Spring 2 Swimming Timetable

Maths

This half-term in maths, children will be studying the following topics:

Multiplication and Division

• Multiply up to 4-digit numbers by a 2-digit number
• Short Division: dividing up to 4-digit numbers by a 1-digit number
• Divide with remainders
• Solve problems with multiplication and division

Fractions 

• Multiplying a fraction by a whole number
• Multiplying a mixed number by a whole number
• Find fractions of amounts
• Finding the whole

Mastering Number

What is involved?

Knowledge of multiplication and division and its applications forms the single most important aspect of the KS2 curriculum, and is the gateway to success at secondary school. This project enables pupils in Year 5 to develop fluency in multiplication and division facts, and a confidence and flexibility with number that exemplifies good number sense.

What will the children learn?

• Year 5 will develop automaticity in multiplication and division facts through regular practice.
• Year 5 pupils will make progress in their knowledge and understanding of multiplicative concepts.

 

Writing

 

This half-term, we will be studying two texts: The Lost Happy Endings by Carol Ann Duffy and The Whale by Ethan and Vita Murrows.

The Lost Happy Endings - Synopsis of Text taken from Literacy Tree

What would happen if we lost the happy endings to stories - imagine the tears at bedtime! A fantastic and magical tale about what happens when, one night, a wicked witch steals the happy endings to bedtime stories. It is up to Jub, the keeper of the happy endings, to save the day and ensure sweet dreams everywhere in this lyrical story about storytelling. In the tradition of classic fairy tales for children, Carol Ann Duffy and Jane Ray have created a truly compelling, surprising and beautiful story for children of all ages.

The Whale - Synopsis of Text taken from Literacy Tree

There is a legend that a Great Spotted Whale lives in the ocean; local fishermen still talk of it, although the first sighting fifty years ago was never corroborated. Now, two young whale watchers each set out to find the whale, one armed with sound recording equipment, the other a camera. Mid-ocean their boats collide, so they pool their resources and set off together to capture incontrovertible proof that the mythical Great Spotted Whale exists. The eventual sighting is a magical moment: the whale is truly phenomenal, and swimming along beside her is a small whale calf. The children return to shore, solid proof in hand. As an added twist to the story, they discover that it was their own grandparents who first sighted the Great Spotted Whale fifty years ago. The Murrow's epic, wordless adventure is brought to life with Ethan's stunning graphite drawings, which convey the drama and haunting beauty of the ocean, and capture the majesty of this awe-inspiring creature.

 

We will continue to focus on developing the key skills required to be successful in Year 5: 

• Presenting work with care, including using cursive handwriting
• Editing work, looking specifically at spelling, punctuation and grammar

We will continue putting emphasis on children trying to embed key features of Upper Key Stage 2 writing into their daily writing, including:

• Relative clauses - The boy, who had short brown hair, kicked the ball.
• Subordinate clauses - Because the men had been at sea for many years, Odysseus knew that they must return home soon.
• Modal verbs - I can hear the wind howling as the storm clouds envelope our town.  I should run but I will not.
• Using a range of punctuation - : ; ( ) - 

We will also continue to encourage children to WRITE LESS, BETTER.  We want children to focus on producing quality pieces of writing, and this is much easier when the expectation of work produced is reduced.

We will be using the following writing outcomes to evidence our children's progress in the aforementioned areas:

•  Character description of the witch from The Lost Happy Endings
• A formal piece of writing - a book review of The Whale

Reading

 

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight by Michael Morpurgo

We chose this text as a Literary Leaf as it presents children with an opportunity to study the writing of an influential British author.  Of all the tales of the Knights of the Round Table, the story of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is one of the most magical. Children will experience thrills and enchantment, chivalry and courage, a challenge and a quest. Its hero is the greatest of all King Arthur’s knights, Sir Gawain. His adversary is the fearsome Green Knight, who rides into Camelot one New Year’s Eve with a challenge that strikes dread into Arthur’s court. For Gawain, it is the start of an extraordinary adventure.

