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Year 5

Essential Learning Experiences

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As part of our Creative Curriculum at Landywood, children learn through termly or half termly topics. These topics have been carefully selected and planned by our teachers to ensure they engage the children in learning and maximise opportunities available to us.

 

As part of these topics, we also plan ‘Essential Learning Experiences’ (ELEs). These may be day trips out of school, visitors that come into our school or school-based events. We have carefully designed our ELE programme to ensure that each year group has a balance of visits and visitors to provide the children with a variety of learning opportunities.

 

ELE’s can provide an exciting launch to a topic or an opportunity for children to draw a conclusion and apply their previous learning. We will ensure that at least three ELE’s are organised for each class throughout the year.

 

To make it easier for all families, following feedback from parents, we will ask for each ELE payment individually. As you will appreciate, some visits are more expensive than others. Given the rising fuel costs, the coach hire costs have significantly increased. The total amount given to parents covers the entrance costs, travel costs, insurance and any other related costs. Parents can choose to pay the total amount in September, or can pay it in installments over the course of the year using our new electronic payment system. Payment information is available on Scopay.
 
Our Exciting ELE's are:
 
Autumn: The Stone Age Visitor- £7
Spring: Wroxeter Roman City- £15
Summer: The Think Tank- £14.50

Our themes that we are studying this year are:-

From Stone Age to Iron Age

South America

Italy and The Romans

Amazing Earth

 

ELEs 2025-2026:

Autumn  - The Stone Age experience    

Spring  - Wroexter City

Summer  - The Think Tank

Darcey- I enjoyed looking at how the items changed from stone age to iron age in particular the kettle
Rowan - I learned how to make felt from sheep's wool. It was so much fun!
Oliver - I enjoyed us all fitting in the bath. The big bath fit over 12 people in!
Jess - I learned that to clean your bum, you had to use a sponge on a stick then clean the stick with water and vinegar to disinfect the stick

Leo- We found it really fun learning about how the planets orbit the sun. The Earth and Space workshop was really good!

Sophia- I really enjoyed learning about how to look after the planet. 

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