Curriculum Overview Autumn 2 Year 5

How to support your child’s learning at home Please ensure your child brings their reading book every day. It is also still important that your child is listened to regularly at home. So that we can monitor who is reading, please ensure there are at least three entries in the ‘Reading Record’, each week.

The expectation for a Year 5 pupil is that they should know all of their times-tables (2x-12x), including decimals – multiplication and division, by the end of the academic year. Please ensure your child practices these for at least 15 minutes per day.

For additional advice about how you can support your child further at home, please contact your child’s class teacher, who will be happy to help.

Homework Starting this half term, the way that homework is set in school will change.

Children will now be given a project based activity which could last for multiple weeks. These projects will be an opportunity for your child to demonstrate their creativity, organisation skills and their independence, which builds on our aim to develop ‘powerful learners’.

In addition to the project based homework, there will be compulsory weekly homework which consists of daily reading for 15 minutes, daily times tables practice – which could be completed using our new online times table system known as times tables rockstars, and weekly spellings.

Reminder Please check and sign your child’s journal each week to see any important messages that could be inside. Your child’s new targets, along with an overview of the topics being covered this half term, can also be found in the home school journal.

Make sure you know your targets and are constantly striving to achieve them.

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Curriculum Overview Year 5 Autumn Term 2 Miss Shaw, Mrs Mansell, Miss Briggs

English: In English children will be looking at historical narratives. They will be thinking about WW2 and the Holocaust and consider how the rights of children at this time are different from their own. Children will also deepen their empathy skill whilst writing in the role of historical people and in the role of characters from The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas. In addition to this, children will continue to develop their ability to write a range of sentences that contain a relative clause. They will also continue to deepen their vocabulary knowledge in a range of contexts.

Creative Curriculum: Me, My Rights and I. Children will continue their work on Rights. They will consider Article 19 (Keeping children safe) more closely whilst analysing texts about children from WW2. Children will begin to make links between their own rights and discuss these in relation to the rights of Jewish children at the time of the Holocaust.

Maths: This month marks ‘Barvember’ in school – this is where children are given mathematical problems where the Bar Method can be used to support the acquisition of the answers. Children will be solving problems of this nature during early birds this month. In addition, this term we will be focusing on finding the perimeter of compound shapes, multiplication and division strategies and fractions.

Science: The children will build a more systematic understanding of materials. They will be exploring, comparing and investigating the properties of a broad range of materials and relating these to what they learnt about magnetism in previous year groups.

Vocabulary: This term children will

be given a range of vocabulary based tasks to develop their understanding of language and to aid their progress in writing. We will look at historical language used and its meaning and begin to use this in our writing.

Creative Curriculum: Amazing Anthropoids We are continuing to develop our Geography knowledge by gaining an insight into where our food and textiles come from around the world. We will also be considering the links needed to trade with other countries.

Art: The children will experience Art lessons with a skilled artist, enhancing their techniques in drawing and sketching.

Similarly, a skilled music teacher will focus on the notation of music and song, in order to prepare for and develop a performance during our forthcoming festive season.

Music: The children have already got off to a great start in music this half term, where they are working hard to put together a performance based on the Carol of the bells. They will practice this using a range of instruments including glockenspiels, keyboards and sleigh bells.