Autumn 1
For the love of reading text
How To Train Your Dragon by Cressida Cowell.
Our class text this half tern is How to Train Your Dragon. This story follows a young boy called Hiccup who does not look or act like the other Vikings in his tribe. Nobody expects high expectations from Hiccup until he captures the most deadly and dangerous dragon of them all: the Night Fury.
Poetry: Haiku
White Rose Maths
We will start Year 5 by extending our learning about Place Value. We will then be moving this learning forward to help us with our Addition, Subtraction, Multiplication and Division knowledge where we will be using both metal and written methods to solve given questions.
Geography/ History
Our learning this half term with have a History focus. We will be learning all about The Anglo-Saxons. We will build up our knowledge each week to help us to decide if The Anglo-Saxon age was a dark era or not. We will begin by finding out who The Anglo-Saxons were and why they decided to settle in Britain. We will then use archaeological evidence to help us to understand how they lived whilst here. By looking at the Staffordshire Hoard, we will work out its significance and what it tells us about Anglo-Saxon life before looking at other documents about them and their limitations. This should then allow us to build our own conclusions about if this was a dark age or not.
Science
Our focus in Science is ‘Earth and Space.’ Throughout this topic of learning we will describe the movement of Earth and the other planets in relation to The Sun and describe the movement of The Moon in relation to The Earth. We will look at the shape of the planets and discuss The Earth’s rotation to describe how we get day and night.
Educational Visit
N/A
PSHE/RSE/ RE
In our PSHE lessons we will be finding out about what makes a person’s identity. We will do this by looking at similarities and differences between people and then by looking at what individuality means.
In RE, we will be looking at Christianity and what it means if Christians say that God is holy and loving. We will do this by looking at different biblical texts and linking them to what Christian’s believe.
Art/ D & T/ Music
In Art, we will be focussing on William Morris, and creating artwork in his style including symmetry and tapestry designs. In D&T we will be researching and building our own bridges. We will be finding out what the different types of bridges are, and which style we should adopt to make our bridges the sturdiest. We will compete: who can make the sturdiest bridge to hold a weight? In Music, we will be listening and appraising ‘Livin on a Prayer’ by Bon Jon Jovi.
Spanish
In Spanish, we will be building on our numbers 21 -30 and asking and answering questions linked to presenting myself. We will be able to use Spanish dictionaries in order to enhance our vocabulary.
PE day
Thursday
Spellings/ Reading
Children will be take part in a weekly spelling test where they will be tested on spellings which they have learned over the previous week both in school and at home. We will start by looking at spellings from previous year groups before learning words on the statutory word list. We will then learn to spell words ending in –able and –ably.
Children access a banded reading book, appropriate to their reading ability. They also have the opportunity to choose a new book from our school library each week.