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English
Classic Fiction
Required texts:
The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling
Just So stories by Rudyard Kipling
Description:
Children explore the charm and challenge of classic fiction. They write a modern-day Jungle Book story, Just So Stories diary entries, and tell outrageous lies, courtesy of conjunctions. The unit ends with children performing their own Just So Story in Kipling’s style.
Grammar focus:
Recounts
Required texts:
UFOs and Aliens: Investigating Extraterrestrial Visitors – Extreme! By Paul Mason
UFO Diary by Satoshi Kitamura
Description
Using the context of UFOs, children explore recounts: Investigating genuine documents, discussing famous sighting & researching notorious hoaxes. Children write a diary entry and create their own hoax UFO photo and report. A presentation to parents completes the unit.
Grammar focus:
Learn the grammar in App.2 specifically using adverbials of time, space and number
Use commas correctly, including to clarify meaning, avoid ambiguity and to indicate parenthesis
Use expanded noun phrases to convey complicated information concisely
Required texts:
The Walrus and the Carpenter by Lewis Carroll
Cautionary Tales by Hilaire Belloc
Description:
Carroll’s Walrus and the Carpenter stimulate performance, discussion and persuasive writing, in this poetry unit. Belloc’s Cautionary Tales provide cause for debate and the chn end the unit writing their own modern day cautionary poems.
Grammar focus:
Year 5 Spellings from National Literacy Strategy
In addition: comprehension texts from various sources. Grammar, punctuation and spelling workbooks. Assembly. Verse-speaking competition (voluntary). Verbal reasoning.
Maths
Week |
Mathematics topic covered |
Objective covered |
1 |
Number (place value in whole numbers) and Written Addition
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2 |
Number (place value in decimals) and Written Addition of money
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3 |
Written and Mental subtraction
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4 |
SHAPE
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5 |
Mental multiplication and division and Fractions
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6 |
Number, place value and Written multiplication
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7 |
Mental multiplication and division and Written Division
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8 |
Number, place value and Written subtraction
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9 |
MEASURES/DATA
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10 |
Fractions
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11 |
Mental and written addition and subtraction and Written multiplication
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12 |
ASSESS AND REVIEW
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Science
Materials’ properties (database & investigation), rocks & soils, geology including melting rocks, gases around us, temperature, conductors & insulators, freezing & melting, evaporation, condensation, the water cycle, line graphs, dissolving, cleaning investigation, separating mixtures, reactions, rusting, earth in space.
Geography
Weather.
History
James 1-The Pilgrim fathers and the Gunpowder Plot.
Religious Studies
Where did the Christian Bible come from?
French
Healthy eating
Latin
Word patterns – masculine & feminine. Translation practice. Roman beliefs and practices, gladiators.
ICT
Scratch, Publisher, PowerPoint, ECDL, database, Excel (line graph), data logging, video files, Adobe, science explorer, Moviemaker, interactive story.
Art
Prep V |
AUTUMN |
DRAWING |
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PAINTING |
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COLLAGE 3D TEXTILES |
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