Class 5

• Stories based around a warning being given.
• Non Chronological reports.
• Improving fiction writing by focusing on uplevelling vocabulary, sentence structure and punctuation.

• Applying knowledge of number and place value to order numbers – positive and negative.
• Rounding whole numbers from the nearest ten to the nearest million.
• Written and mental methods for addition, subtraction.
• Multiplication and division of whole numbers, including factors, prime, square and cube numbers.
• Fractions – equivalent fractions, comparing and ordering fractions and adding/subtracting fractions.

• Electricity – how it was discovered and how it is used in today’s world.
• Investigating circuits and symbols for drawing circuits
• Forces – how we use them in our everyday lives to our advantage.
• Air resistance, gravity, water resistance and friction.

• What is a computer?
• E-safety – how to remain safe online, information sharing, security of websites and passwords.
• Searching for information safely.

History

• Chronology
• The legacy of the ancients’ cultures.
• What is a civilisation?
• Study of the Mayans, Egyptians and the Greeks.

• Art – sculpture.
• D.T – cooking – making Christmas treats.

• Invasion games – working and playing as a team, using attacking and defensive strategies in the context of tag rugby and lacrosse.
• Dance.

• What influence does believing in God as Trinity have for Christian worldviews?
• How does Hajj show what matters to Muslims in Britain?

• Studying and learning “Joseph’s Dreams” from Joseph and his Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat.
• Studying John Williams (film composer)

• Five ways to wellbeing – supporting positive mental health
• School values: being ambitious, resilient, responsible, cooperative and kind
• Zones of Regulation – We will be following a series of lessons to learn about the four zones of regulation. We will learn the names of many different emotions, and learn to categorise them into green, blue, yellow or red zones. We will learn the importance of self-regulation when in each zone, as well as finding out about some tools we can use to help with this.
• Being my Best