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Year 5 Workshop Topics Overview

Explore the exciting curriculum for Year 5 students including space exploration, history, literature, science, geography, and more. Engage in interactive activities and enhance learning across various subjects.

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Year 5 Workshop Topics Overview

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  1. Parent workshopYear 5

  2. Topics for Year 5 • Autumn 1 – Stargazers Space Centre visit. • Earth and Space science. • History of space explorations. • Art – The Artist Peter Thorpe (Space Art) • Hyperlinked power points. ICT • Literacy: Descriptive settings, newspaper report and explanation texts.

  3. Topics for Year 5 • Autumn 2 – Highwayman • Science forces. • History – exploring and older text. • Art – Sketching and ink work. • Literacy: Poetry with be the main focus and responding appropriately to a text.

  4. Topics for Year 5 • Spring 1 - Expeliarmus (Harry Potter) • JK Rowling- significant author. • Literacy: biographies, film narrative and instructions. • DT – sewing – Hogwarts badge • Geography – grid references. • Science – separating materials.

  5. Topics for Year 5 • Spring 2 – Woeful World War Two (Eden camp visit) • History – evacuees, rations, significant dates. • Geography – UK study – comparing the countryside with the city. • Science – materials • DT – food • Literacy: Descriptive writing and diary writing. • Text focus: The Lion and the Unicorn.

  6. Topics for Year 5 • Summer 1 –Around The World In 80 Days (Residential) • Literacy – persuasive writing and preparation work for residential. • Science – life cycles • Geography – exploring an environmental issue. • DT – creating a 3D project. • History – briefly explore the Aztecs (stand alone).

  7. Topics for Year 5 • Summer 2 – Groovy Greeks • Literacy – narrative poetry and stories from other cultures. • Science – types of change. • Geography – exploring different settlements. • History – learn about the Ancient Greeks. • DT – pottery – clay.

  8. Class Routines

  9. Styles of reading in school • Daily reading / RWI • / guided comprehension. • Individual reading turns • Hooked on a Book • Reading for home: • Free choice books (as many as wanted) • Reading scheme (books and home/school diaries to be handed in on a Monday for a new book that day).

  10. 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.

  11. 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

  12. Grammar • Relative clauses (who, which, when, that, and where…) • A wider range of adverbs. • Use of modal verbs in their writing. (We should be finished pretty soon!) • Commas used correctly to avoid ambiguity. • Rachel Ray finds inspiration in cooking her family and her dog. • Convert nouns or adjectives into verbs (e.g. intense = intensify).

  13. 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

  14. 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 • Times Table Rockers Times tables

  15. Any questions?

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