the Planet
In our first ‘Packets for the Planet’ lesson, the children explored the term ‘food miles’, looking at where different food comes from, and how long it takes to get to our local stores. Then, the children investigated different ways that we preserve food and the environmental impact of different containers or wrappings. The children used this knowledge to create bees wax cloths. By spreading and melting bees wax pellets onto a cotton material, the cloth once cool could to be used to preserve foods for longer. In our third lesson, we conducted a comparative test to see which size packet of crisps produced the least food waste and the least packaging. This was identified once the children used their knowledge of calculating area to find out the grams per cm² of packaging. In our fourth lesson, the children carried out another comparative test to see which method of packaging would be best to preserve crisps and keep them crunchy. These crisps had been preserved at the end of the third lesson, and removing the packaging during the fourth lesson allowed the children to touch and taste the product to record their discoveries. Finally, the children used their findings over the previous lessons to design a new crisp container and annotated its features. They discussed and explained their products benefits and why they think it would reduce food waste and environmental impact.
Spring 2 - LIVING THINGS AND THEIR HABITATS
This term, Year 5 will use their previous knowledge of life cycles to study the life cycles of different mammals, amphibians, birds and insects, as well as discussing the changes of humans as they develop to old age. In the second lesson, children will use their classification skills to classify the characteristics of living things using a Venn diagram. Next, they will learn about Jane Goodall’s investigation on chimpanzees, and research information about a chosen animal. They will also work scientifically to dissect and label the parts of a flower, exploring how flowers asexually reproduce. Also, the children will explore how different plants reproduce asexually through runners, bulbs and tubers, predicting how other plants may reproduce. In the fifth lesson, year 5 will conduct an investigation to see how cuttings from a parent plant could grow into a new plant. Lastly, year 5 will look at the gestation periods of different mammals, and show their findings on a bar graph.
- Attitude
- Achievement
- Aspiration