Year5
Cu r r i c u l u mOu t l i ne 2 0 1 9 2 0
Our Learning Wheel explained Our learners Our schools are small enough to ensure that each learner is known. By placing our learners at the centre of our approach, we create an education that allows individuality to flourish.
Developing character Fostering a secure bedrock of self-esteem and a sure moral compass is essential preparation for a future in a complex world.
Learning segments We group our subjects together into six curriculum areas. We teach subjects in an
integrated way, because the future belongs to those who can think way beyond narrow subject boundaries.
Learning to think Education is not just about imparting knowledge. It’s about teaching young people how to think for themselves: critically, creatively and collaboratively.
Outer circle We prepare young people to blaze a trail in whatever field they choose. They leave us equipped with a breadth of skills, ready to become responsible global citizens.
Form teachers 5P - Ms Prowse 5N - Mr Newnes
Subject teachers: Humanities - social understanding Mr Newnes and Madame Prowse (Humanities), Madame Prowse and Mrs Matthews (PSHEE), Mrs Knowles and M iss Terry (RS) Language and Communication Mr Newnes (English), Mr Kohler (English), Mrs Fernández Smart (Spanish), Madame
Prowse (French) Mathematical Understanding Mrs Digby (Maths), Mr Newnes (Maths), Mr Hewlett (Coding) Physical Education and Well-being Mr Evans (Games), Mr Godfrey (Games and P.E), Mr Newnes (Games and P.E.), Mr Hewlett (Games), Mrs Parkin (Games), Miss Grayson (Games) Creative and Performing Arts Miss Wynne-Powell (Creative and Design Engineering), Miss Mullaly (Music), Mr Smith (Drama) Scientific Understanding Mr Hewlett
Humanities - Social Understanding
Key Topics In human geography, we will be studying the UK by investigating who we are as a people, reasons why people may wish to come to or leave the UK and look at some basic demographics. We will look at human activity and identify, locate and describe patterns. In physical geography, we will explore Britain’s coastlines through the analysis of maps and coastal features. Through the case study of a coastal town, we will come to understand problems of coastal erosion and what defences we can put in place, if any. We will finish the topic by recognising how and why places might change and ask questions about the UK in the future.
Religious Studies
Key Topics Continuing to learn about the world’s major faiths, we will study the history and key beliefs of Islam. We will discover where and when Islam originated, look at where Muslims worship and learn how their beliefs affect their daily lives. We will look at important Muslim festivals including the Hajj pilgrimage, Ramadan and Eid.
Personal Social Health and Economic Education (PSHEE)
Key Topics Topics this term will include managing risk: looking at road safety and personal safety and discussion on whom we can trust - individuals and organisations. We will discuss risk itself and how it can be managed with the understanding that all risk cannot be eliminated. We will explore what is meant by a healthy lifestyle and we will discuss and look at how this can be achieved.
Language and Communication
Key Topics Year 5 will participate in activities that will help them to develop their English skills. Weekly spellings will be given out on a Friday and assessed the following Friday. Grammar and punctuation skills will generally be taught in context as part of our lessons, although certain topics may be taught discretely as necessary. Further exposure to comprehension skills and techniques will also underpin this work. We will be linking our written work to our residential trip to Cornwall and will be using Michael Morpurgo’s T he White Horse of Zennor and other stories, which is set along the rugged Cornish coastline. Our Cornish knowledge will be used as a prompt to narrative writing, where children will learn to write in both the first and third person and be encouraged to develop their imaginative and creative skills as they produce their own narrative stories. We will finish the term by reviewing the different genres we have covered over the year, and children will be allowed to explore their favourites, leading to longer pieces of free independent writing. Digital learning is an important part of the English curriculum. Children will be given the opportunities to develop their research and digital presentation skills. The children will be encouraged to develop their critical skills by regularly evaluating their own work and that of their peers. How to help at home: ● Encourage your child to write a brief comment about their reading each day, focusing on their personal reaction to what they have read. Please ensure that the reading scheme book is read every day. You can supplement the scheme with library and books from home. ● Help your child to identify key information when using the internet, thus avoiding simply cutting and pasting when engaged in research tasks. Assessment: ● Weekly spelling tests ● Half termly writing assessment ● Summer Assessment
French
Key Topics In French, pupils will learn different rooms in the house and key pieces of furniture to be able to describe their house and bedroom and ask others about theirs. This will lead to a short project on Vincent Van Gogh’s painting “Bedroom in Arles” incorporating conversation, description and independent research. To help at home: pupils can practise vocabulary and conversation from the free websites languagesonline.org.uk
Spanish
Key Topics Year 5 will start the term in Spanish with some number activities to improve their skills and confidence with big numbers. They will then move on to the important topic of food: saying what they like and don’t like. The focus will be on speaking and listening with stories, songs, rhymes and language learning games. There will be plenty of opportunity to explore digital resources and to even create some of their own. Pupils are encouraged to use Linguascope to learn vocabulary independently and can also visit the Grow Story Grow website if they wish to read for pleasure.
