St Francis Primary School - Half-Termly Overviews
Curriculum Overview for Autumn Term2 : Year 5
Second Half of Autumn Term 2011 - Year 5
Y5 Team: Mrs Parkes, Mrs Ward, Mrs Savage, Mrs Bond,
Mrs Fisher, Mrs Brain, and Mrs Light.
This is an overview of the work we will be covering this half term.
English (as well as the Primary Framework)
Hampshire Illustrated Book Awards The books are chosen for their potential both to stimulate discussion and to introduce children to new and exciting ways of working.
Older Literature - sustain engagement with longer, older or classic texts. Children can identify aspects of the historical setting that may influence the way characters behave.
Poetic Style - hear, read and study in depth a range of poems from two significant writers.
Film Narratives - tell a story using notes designed to cue techniques, such as repetition, recap and humour. Reflect on how working in role helps to explore complex issues. Infer writers' perspectives from what is written and from what is implied.
Mathematics
Whole school maths targets for this term are based on ordering numbers.
The Year 5 targets are displayed in the classrooms.
Securing number facts, understanding shape
Teaching a variety of different approaches to multiplication leading towards partitioning for larger multiplication questions. Use fractions and percentages in a simple way. Looking at number patterns, using a calculator for rounding and ordering numbers. Investigating number patterns, where children have to consider and discuss their findings, persuading others with their presentation of evidence and explaining their ways of working.
Calculating, measuring and understanding shape
Dealing with measurements in the form of time and introducing the children to calculating time using the 24-hour clock. Using coordinates to draw shapes. There are opportunities for children to use their knowledge of common and regular shapes to reason about positioning and to work out unknown coordinates. Finding areas of squares and rectangles and those of composite shapes.
Handling data and measures
To express probability as a fraction or a decimal fraction.
Science
Relating to the National Curriculum the children will be taught about Changing Materials including:
a) to describe changes that occur when materials are mixed [for example, adding salt to water]
b) to describe changes that occur when materials are heated or cooled
c) about reversible changes, including dissolving, melting, boiling, condensing, freezing and evaporating
d) that non-reversible changes result in the formation of new materials that may be useful
e) that burning materials [for example, wood, wax, natural gas] results in the formation of new materials and that this change is not usually reversible.
Other areas of the Curriculum
History –Victorians including the Industrial Revolution and Victorian Eastleigh
Art – William Morris Printing
PE – Dance - Machines
Outdoor Games – Tennis
ICT – Data Handling
RE – Birth Narratives
Music – Victorian Music Hall
PDL – It’s My Body/Changes
Spanish – Where I live, Countries, My house
Other things we would like to let you know about
Thursday 10th November Visit to HMS Warrior, Portsmouth
Wednesday 2nd/9th/16th/23rd November Outdoor Tennis
Tuesday 15th November Sex Education Parents’ Evening
Friday 18th November 5KW class assembly
Friday 18th November SFSA Coffee morning (9am, staff room)
Friday 25th November: Non-uniform Day
Saturday 3rd December: Christmas Fayre 12.30-3.00pm
Wednesday 7th – Friday 9th December Presents for Parents
Friday 9th December KS2 Christmas Lunch
Thursday 15th December Y5 and Y6 Christmas party
Friday 16th December Term ends 1.30pm.
Y5 Team: Mrs Parkes, Mrs Ward, Mrs Savage, Mrs Bond,
Mrs Fisher, Mrs Brain, and Mrs Light.
This is an overview of the work we will be covering this half term.
English (as well as the Primary Framework)
Hampshire Illustrated Book Awards The books are chosen for their potential both to stimulate discussion and to introduce children to new and exciting ways of working.
Older Literature - sustain engagement with longer, older or classic texts. Children can identify aspects of the historical setting that may influence the way characters behave.
Poetic Style - hear, read and study in depth a range of poems from two significant writers.
Film Narratives - tell a story using notes designed to cue techniques, such as repetition, recap and humour. Reflect on how working in role helps to explore complex issues. Infer writers' perspectives from what is written and from what is implied.
Mathematics
Whole school maths targets for this term are based on ordering numbers.
The Year 5 targets are displayed in the classrooms.
Securing number facts, understanding shape
Teaching a variety of different approaches to multiplication leading towards partitioning for larger multiplication questions. Use fractions and percentages in a simple way. Looking at number patterns, using a calculator for rounding and ordering numbers. Investigating number patterns, where children have to consider and discuss their findings, persuading others with their presentation of evidence and explaining their ways of working.
Calculating, measuring and understanding shape
Dealing with measurements in the form of time and introducing the children to calculating time using the 24-hour clock. Using coordinates to draw shapes. There are opportunities for children to use their knowledge of common and regular shapes to reason about positioning and to work out unknown coordinates. Finding areas of squares and rectangles and those of composite shapes.
Handling data and measures
To express probability as a fraction or a decimal fraction.
Science
Relating to the National Curriculum the children will be taught about Changing Materials including:
a) to describe changes that occur when materials are mixed [for example, adding salt to water]
b) to describe changes that occur when materials are heated or cooled
c) about reversible changes, including dissolving, melting, boiling, condensing, freezing and evaporating
d) that non-reversible changes result in the formation of new materials that may be useful
e) that burning materials [for example, wood, wax, natural gas] results in the formation of new materials and that this change is not usually reversible.
Other areas of the Curriculum
History –Victorians including the Industrial Revolution and Victorian Eastleigh
Art – William Morris Printing
PE – Dance - Machines
Outdoor Games – Tennis
ICT – Data Handling
RE – Birth Narratives
Music – Victorian Music Hall
PDL – It’s My Body/Changes
Spanish – Where I live, Countries, My house
Other things we would like to let you know about
Thursday 10th November Visit to HMS Warrior, Portsmouth
Wednesday 2nd/9th/16th/23rd November Outdoor Tennis
Tuesday 15th November Sex Education Parents’ Evening
Friday 18th November 5KW class assembly
Friday 18th November SFSA Coffee morning (9am, staff room)
Friday 25th November: Non-uniform Day
Saturday 3rd December: Christmas Fayre 12.30-3.00pm
Wednesday 7th – Friday 9th December Presents for Parents
Friday 9th December KS2 Christmas Lunch
Thursday 15th December Y5 and Y6 Christmas party
Friday 16th December Term ends 1.30pm.
