Year 5

Welcome to Year 5! 

We will update this Year Group page regularly with details of curriculum subjects, topics and photos for our galleries.

Our Year 5 Team this year are:

Mrs Warren - class teacher         email - swarren@chickerell.dorset.sch.uk 

Miss Hulland - class teacher       email - d.hulland@chickerell.dorset.sch.uk 

Mrs Capaldi - 5SWa teaching assistant

Mrs Weeden - 5DH teaching assistant

Miss Heslop - 5SWa teaching assistant

Miss Marsden - 5DH teaching assistant

Please continue to watch this space for further details. Do not hesitate to contact us should you need to.

As of October 2021, we have begun to use 'Cornerstones' curriculum throughout the school so that we can ensure a solid progressions of skills and knowledge acquisition in the foundation subjects, and Science and English particularly.

What is the Cornerstones Curriculum? 

The Cornerstones Curriculum is a creative and thematic approach to learning that is mapped to the 2014 primary national curriculum to ensure comprehensive coverage of national expectations. It is based on a child-centred pedagogy called The Four Cornerstones and is delivered through Imaginative Learning Projects (ILPs) and Knowledge Rich Projects (KRPs), which provide a rich menu of exciting and motivating learning activities that make creative links between all aspects of children’s learning. We believe children learn better when they are encouraged to use their imagination and apply their learning to engaging contexts. Our curriculum provides many learning challenges throughout the academic year that require children to solve problems, apply themselves creatively and express their knowledge and understanding effectively. Cornerstones also provide a rigorous skills and knowledge framework that outlines the end of year expectations in all subjects. These skills and knowledge are tied to activities and are age-related .

SPELLING

In class, we are learning to spell words that have hyphens. The children will have one week to learn their spellings and will be tested in school on Friday 9th June.

We will also be helping the children to learn these words in school and they are available on Spelling Shed to practise at home.