Year 5 Summer Term Curriculum Newsletter

Literacy

Fiction – The children will be reading stories from different cultures and times trying to gain an understanding of relationships, social customs, attitudes and beliefs. They will be using everyday words borrowed from other languages.  They will be writing from different characters viewpoints in the style of a given author.  They will be expected to write in complex sentences and explore a range of spellings, meanings and derivations.

Non-Fiction – The children will be learning to write in a persuasive style for a variety of different audiences.  They will write about subjects that are familiar and of interest to themselves.  They will be developing their skimming and scanning skills when reading to locate necessary information for their reading.

Numeracy – Children will be learning how to extend written methods to short multiplication of HTU or TU by U; long multiplication of TU by TU; extend written methods to:
short division of HTU by U.  Use decimal notation for tenths and hundredths. Relate fractions to their decimal representations.  Solve a problem by representing and interpreting data in tables, charts, graphs and diagrams, including those generated by a computer; use, read and write standard metric units (km, m, cm, mm, kg, g, l, ml), including their abbreviations, and relationships between them, suggest suitable units and measuring equipment to estimate or measure length, mass or capacity; record estimates and readings from scales to a suitable degree of accuracy.

Science Life Cycles – the children will be learning about the life cycles of plants and animals  Gases around us- Through this unit children learn that gases are material and can be distinguished from solids and liquids by their properties. They also learn about the uses of some important gases and where gases are found.

Geography –Environmental issues – local traffic – the children will be looking at all of the ways we use travel, why using a car is very popular, looking at how we can use alternative modes of transport for the benefit of the environment.

Art – Talking though Textiles – The children will explore how stories have been represented in different times and cultures.  They will use a range of materials, techniques and textile processes to create a group piece of artwork.

Design and Technology – The children will be making masks and understand the purpose of them. They will be designing their own masks and making them based on their designs with various suitable materials.

Music - Composing – the children will be continuing to learn how a composer composes music and they will produce their own composition in the form of symbols and use instruments to play it.

ICT – Spreadsheets – The children will be learning how to create and use a spreadsheet, and how to make calculations on a spreadsheet for budgeting purposes.

Spanish

The children will be consolidating how to say the time, the names of school subjects and stating their preferences.  They will continue using the Spanish computer package called Sonica Spanish to enhance their learning.

PE

Swimming-the children will be going swimming for the summer term.

Kwik Cricket-  the children will develop their batting and fielding skills during the first of the summer term.

Athletics-the children will do athletics during the second half of the summer term.

PSHE

Relationships - the children will be learning about how to help themselves when having difficulty in friendship relationships.  This will be carried out through role-play situations and based on their own experiences.

Religious Education

The children will be working through main topics this half term.

Holidays and Holy days

The children will be able to recognise what makes a day recreative, renewing, relaxing and restful, reflect on their own weekends and holidays and the power of the Holy Spirit to make everyday holy.

Building Bridges

The children will be begin to understand the importance of reaching out o others, and the importance of recognizing failure to do good.

Difference

The children will begin to understand the difference as a source of enrichment, and the difference in the worldwide universal church.

Other faith week - Judaism