Year 5 Curriculum Information
Term: Spring Term 2025
Home Learning:
All Maths (online MyMaths) will be set on Wednesday and due in on Wednesday (children have logins for this)
Spellings will be set on Wednesday and your children will be tested on Wednesday. We will remind you on Google Classroom what list is being taught that week so you can access Spelling Shed to practise. (children have logins for this)
English homework will be set on Wednesdays and due in on the following Wednesday. This will alternate between a paper reading comprehension one week and four pages of the CGP book (grammar book) the next week.
Times tables are tested weekly on Wednesday. Your child will bring home the times table that they are on to practise at home.
Rapid Recall- tested on Wednesday. Your child will bring home their marked rapid recall on Friday so you can see how well they are doing.
The expectation is that all children must complete their homework.
PE
Both Y50 and Y5K will have their PE on Wednesdays and Thursdays. On Thursdays, Coach Costa will teach them dodgeball and tag rugby. Their class teachers will teach them dance on Wednesdays in the hall.
RE:
Throughout the year, OLM focuses on different elements of Catholic Social Teaching (CST Rooted in Love). Each term we look at a different value and discuss what each one means:
Autumn 1 - Care of Creation
Autumn 2 - Preferential Option for the Poor
Spring 1 - Solidarity and Peace
Spring 2 - Community and Participation
Summer 1 - Dignity of Workers
Summer 2 - Human Dignity
We follow the ‘Come and See’ scheme of work. Each topic usually lasts for four weeks.
Topic 4: Mission (4 weeks)
The experience of community is an essential and enjoyable part of life for people of every age and faith. The cycle of a year and the span of a lifetime contain occasions for regular celebrations as well as unexpected surprises, when people want to celebrate with family, friends and communities.
Topic 5: Memorial sacrifice (1 week)
Being thoughtful for life, for people and gifts, is a vital part of our relationships with one another. When praise and appreciation are experienced, we are enabled to relate on a deeper level.
English
Beowulf (Retold by Rob Lloyd Jones) What is the most heroic deed in Beowulf?
Why do people migrate?
Reading:
Destination Reader is the approach to teaching reading which we take in key stage 2. It involves three sessions per week incorporating whole class modelling of reading strategies prior to the children applying these skills through partner work and independent reading. Teachers and children will use a range of strategies to aid comprehension and encourage the teaching of reading with meaning and to support reading with pleasure. We are currently reading Friend or Foe.
Maths:
Children should now be confident in all their times tables (up to the 12 times table). Children should be able to answer related questions quickly and fluently. Please practise these at home with your child on a daily basis.
Maths No Problem will be used throughout Year 5 and the children will be continuing to use Rapid Recall to develop and consolidate mental maths skills.
Most Maths No Problem chapters include problem solving activities where children will be consolidating and extending their use and understanding of bar modelling method. All children will be expected to complete reasoning challenges related to the topic of study.
Rapid Recall will be given out weekly. Rapid Recall is very important to practise mental maths skills.
MyMaths home learning tasks will be set online every Monday.
We will be covering the following topic areas this term:
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Times Tables
Pupils should know times tables: 1-12 and will be tested weekly on the times table they are on.
If a child gets 3 or more times tables incorrect, he/she will need to repeat the test until they score 2 or less incorrect. If a child scores 2 or less incorrectly then that is a pass and he/she will be able to move onto the next times table.
This is the order in which we test the children on times tables:
10, 5, 11, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9, 12 and then Ultimate Times Table Challenge – combination of times tables.
As the weeks go on, the children will be at different stages.
Repetition is key! Please use the TT Rockstars website to practise.
Fluency
Chapter 6: Fractions (long chapter- 4 weeks)
Revision 2
Mid year revision (1week)
(Revision as and when needed)
Science:
Forces (HEP)
- explain that unsupported objects fall towards the Earth because of the force of gravity acting between the Earth and the falling object
- identify the effects of air resistance, water resistance and friction, that act between moving surfaces
• recognise that some mechanisms including levers, pulleys and gears allow a smaller force to have a greater effect
Computing:
Programming A
TBC -physical computing
Relationships & Communication
Keeping Games Fun and Friendly
E-safety
The popularity of social networking sites is growing. It is important for children to know how to protect themselves and behave responsibly when they are part of an online community.
Children must use technology safely, respectfully and responsibly; recognise acceptable and unacceptable behaviour; identify a range of ways to report concerns about content and contact.
How to make ourselves SMART online:
- SAFE - keep safe, do not give out personal information
- MEET - don't meet someone you have met/spoken to online
- ACCEPTING - don't accept messages from people you don't know
- RELIABLE - information may not always be true
- TELL - tell your parent/carer if something makes you feel uncomfortable or worried
A useful website for e-safety: http://www.kidsmart.org.uk/
Computing Systems & Networks
Systems and searching
Media balance & wellbeing
My Media Choices
History and Geography
Vikings 1: Lady of the Mercians
Migration
Art/DT
This half term the children's DT topic will be Building Bridges. They will be using a range of materials including spaghetti and wood to build bridges.
Music
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Building on from singing and performing South and West African music the focus will be: (1 week) Familiarise chl with the topic. Musical theatre -Play and perform in solo and ensemble contexts, using their voices and playing musical instruments with increasing accuracy, fluency, control and expression -Improvise and compose music for a range of purposes using the interrelated dimensions of music -Listen with attention to detail and recall sounds with increasing aural memory -Use and understand staff and other musical notations (3 weeks) - Using the interrelated dimensions as above, adjust lessons to include performance prep’ for the song ‘This is Me’ - Neuro Diversity week 4. Wk 2: Master the lyrics for ‘This is Me’ and evaluate two versions - how the lyrics and the change in tempo boost emotions needed for a live performance (musical theatre). Wk 3: Examine how we can incorporate ukulele chords in the rhythm and structure of the song. Wk 4 : Master the final rehearsal. Using the music sheet created by Yr6, Yr 5 are to examine and play the ukulele chords with accompanying backing music. Chldn sing in ensemble groups / solo with accompanying ukulele chords. |
