Curriculum Forcast
Autumn (2) 2020

Year 5

Maths

This half term, the children will be learning to:

• Consolidate knowledge of the four operations and different methods that can be used to find an answer.
• Understand why an answer is correct by focusing on both fluency and reasoning style questions.
• Compare and order fractions using simplifying and finding the equivalent.
• Understand the relationship between fractions, decimals and percentages.
• Apply knowledge to reasoning style questions by breaking down word problems and choosing the appropriate methods.
  
  

The children will have weekly arithmetic lessons with a focus on different arithmetic questions and the different methods that can be used to solve questions.

 

Literacy

This half term, the children will be learning to:

• Learn how to consolidate comprehension skills to deepen understanding of the range of texts read in class.
• Study the features of a range of text genres, including both fiction and non-fiction, to expand and extend knowledge of writing styles.
• Write at length including a range of high-level sentence structure.
• Continue to edit and improve work using self and peer assessment.

• Read, write and perform poetry, focusing on the creation and performance of play scripts.
  
  

The children will have weekly spelling and grammar lessons.  Each week will have a different focus which the children will be expected to show in their writing.

Topic

This half term our Topic is 'Passion for Fashion'

 

Science

This half term our Topic is ‘Properties and changes of materials’

This half term, the children will be learning to:

• compare and group together everyday materials on the basis of their properties, including their hardness, solubility, transparency, conductivity (electrical and thermal), and response to magnets
• know that some materials will dissolve in liquid to form a solution, and describe how to recover a substance from a solution
• use knowledge of solids, liquids and gases to decide how mixtures might be separated, including through filtering, sieving and evaporating
• give reasons, based on evidence from comparative and fair tests, for the particular uses of everyday materials, including metals, wood and plastic
• demonstrate that dissolving, mixing and changes of state are reversible changes
• explain that some changes result in the formation of new materials, and that this kind of change is not usually reversible, including changes associated with burning and the action of acid on bicarbonate of soda

 

RE

This half term our Topic is ‘Christianity’.

This half term, the children will be learning to:

• explain the impact of belief in God on a person’s lifestyle
• explain, with reasons, why the Holy Trinity is an important idea of Christians
• describe some different ideas about the meanings of Bible stories
• understand the Bible’s place within Christian communities and how it is used

 

Computing

This half term our Topic is ‘We Are Artists’.

This half term, the children will be learning to:

• create a program that draws a shape
• create an overlapping pattern using Scratch
• create a tessellating pattern using simple shapes
• create a more complex tessellating pattern
  
  

Homework: Daily: Please ensure that your child reads every day, for at least 10 minutes. The children have all been given a login for Oxford Owls which they can use to read. Children will be required to practise their weekly spellings at home using Google Classroom and also practise their times tables every night. Weekly: Spelling homework will be uploaded on Google Classroom on a Thursday and is to be completed online by the following Tuesday. Maths and Literacy homework will be completed via Google Classroom and will be an online weekly homework quiz. For those who do not have access to the internet outside of school, they will be given a paper copy to complete at school. New quizzes will be set each Thursday with the expectation that they are completed by the following Tuesday. PE: We shall be doing PE outside throughout the year, therefore would you please ensure your children are sent to school wearing warm navy jogging bottoms, a plain white t-shirt, sweat tops and trainers. Please make sure that everything is labelled with your child’s name. No earrings, watches or jewellery are allowed to be worn in school.

 

If you have any concerns relating to your child, please feel free to see the class teacher: Class 16 – Mr Reynolds, Class 17 – Mr Dickens, Class 18 – Mrs Patrinostro Upper KS2 Phase Leader – Miss Maclean KS2 Assistant Head Teacher – Mrs Delbosq