Curriculum notes
Curriculum notes
Year 5 - Summer Term 2008
ENGLISHPlease not that this is the beginning of a two-term programme building skills necessary for 11+ examinations.
- Comprehension practice
- How to quote effectively
- Study of The Wreck of Zanzibar
- Writing practice
- Poetry study (comprehension/techniques)
- Using paragraphs
- Revise all punctuation to date – especially apostrophe
- Proof reading
- Multiplication and division
- Percentages
- Shape and space
- Time
- Revision and assessment
- Coordinates
- Quadrilaterals
- Problem solving
- Life cycle of flowering plants
- Germination
- Pollination and fertilization
- Seed and fruit formation
- Dispersal
- Feeding relationships to include communities, habitats and food chains
- Adaptations of organisms to different habitats
- Daily routine using reflexive verbs
- School subjects and the timetable
- Expressing likes and dislikes and giving reasons
- The verb “faire”
- Numbers 61 – 100
- Pets
- People – describing appearance and character
- Leisure activities
- Talking about school subjects
- Likes and dislikes
- Adjectives
- Radical changing verbs
- Time and revision of numbers
- Timetable
- Talking about meal times
- Food and drink
- Describing your school and how you get to school
- New World explorers
- Why did Europeans begin to explore the world
- Who went where?
- Compare 15th Century Europe with New World
- Project on 1 famous explorer
- Global warming
- Beliefs
- Sacred texts
- Worship
- Festivals
- History
- Spreadsheets
- Internet Skills incorporating Desktop Publishing
- Understanding the difference between the silent movie already studied and the techniques of TV media
- Singing
- Introduction to chords using electronic keyboards
- Saint-Saëns: Danse Macabre
- Music theory software (Music Ace)
- An introduction to Modernism in Sculpture and the constructional techniques
- Analysing facial expressions and gestures and then making an interpretative sculpture in a 3D material of choice
- Investigating and experimenting through the art movements of impressionism, expressionism and abstraction on the theme of landscapes
- Multi media experimentation and colour development
- Arts studied include Wassily Kandinsky and Arshile Gorky
- Looking at the styles, techniques and symbols that the aboriginals used in their paintings to tell a story
- To build up knowledge and do an aboriginal styled piece focusing on a personal event or experience
- Plan, design & build a motor driven vehicle based on the cartoon ‘Wacky Racers’
- Welcome back and target setting
- Conservation of resources
- Protecting our bodies
- Tackle safety
- Moving into the Upper School