Year 5 - Kestrels
Welcome to Kestrels
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July 2020 - Transition Booklet
September 2020 - Welcome to Year 5 Presentation
Kestrels class, well where do we start...we don't always find it easy but we will give it a go.
As a class, we are kind-hearted, sensible and enthusiastic, with a real love of learning. Our determination is always on show and we always try hard and want to improve. While doing this we help each other and show great team work. We are responsible, mature and respectful to others.
We love a chat and can make friends with anyone.
If you want to find out more, please look at our page.
Knowledge Organiser - Autumn Term
Books we are currently reading in school
In ‘The Explorer’, four children find themselves stranded in the Amazon Rainforest after their plane crashes. They learn how to survive as they begin their journey home. Along the way they discover that someone else may have travelled on the same route. Will this person be a friend or foe?
In ‘Sands of the Scorpion’, a young explorer and his friend find themselves stranded in the Sahara Desert. They have to battle snakes, scorpions and the merciless rays of the sun in order to find their way home.
‘Moon Man’ is the story of the man in moon outwitting the police in several escapades on Earth with a little help along the way.
In ‘The Jamie Drake Equation’, Jamie’s dad is an astronaut currently on the International Space Station and he is about to embark on an important spacewalk. Jamie finds himself on the receiving end of an alien transmission and may have to embark on his own important mission.
In ‘Voices in the Park’, four different voices tell their own versions of the same walk in the park. The radically different perspectives give a fascinating depth to a simple story which explores themes such as alienation and friendship.
In ‘Anneli the Art Hater’, Anneli hates art. She doesn’t like looking at it or thinking about it. However, hidden behind a door in her house, Anneli finds a painting that draws her into an extraordinary story.
‘Goodnight Mr Tom’ is the story of a young evacuee and the old man he stays with. Willie Beech is a sad, deprived child who flourishes under the care of old Tom Oakley. However, his new-found happiness is shattered by a summons back to London. Tom worries when he doesn’t hear from Willie so heads to London to find him.
‘Voices from the Second World War’ is a powerful, moving collection of first-person accounts of the Second World War. Many of the interviews were conducted by children. Some of the contributors include: a rear-gunner who took part in sixty bombing raids, a Jewish woman who played in the orchestra at Auschwitz and a Japanese man who survived Hiroshima.
Recommended Reads!
Independent reading
The Polar Bear Explorer's Club (series) by Alex Bell
Iguana Boy by James Bishop
King Kong by Anthony Browne
The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
Artemis Fowl series by Eoin Colfer
The Storm Keepers Island by Catherine Doyle
The Infinite Lives of Maisie Day by Christoper Edge
Who let the Gods Out by Maz Evas
Flour Babies by Anne Fine
The Girl with the Lost Smile by Miranda Hart
Storm Breaker by Anthony Horowitz
The Switch by Anthony Horowitz
A Galaxy of Her Own by Libby Jackson
Out of the Ashes by Michael Morpurgo
My Parents are Driving Me Crazy by Pete Johnson
The Turbulent Term of Tyke Tyler by Gene Kemp
Beetle Boy by M G Leonard
The Ghost of Thomas Kempe by Penelope Lively
The Fastest Boy in the World by Elizabeth Lord
Silly Verse for Kids by Spike Milligan
Private Peaceful by Michael Morpurgo
Five Children and It by E Nesbit
Inkling by Kenneth Opel
I Funny by James Patterson
The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents by Terry Pratchett
I was a Rat by Philip Pullman
The Boy at the Back of the Class by Onjali Q Rauf
Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan
The Wolf Wilder by Katherine Rundell
The Silver Sword by Ian Serrailler
Bloom by Nicola Skinner
The Lady of Shalott by Alfred Lord Tennyson
The Iliad and the Odyssey by Marcia Williams
Challenge books for year 5
Clockwork by Philip Pullman
Pig Heart Boy by Malorie Blackman
Skellig by David Almond
The Borrowers by Mary Norton
Kensuke’s Kingdom by Michael Morpurgo
Varjak Paw by S F Said
Journey to Jo’burg by Beverley Naidoo
Watership Down by Richard Adams
The Phoenix and the Carpet by E Nesbit
Hacker by Malorie Blackman
Krindlekrax by Philip Ridley
The Indian in the Cupboard by Lynne Reid Banks
Goggle Eyes by Anne Fine
Cloud Busting by Malorie Blackman
Wizard Once by Cressida Cowell
How to train your Dragon series by Cressida Cowell