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Parent workshop Year 5. Topics for Year 5. Autumn Term – Stargazers Space Centre visit . Earth and Space science – The Solar System, Day and Night. History of space explorations. Art – The Artist Peter Thorpe (Space Art) Hyperlinked power points.
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Topics for Year 5 • Autumn Term – Stargazers Space Centre visit. • Earth and Space science – The Solar System, Day and Night. • History of space explorations. • Art – The Artist Peter Thorpe (Space Art) • Hyperlinked power points. • Literacy: Non-chronological reports, recounts, alien descriptions, newspaper reports, explanation texts (why is there life on Earth?) and fictional myth.
Topics for Year 5 • Spring 1 - Scream Machine • Visit – Theme Park? • Literacy: instructions, mystery narrative and narrative poetry. • DT focussed project.
Topics for Year 5 • Spring 2 – Beast Creator • Mini beast focus
Topics for Year 5 • Summer Off With Her Head! (Residential and Shakespeare performance) • Literacy – persuasive writing and preparation work for residential. • History - Tudors
Styles of reading in school • Daily reading / RWI • / guided comprehension. • Individual reading turns • **READING SPEED** • Reading for home: • Free choice books (as many as wanted) • Reading scheme (books and home/school diaries to be handed in on a Wednesday for a new book that day).
Spellings in school • SPAG • Taught spelling patterns / rules • Children must be able to apply these spellings across a range of written work. • Spelling log books.
Grammar (recapping previous years) • Nouns, pronouns • Adverbs and adverbial phrases • Expressing time and cause through: conjunctions, adverbs and prepositions • Subordinate clauses • The present perfect tense
Grammar (new learning) • Relative clauses (who, which, when, that, an…) • A wider range of adverbs. • Use of modal verbs in their writing. • Commas used correctly to avoid ambiguity. • Convert nouns or adjectives into verbs (e.g. intensify).
Handwriting • Children in Year 5 are expected to join fluently. • Never join after a capital letter. • Some letters are ‘break letters’ • b, p, z, g, y • Letter formation
Times tables • End of Year 2 expectations: • 2x 5x 10x • End of Year 3 expectations: • As above and 3x 4x 8x • End of Year 4 expectations: • As above plus all others up to 12x12 • RAPID RECALL IN ANY ORDER AND CORRESPONDING DIVISION FACTS