Curriculum_information T1 2
Teacher/s: Mrs Mifflin/Mrs Pandya
KS2 Teaching Assistants: Mrs Yorke/Miss Bingle
Curriculum information
Class 5
Terms 1 & 2
Our class topic for term 1 is “The Anglo-Saxons and Vikings.
Here are some of the things we will be doing and learning about this term:
| English |
- 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.
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| Maths |
- 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.
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| Science |
- 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.
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| Computing |
- What is a computer?
- E-safety – how to remain safe online, information sharing, security of websites and passwords.
- Searching for information safely.
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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?
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| DT / Art |
- Art – sculpture – making Viking cups.
- D.T – sewing – making Christmas decorations.
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| PE
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- Invasion games – working and playing as a team, using attacking and defensive strategies in the context of tag rugby, basketball and netball.
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| RE |
- What does it mean if Christians believe God is holy and loving?
- What does it mean to be a Muslim in Britain today?
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| Music
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- Studying “Dancing in the Street” by Martha and the Vandellas.
- Studying Holst and his “Suite of Planets”.
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| PSHCE |
- Five ways to wellbeing.
- School values.
- Me and my relationships.
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