Year 5
Spring Term
Overview of Learning
English
Destination Reader
Children will read and analyse The Boy at the Back of the Class as well as other seen and unseen texts
Narrative
Traditional tales- Greek myths
Children will look at techniques used by authors to create characterisation. They will write their own adapted Greek myth.
Explanation
Children will write an explanation text explaining what the Great Barrier Reef is and why it (our oceans) are struggling.
Report
Children will write a non-chronological on the Great Barrier Reef, with a particular focus on its decline.
Instructions
Children will write a set of instructions how to protect the Great Barrier Reef.
Autobiography
As part of our whole school migration project, children will write an autobiography in role of a key migrant.
Science
Materials: Mixtures and separation
Children will learn about mixtures, sieving, filtering, solutions, dissolving and evaporating through a range of practical activities. They will carry out research using a range of secondary sources; draw and annotate diagrams to explain concepts; identify testable questions and answer them; make observations about solutions; and plan fair tests with consideration of variables and measurements.
Materials: Properties and changes
Children will determine the hardness, transparency and conductivity of different materials and link these to their uses. They will demonstrate reversible and irreversible changes (burning and rusting; mixing).
Maths
Fractions and decimals
Children will write, order and compare decimals; round decimals to the nearest whole number; represent, identify, name, write, order and compare fractions (including improper and mixed numbers); and calculate fractions of amounts.
Angles
Children will classify, compare and order angles; measure a draw angles with
a protractor; understand and use angle facts to calculate missing angles.
Fractions and percentages
Children will add, subtract fractions with denominators that are multiples of the same number; multiply fractions (and mixed numbers) by a whole number; explore percentage, decimal, fractions equivalence.
Transformations
Children will plot coordinates in all four quadrants; identify, describe and represent the position of a shape following a reflection or translation; and calculate intervals across zero as a context for negative numbers.
Year 5
Spring Term
Overview of Learning
Computing
Data Handling: Mars Rover
Children will explore how messages can be sent by binary code, they will read binary up to eight characters and carry out binary calculations.
Programming: Micro:bit
Children will continue to develop their programming skills by tinkering with a micro:bit. They will programme an animation, recognise coding structures and finally create a programme for a specific task (a pedometer).
French
Shopping
Children will learn about French money and number as well as different foods (and quantities) in French. They will learn to apply changes in sound caused by accents when speaking. They will perform a short story in French.
French speaking world
Children will learn to read and give directions in French. They will identify features of countries and climate-data from the French-speaking world. They will ask and answer questions about different countries in the French-speaking world.
RE
We will answer the following questions in our RE lessons:
Judaism
Why is the Torah so important to Jewish people?
Christianity
Creation and science, conflicting or complementary?
History
The Ancient Greeks
Children will learn about Ancient Greek life, their achievements and their influence on the Western world. They will explore why they had such a long and dramatic legacy as well as working as history detectives to piece together the fragments from the past.
Migration (whole school project)
Children will look at the migration of people between the time period of 1948 and 1971. Children will understand that migration presents both opportunities and challenges for societies, communities and individuals and that migration alters the structure of families.
PE
Yoga
Children will learn about mindfulness and body awareness. They learn yoga poses and techniques to improve well being by building strength, flexibility and balance.
Tag Rugby
Dodgeball
Basketball
The children will learn skills such as: defending; attacking; throwing; catching; running; and dodging.
PSHE
Health and Wellbeing
Children will learn the Importance of sleep, rest, sun safety and healthy eating.
Safety and the changing body
Children will learn about online safety, puberty, menstruation, first aid skills and facts about alcohol, drugs and tobacco.
Art
Drawing: I need space
In this drawing unit, children will explore the purpose and effect of imagery. They will understand and explore decision making in the creative processes. They will develop drawn ideas using their sketchbooks and develop an understanding of how to revisit and improve their ideas.
Music
Ancient Egypt
They will learn to sing with control and expression; explore different forms of notation; read simple pitch notation; and use stave notation to write a piece of music.
Holi
Children will learn that music can be represented with colours. They will learn to represent a piece of music as a graphic score; create a vocal composition based on a picture; and finally they will create a piece of music inspired by a single colour and perform it.
Design and Technology
Mechanical systems: Making a pop-up book
The children will design, make and evaluate their own pop up book suitable for a target user. Their pop up book will include a mixture of structures and mechanisms and they will use layers and spacers to hide the workings of mechanical parts for an aesthetically pleasing result.
Geography
Why do Oceans matter?
Children will learn about the importance of our oceans. They will locate and describe the significance of the Great Barrier Reef. They will explain the impact humans have on coral reefs and oceans and learn about ways to keep our oceans healthy. They will collect data on the types of litter polluting a marine environment and present, analyse and evaluate the data they collected.
Fairtrade (whole school project)
We will be looking at the meaning of Fairtrade trade and how this links with the distribution of natural resources (e,g, food, cotton) from overseas.