Curriculum notes

Curriculum notes

Year 5 - Autumn Term 2008

ENGLISH
Reading and Writing
• Study of novel or short stories.  The text will provide a stimulus for various fiction and non-fiction writing tasks
• Comprehension skills / practice exercises
• Writing to persuade (charity campaign)
Grammar and Punctuation
• Revision of capital letters and full stops
• Revision of nouns and adjectives
• Revision of speech marks and adverbs in speech
• Verbs, commas and past tense
• Paragraphing
• Actives and passives
• Imperatives

MATHEMATICS
• Place value, ordering and rounding
• Addition, subtraction, multiplication and division
• Using a calculator
• 3D shape
• Properties of numbers
• Sequences
• 2D shape
• Lines, co-ordinates and translation
• Symmetry
• Angles
• Time
NB  Daily mental starters ensure the continued development of mental strategies

SCIENCE
• Life processes to include organs, teeth, disease and the human life cycle
• The Earth, Sun, Moon and other planets
• Electricity and circuits to include circuit diagrams or symbols

FRENCH
• Our local area
• My house – rooms and furniture
• Activities at home
• Activities people do or don’t do
• -er verbs
• Numbers -69
• Telling the time (12 hour clock)

GERMAN
• Greetings and introductions
• Cardinal numbers up to 60
• Ordinal numbers up to 20
• Dates
• Classroom language
• School and school subjects
• Days of the week / months of the year

SPANISH
• Greetings
• Classroom commands
• Saying your name and asking others
• Definite and indefinite article
• Singular and plural
• Classroom vocabulary
• Negatives
• Numbers -31
• Dates
• Age, asking / saying how old you / others are
• Days of the week / months
• Alphabet

HISTORY
The Tudors
• Historical topics and terms
• The Tudor Family Tree
• Henry VII – The War of the Roses, problems and solutions
• Tudor Monarchs
• Follow up work on The Mary Rose
• Tudor country life and entertainment
• Town Life
• Tudor maps
• Tudor clothing

GEOGRAPHY
• Mountain and Polar environments

RELIGIOUS STUDIES
Judaism
• Beliefs
• Sacred texts – The Torah
• Worship
• Festivals – Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur and Hanukah
• Family life

ICT
• Word processing text skills
• Producing tables in MS Word
• Internet skills and online safety
• Desktop publishing skills

DRAMA
• Discuss history and development of silent movies and importance of use of body and face
• Mime exercises to develop the above
• Work and film a devised silent movie

MUSIC
• Singing
• Playing simple melodies on keyboards and tuned percussion
• Composing a short piece based on words that can be created using the musical alphabet
• Handel: Music for the Royal Fireworks
• Music Ace theory software

ART
SLD
• Printmaking and investigation of texture and surface
• Looking at landscape painting – making individual studies of the environment and natural objects
• Produce a series of prints based on natural forms with reference to the Aboriginal ideas of recording
MCD
• Studying the artist Alberto Giacometti
• Exploring how to represent and emphasise figures’ gestures by simplifying and enhancing their features and translation these into everyday activities within school
JLM
• Making a papier mache mask of an animal
• Colour and decoration will be influenced by looking at a variety of cultures, using tissue paper, paint and found objects

DESIGN TECHNOLOGY
• Using Maths skills to develop nets for the car body, design and build a motor driven vehicle based on the cartoon programme the ‘Wacky Races’.  This will involve construction and planning.

PSHE & CITIZENSHIP
• Welcome back and target setting
• Growing up
• Fire safety
• Christmas around the world