160 likes | 174 Views
Parent workshop Year 5. Topics for Year 5. Autumn 1 – Rockstars (music service visit) Literacy – Poetry (raps), Biography and Instructions Science – Separating Materials Geography – Rockstars from around the world DT – creating a musical instrument. Topics for Year 5.
E N D
Topics for Year 5 • Autumn 1 – Rockstars(music service visit) • Literacy – Poetry (raps), Biography and Instructions • Science – Separating Materials • Geography – Rockstars from around the world • DT – creating a musical instrument
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.
Topics for Year 5 • Spring 1 – 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, and Archie’ War Letters from the Lighthouse (core text)
Topics for Year 5 • Spring 2 – 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.
Topics for Year 5 • Summer 1 - Bloomin’ Rainforests (4 weeks + Residential) • Text: The Explorer • Literacy: persuasion and arguments. • Geography – grid references. • Science – Life Cycles.
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.
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 Tuesday 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 • 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).
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
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