Class 5

• Stories based around a journey using Floodland by Marcus Sedgwick as inspiration.
• 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 of world civilisations
• Chronology of Vikings and Anglo-Saxons.
• The Vikings and Anglo-Saxons – homes, diet, lifestyle and how they compare to our modern lifestyles.
• Why did they settle in in Britain?

• Art – sculpture – making Viking cups.
• D.T – sewing – making Christmas decorations.

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

• What does it mean if Christians believe God is holy and loving?
• What does it mean to be a Muslim in Britain today?

• Studying “Dancing in the Street” by Martha and the Vandellas.
• Studying Holst and his “Suite of Planets”.

• Five ways to wellbeing.
• School values.
• Me and my relationships.