Mathematical Understanding
Key Topics In maths we will be solving problems involving number up to three decimal places involving length, mass, volume and money. These will be real-life problems. Pupils will learn to convert between the different measures e.g. millimetres, centimetres, metres and kilometres, grams to kilograms and millilitres to litres. They will also learn to convert between different units of time e.g. days, weeks, months, years, decades etc as well as learning to read timetables. Pupils will then move on to identifying 3D shapes; use the properties of rectangles to Find missing lengths and angles and distinguish between regular and irregular polygons based on reasoning about equal sides and angles. Next pupils will classify and draw angles and be able to identify angles at a point and in a turn and on a straight line. Our next topic is reflecting and translating shapes using coordinates and we finish off the term looking at volume in a practical way. Times Tables are expected to be learned at home. We use a wide variety of resources - concrete, pictorial, abstract and digital - to help pupils to develop mastery in each topic. Assessment ● In-class topic tests ● Summer assessment
Physical Education and Well-being
Key Topics The children are taught a variety of striking and fielding activities in their Games lessons alongside athletics. Children will learn the skills needed to play, as well as the basic and more complex rules of the game. They will also begin to apply basic tactics into their game play and take responsibility for organising positions within a game situation. In athletics, the children are taught a variety of track and field events and their rules. The use of iPads will prove invaluable in allowing for reflection, decomposition and refinement of technique. Pupils will continue to swim on a Thursday afternoon for the whole of the Summer term. Lessons will focus on stroke technique, improving stamina and personal survival skills. How you can help: If your child has a sporting interest, encourage them to join a club outside school and any clubs within school time. Encourage your child to engage in a healthy lifestyle by eating the correct food and participating in sport. Play a mixture of team and individual sports with your child to develop their basic motor skills. Encourage swimming outside school time.
Creative and Performing Arts
Key Topics In Music, pupils will explore music related to coastal landscape regions. In particular, pupils will develop their part singing of sea shanties and enjoy the full effects of expressive harmony. Pupils will analyse and respond to various works by Smetana, Mussorgsky and Britten. Pupils will explore folk songs and also develop their own programmatic compositions of coastal music largely through use of the software, GarageBand. This technological tool that will allow pupils to compose and sequence their own melodies, incorporating relevant samples where appropriate. Year 5 will continue their study of recorder with a focus towards music medals. Our term in a CD&E will be spent looking at colour palettes, views of our planet from above and investigating watercolour before creating our own woven painting. We will continue to weave elements of art and design history and quickfire skills activities into our Creative sessions. Come and see our work linked to Da Vinci at our Full Steam Ahead exhibition down at the lovely Bridge End Gardens.
Scientific Understanding
Key Topics During the first half of term we will study habitats, food chains, adaptation, classification and ecosystems. The children will be able to apply much of this understanding during their trip to Cornwall. In the second half of term the children will investigate air and its uses. We will look at pressure, insulation, air as an energy source, air transport and temperature. We will look at the Beaufort Scale and weather conditions and the instruments needed to measure air. We will also be investigating the effect of gears, pulleys and levers and apply these principles whilst building practical working models. Learning Objectives: to understand and use simple classification techniques to learn the importance of plants in food chains to understand the terms producer, consumer, herbivore and carnivore to understand the properties and uses of air to understand how the weather is controlled by air conditions to understand how gears, levers and pulleys can be used to change an applied force