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Year 5

Spring Term

Computing

Inside a PC:
Understanding what components are inside a computer.

Exploring Social Media:
Different types, why it is used.
We will also learn about the risks of using Social Media.

Digital Images:
Understanding how digital images are created and knowing the different types.

Creativity

Music - Jazz:
Explore musicianship, time signatures and rhythmic patterns.
Listen and respond to music, along with composing and performance.
Sing and play instruments, plus exploring composition using technology.

Art – Kandinsky:
Studying some of his most famous works.
Using various media and tessellation to create own work in the style.

Design Technology – Fabric:
Learn to use a sewing machine effectively and safely.
Design and make a personalised beanie hat which incorporates a range of machine stitching and includes a hem with hand-sewn applique detail.

Food Tech:
Learn about food hygiene to wash up efficiently.
Prepare some basic foods, practise measuring, peeling and chopping.
What makes a healthy lunch box?

STEM:
Ergonomics (3D glasses) - use measuring skills to create their own 3D glasses.

Ed4Life

Dreams and Goals:
Learn about and reflect on money and jobs, considering their future job.
Compare cultural similarities and differences.

Healthy Me:
Learn about the risks caused by smoking and alcohol.
Learn basic first aid, including how to contact the emergency services.
Look at body image; how this is portrayed in the media, and how people’s relationships with food can be linked to negative body image pressures.

English

Spelling & Handwriting:
Continue exploring KS2 spelling rules and a fluent joined style of writing.

Reading:
Comparing and using fiction, non-fiction and poetry texts to; make connections, sequence and recall, retrieve information and implied meaning, further develop scanning and skimming speed and fluency.
We will also be focusing on extending our answers by using evidence from texts to support our ideas.

Writing:
Explore explanation texts, the scientific and thematic language used within them, to write our own about invented machines.
Utilise powerful vocabulary to retell a known Greek myth.
Learn about the rhythm and tempo of spoken word poetry, creating and performing our own.

French

Vocabulary for the Classroom:
What is in your pencil case? What items do you find in a classroom?
Learn colours.

Geography

Exploring Maps:
Learn to read maps, including OS maps with grid references.
Look at how settlements and land use changes over time.
Sketch our own maps using correct features and understand how an aerial photo can be used alongside maps.

History

Greek Life:
Study the achievements and influence on the Western world.
Children will find out about the way in which people lived in the Ancient Greek empire.
They will use a range of archaeological and written sources, select and record information and interpret the past in different ways.

Maths

Fractions and Decimals:
Read, write, order and compare decimals.
Round decimals to the nearest whole number.
Represent, identify, name, write, order and compare fractions (including improper & mixed numbers).
Calculate fractions of amounts.

Angles:
Classify, compare, order angles, measure and draw angles with a protractor.
Understand and use angle facts to calculate missing angles.

Fractions and Percentages:
Add and subtract fractions with denominators that are multiples of the same number.
Multiply fractions (and mixed numbers) by a whole number.
Explore percentage, decimal, fractions equivalence.

Transformations:
Coordinates in all four quadrants.
Translation and reflection.
Calculate intervals across zero.

PE

Netball:
High-five position, shooting techniques, marking and footwork.

Tag Rugby:
Throw, pass, intercept, tackle and defend in a team.

Football:
Speed, attacking and defence.

Dance:
Explore cannon in group dance.

Sports Hall Athletics:
Standing long jump, javelin, balance, target throw, speed jump.

Gymnastics:
Unison and symmetry in performed sequences and routines.

Philosophy

Hinduism:
Understanding more about Brahman and the Trimurti.

Sikhism:
We will continue to learn about Sikhism and the Guru Granth Sahib, their Holy book.

Science

Animals Including Humans:
Identify key stages of a mammal’s life and explore the gestation period.
Learn about foetal development.
Understand the growth of children.
Learn about the changes in puberty.
Describe the changes experienced in old age.

Changes of Materials:
Evaporation to recover a solute from a solvent.
Recognise and describe reversible changes.
Observe and describe chemical reactions.
Investigate rusting reactions.
Investigate burning reactions.
Investigate chemical reactions.