Year 5 Summer Term Curriculum (2017)
Maths- Add and subtract numbers mentally with increasingly large numbers
- Solve addition and subtraction multi-step problems in contexts, deciding which operations and methods to use and why.
- Solve calculation problems using information from a range of table and charts.
- Continue to compare and classify geometric shapes based on developing knowledge and understanding of their properties.
- Use the properties of rectangles to deduce related facts and find missing lengths and angles.
- Become accurate in drawing lines with a ruler to the nearest millimetre, and measuring with a protractor. Use conventional markings for parallel lines and right angles.
- Solve problems, involving reasoning about shapes and their properties. Explain solutions orally or using writing, diagrams, practical materials or dynamic geometry ICT tools.
- Know angles are measured in degrees; estimate and compare acute, obtuse and reflex angles.
- Draw given angles and measure them in degrees (°).
- Recap our work on fractions, percentages and decimals. / Literacy
We will have a focus in these areas this term;
Speaking and Listening
- To articulate and justify answers, arguments and views.
Reading
- To summarise the main ideas drawn from more than one paragraph, identify key details that support the main ideas
- To identify how language, structure and presentation contribute to meaning
- To discuss and evaluate how authors use language, including figurative language, considering the impact on the reader
Writing
- To select appropriate grammar and vocabulary, understanding how such choices can change and enhance meaning
- To use a wide range of devices to build cohesion within and across paragraphs
SPaG
- To continue to use brackets, dashes or commas to indicate parenthesis
- To identify a range of grammar skills in a piece of writing
Science
This half term, we will be continuing our work on the Solar System. Children will learn about the phases of the moon, the impact of the rotation of the Earth on our days, months and years.
After half term, we will be looking at materials. Children will learn the difference between a mixture and a solution before investigating ways of separating the solute from the solvent. / Computing
This term we will be looking at website design. We will begin by analysing what makes an effective website and then creating our own sites on Neil Armstrong and the space race (the quest to become the first nation to send a manned mission to the moon).
History
We will be looking at the Anglo Saxons and Vikings. This will build on their learning from Year 4 and look at how these two civilisations lived alongside each other up to the point of their demise in 1066. / Art and Design
The children will look at sculpture and develop a range of clay skills when creating their own sculptures.
Design and Technology
The children will be looking at structures in DT. They will analyse existing structures and the techniques architects use to strengthen their structures before using a selection of these skills to build their own structures. / RE
Mrs Lamb will be completing a unit on peace where the children look at the importance each religion places on positive values such as peace, equality, fairness, love and respect. They will discover how different faiths foster these values.
PE
This term, the children will cover tennis, gymnastics, cricket and athletics.
Before half term, they will work with Mrs Paxton to develop their tennis skills. Looking at how to control the ball and play a controlled game. While working with a gymnastics coach on a Tuesday.
After half term, we will begin a unit on athletics and start preparing for the Year 5 cricket festival the whole class will attend in July. / French
Mrs Paxton will be working with the children to revise several of the topics previously covered, before looking at telling the time in French. They will begin to look at how to have a conversation when they visit the country.
Personal, Social and Health Education (PSHE)
- To recognise their worth as individuals, by identifying positive things about themselves and their achievements, seeing their mistakes, making amends and setting personal goals;
- To recognise that their actions affect themselves and others, to care about other people’s feelings and
to try to see things from their points of view;