Year 5/6

Find out what your child will be learning this year.

Year 5/6

Find out what your child will be learning this year.

Welcome to the Year 5/6 page. This is where you will find information that is specific to our year group, such as an outline of what we will be learning this term and our Year 5/6 routines and expectations.

We value the trust that you place in us and will endeavour to always do the best for every child in our care. We believe that successful education is a partnership between home, child and school and we look forward to working alongside you on your child’s journey through year 5/6.

Year 5 Curriculum Info

RE and PHSE:

This term, the Come and See topics for RE are:

Transformation
Stewardship
Freedom and Responsibility

PHSE will be guided by the Tenten PSHE scheme of work. Links between RE and PHSE will explore relationships and through finding out what makes healthy relationships and looking at ways to be a good friend.

English:

Children will enjoy reading a wide variety of texts and will learn to write in a wide range of genres. We aim to instil in our pupils a love for reading and writing, as well as confidence, stamina and creative, independent thinking.

Key texts covered:

There’s a Boy in the Girl’s Bathroom Louis Sacher
The London Eye Mystery Siobhan Dowd
I Know why the Caged Bird Sings Maya Angelou

Writing
Children will use the above texts to inspire their writing for a variety of purposes: playscripts, diary writing, letter writing, newspaper reports, chronological and non-chronological reports, narrative prose, poetry composition and performance.
The model texts help children to identify the key structures/features that may be used within a particular piece of writing. Key writing techniques are then explored to ensure pupils develop a strong understanding of these before creating extended pieces of writing that aims to include these.
Reading:
We aim to instil in our pupils a love of reading. English reading lessons explicitly teach each of the necessary skills for reading and comprehension of texts. Pupils also learn about each of the learning behaviours required for reading and will discuss texts with their partners and small groups. Children will also continue to answer “Big Picture” questions as a written comprehension skill that they need to master in preparation for Years 6 and beyond.
Key skills: prediction, questioning, clarifying, summarising, inferring, evaluating and making connections.
Spelling, Grammar and Punctuation:
Grammar is taught alongside the teaching of writing. Key year 5 skills include using: words classes, determiners, expanded noun phrases, elements of figurative language, modal verbs and fronted adverbials.
Key skills for punctuation: Using brackets, dashes and commas for extra information, using apostrophes for possession.
Spellings are taught via a weekly list of words which are introduced to pupils in class, then set as activities on the Spelling Shed website. During the Summer term, pupils are given a spelling list of 20 words.

Maths:

In year 5, we will continue to use the White Rose scheme of learning which aims to provide pupils with key mathematical skills and knowledge using a mastery approach. Using the CPA (concrete, pictorial, abstract) approach ALL children are encouraged to use equipment and visual representations in maths lessons and to learn conceptual and procedural variation to tackle problem solving and reasoning questions.

This term we will be focusing on:

Perimeter, Area and shape – with a focus on angles and using a protractor to draw angles accurately and measure in degrees.
Position and Direction – Co-ordinates, translating shapes and symmetry.
Decimals – Adding and subtracting numbers to 3 decimal places, multiplying and dividing by 10, 100, 1000
Negative numbers – understanding, comparing and ordering negative numbers.
Converting Units of Measurement – km/m/ mm/ ml, length, imperial and metric units, time and timetables

Science

Living things and their habitats- Life Cycles
Animals including humans– Moving and Growing

Guided by the HEP (Haringey Educational Partnership) Science Curriculum, children will develop an understanding of the nature, processes and methods of science through different types of science enquiries that will help them to answer scientific questions about the world around them. They will be equipped with the scientific knowledge required to understand the uses and implications of science, today and for the future. We will achieve this through practical investigations – working scientifically – as well as knowledge-based lessons.

Humanities

The Round City, Baghdad
Why is California so thirsty?

Year 5 also follows the Opening Worlds Humanities curriculum from the acclaimed Haringey Education Partnership (HEP). Each topic teaches a rigorous mixture of substantive and disciplinary content, to develop confident, knowledgeable historians and geographers.

Computing

Programming with Scratch

Drawing resources from the Teach Computing curriculum and others, pupils are taught the skills needed use computers creatively as well as expanding their computer literacy. ESafety is at the heart of all IT activities and children are given the skills to use ICT safely and responsibly.

PE

Year 5 take part in an LFA coach-led PE lesson every Tuesday. Sports coaches will focus on games and team sports such as: football, tennis, cricket and athletics.

Art & Design

Art and design focuses on linking to our humanities topics as well as cross-curriculum links with other subjects. Children will use a variety of media including chalk, pastels and water-colours in their art.

MFL

Children will continue Spanish lessons this term with Mrs Barratt.

Music

Children will take part in Music lessons with Miss Swift once a week. This term’s focus is on keyboard skills and composition linked to the year 5 Summer curriculum.`

Year 6 Curriculum Info

R.E

Spring Term 1

Topic 4 – SOURCES

How is my life enriched by books? How do books take a person beyond themselves?

Topic 5: Unity

What helps friendships grow? What makes unity between people? What undermines friendship and unity?

Spring Term 2

Topic 6 : Death and New Life

Why does loss and death bring about change? How do people cope with loss and death? Is it possible for good to come out of death and loss?

Year 6 Residential Trip. https://www.hilltopoutdoorcentre.co.uk/education/schools

6N Reading:

Romeo & Juliet – William Shakespeare

Key Skills: Prediction – Questioning – Clarifying – Summarising – Making Inferences – Evaluating – Making Connections – Combining Strategies

Writing:

Romeo & Juliet – William Shakespeare

Playscripts – Diary Writing – First Person Recount – Informal Letter Writing – Newspaper Report
Narrative Writing including descriptive writing

6M Reading:

The Tempest – William Shakespeare

Writing:

The Tempest – William Shakespeare
Playscripts – Diary Writing – First Person Recount – Informal Letter Writing – Newspaper Report
Narrative Writing including descriptive writing

GPS

Year 6 Grammar, Punctuation & Spelling Objectives