 

Vocabulary

Children will have the opportunity to explore unknown vocabulary in the passage.

They will be introduced to words through explanations in everyday connected language, rather than dictionary definitions.

Prosody

Children will have regular opportunities to hear their teacher read.

Pupils can then orally rehearse and practice reading the passage. This can be read in pairs, so there is an ‘audience’. Children will also have opportunities to read in groups and complete individual performances for the class.

Language for effect

Here, children will unpick the choices made by the author and the impact this has on the text and therefore the reader.

We will look at particular phrases and sentences rather than whole passages.

Children will have the chance to revisit vocabulary from the first session and see how effective it is within the context of the sentence.

Comprehension and Oracy

Children will have the opportunity for informal book talk.

Chances will be given to discuss the book as a class.

Written work may take place in the form of comprehension – retrieval, inference, sequencing style questions.

Reading for Pleasure

Finally, children will have the chance to read on in the text – this will also be done in your Story Time.

 

Spellings

Spellings is now taught daily in short, sharp, 15-minute lessons following the same lesson structure every day:

Year 5 will continue this new approach to spellings, which has been very successful so far.  Children have been really engaged in lessons and I know that they have really enjoyed them.  We want our children to focus on accuracy, independence, and being able to spot errors and correct them whilst editing.

Quick Review

• Practise a word from the previous lesson's rule or focus.

Teach and Practise

• Introduce words that follow a new spelling rule
• Read the works fluently as a class
• Locate sounds on 'Grow the Code poster - see below
• Add sound buttons and locate focus grapheme or manipulate words.

Practise and Apply

• Spelling 3–4 words that follow the rule and include the focus grapheme

Review

• Recap on rule and add the new rule to a display

On Fridays, children will be introduced to 'prickly spellings', which are Challenge Words.  These will be linked to the Year 5 and 6 Spelling list.

Geography

Natural Disasters

Key Question — What are the different types of natural disaster, and can humans  protect themselves against them?

Natural disasters are events caused by nature, such as floods, volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, tropical storms and many more. Sadly, these happen quite frequently, resulting in a large loss of human life and massive damage to buildings and infrastructure.  Certain areas are more prone to these devastating  events than others—the Pacific Ring of fire for volcanoes & earthquakes; and the tropics for hurricanes and typhoons.

Some scientists believe that an increase in natural disasters such as flooding and wildfire is caused by human activity changing the global climate.  What do you think?

 

Science

Materials - this unit of work will be the focus for the entire Spring Term

National Curriculum 2014 Objectives 

Pupils should be taught to:

• Compare and group together everyday materials on the basis of their properties, including their hardness, solubility, transparency, conductivity (electrical and thermal), and response to magnets
• Know that some materials will dissolve in liquid to form a solution, and describe how to recover a substance from a solution
• Use knowledge of solids, liquids and gases to decide how mixtures might be separated, including through filtering, sieving and evaporating
• Give reasons, based on evidence from comparative and fair tests, for the particular uses of everyday materials, including metals, wood and plastic
• Demonstrate that dissolving, mixing and changes of state are reversible changes
• Explain that some changes result in the formation of new materials, and that this kind of change is not usually reversible, including changes associated with burning and the action of acid on bicarbonate of soda

Materials are the matter from which a thing is made from. Usually split into four categories: metals, ceramics, polymers and composites.

Art

Printing

Key questions: How can I create a screen-print design using two colours

 

 

Religion and Worldviews

In Religion and Worldviews this half-term, children will be studying TBC

PSHE

This term we are going to TBC.

We will continue to embed the three Golden Rules, as well as other pupil expectations, both in class and whilst moving around the school.

Spanish

This half-term in Spanish, we will be learning about the face and body parts and how to describe using adjectives.

PE

This half-term, both of our PE sessions will be on a Friday.  

Children will be continuing gymnastics this half-term, as well as learning about a range of Invasion Games.