Year 5 have begun their science topic of Earth And Space. The children had lots of facts to share with each other and over the topic we will be able to clarify some of these ideas.

The children have some rocket words which are key topic words – these will be reviewed each lesson.

Our rocket words for this topic are:

Heliocentric

Geocentric

Nicolous Copernicus

Ptolemy

Orbit

Ask Kestrels if they can explain them to you. We are trying to remember them and their definitions.

We also looked at the planets in the Solar System. We have learnt a mnemonic to help remember the order of the planets. It is:

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Have a look at Jessica’s super neat work.