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The Creation unit in Years 5 and 6 enables the children to explore how we become co-creators. The starting point for exploration is the two creation stories in Genesis. They will explore the questions raised by these two stories and what Creation means today. The children will reflect on their own God-given talents and how the live their lives in response to the teaching of Christ and as co-creators who need to protect God’s creation.

English

The book that we will be using to base our learning around will be Goodnight Mister Tom by Michelle Magorian. This book is about a neglected child from a deprived home in London, Willie Beech. Willie is evacuated to the country during the Second World War to live with Tom Oakley, an old widower. With Tom, Willie flourishes, develops friendships and finds real happiness and security for the first time. Then he has to return to London to his mother, and his old life experiences wait for him again there, only to worsen. This is an accessible, but powerful, emotionally charged novel, which explores themes like safety and trust, parenting, fear and loss.

 The overall aims of this teaching sequence are:

 ▪ To engage children with a story with which they will empathise.

▪ To explore themes and issues, and develop and sustain ideas through discussion, enabling children to make connections with their own lives.

▪ To develop creative responses to the text through drama, storytelling and artwork.

▪ To compose poetry.

▪ To write in role in order to explore and develop empathy for characters.

▪ To write with confidence for real purposes and audiences.

Maths

Year 5 and 6 children will start their Maths with number and place value, including understanding and recognising numbers up to millions. The next unit is decimals where children will be able to recognise and round numbers with decimal places. We will then be moving on to Geometry- properties of shape.

PE

The three classes have PE on different days. Lions PE day is Tuesday, Elephants is Wednesday, Jaguars is  Thursday. Please ensure your child is wearing the correct PE uniform. The unit we will be covering up to Christmas are Hockey, Tag Rugby, Netball and Dance.

Music

We follow the Charanga scheme of work and will be looking at Livin’ on a Prayer by Bon Jovi. Throughout this unit we will be appraising the music, develop our musical language and understanding, singing and use the Glockenspiels.

Guided Reading

Children's word level and comprehension skills will be developed through whole class guided reading sessions and one to one reading. 

Phonics

Phonics is carried out on a one to one basis or within a small intervention group based on the ability of the child. These are regularly assessed and we follow Little Wandle for these.

Computing

The unit is called Systems and Searching. Children develop their understanding of computer systems and how information is transferred between systems and devices. They consider small-scale systems as well as large-scale systems. They explain the input, output, and process aspects of a variety of different real-world systems. Children discover how information is found on the World Wide Web, through learning how search engines work (including how they select and rank results) and what influences searching, and through comparing different search engines. 

French

The units for this term are phonics and Les Fruits. We will be revising the key sounds that are used in French. In Les Fruits they will  name and recognise up to 10 fruits in French, attempt to spell some of these nouns, ask somebody in French if they like a particular fruit and say what fruits they like and dislike.

Topic

We will be studying History this term. We will be studying World War Two, in particular what was the impact of World War Two on people in Britain. Pupils who are secure will be able to ;

·         Identify the causes of World War 2.

·         Identify the different phases in the Battle of Britain.

·         Make inferences and deductions about a photograph.

·         Describe how children may have felt when evacuated.

·         Evaluate the accuracy and reliability of sources.

·         Describe the impact WW2 had on women’s lives.

In Geography next term we will be considering what is life like in the Alps. Pupils who are secure will be able to:

·         Locate the Alps on a world map and identify and label the eight countries they spread through.

·         Locate three physical and three human characteristics in the Alps.

·         Research and describe the physical and human features of Innsbruck.

·         Use a variety of data collection methods including completing a questionnaire, mapping their route and recording their findings in sketches or photographs.

·         Compare the human and physical geography of their local area and Innsbruck.

·         Describe at least four of the key aspects of the human and physical geography of the Alps to answer the enquiry question, ‘What is life like in the Alps?’

Art and Design Technology

We will be doing Design Technology first. This unit is called Electrical Systems; Doodlers. The unit for Art is Drawing: I need space.

Science

This unit ‘Electricity’ takes children through six lessons where they learn how to: associate the brightness of a lamp or the volume of a buzzer with the number and voltage of cells used in the circuit; they learn how to compare and give reasons for variations in how components function, including the brightness of bulbs, the loudness of buzzers and the on/off position of switches; and finally, they use recognised symbols when representing a simple circuit in a diagram.