Year 5/ Year 6 Class

Teacher: Mr Bell

Teaching assistants: Mrs Bromley

English

In English we will first be writing a persuasive holiday brochure encouraging people to visit the Austrian town of Innsbruck. The children will try writing their own poetry based on the poem ‘A Tiger in the Zoo’ by Leslie Norris. This will be followed by the book ‘Malala’s Magic Pencil’ by Malala Yousefzai with the main focus on writing a biography. Throughout the term, we will also be looking at a variety of punctuation and grammar that Upper Key Stage 2 children should be using.

Maths

In maths we will begin with the place value of decimals and decimals with integers. Once the children have mastered this, we will move onto adding, subtracting, multiplying and dividing decimals. Later in the term, we will cover decimal, fraction and percentage equivalents before going on to finding percentages of amounts. In the second part of the term, we will look at perimeter, area, volume and converting different units of measure.

Topic

Our first topic is called ‘Unheard histories: Who should go on the £10 banknote? We will work on a range of historical skills including extracting information from sources, evaluating historical figures and deciding the criteria for significance.  Later we will investigate ‘Why does population change?’ where we will look at a range of factors which influence population and complete a geography fieldwork task.

Science, DT, Art and Computing

Our first science topic is ‘Earth and Space’ where we will learn about: the planets of our solar system and their movement around the sun, the movement of the moon around the Earth and the concepts of day and night. In the second half term, we will look at ’Electricity’ where we learn about: different components in an electrical circuit, how these can be affected by the voltage in a battery and applying these to complete scientific enquiries. In design and technology, we are going to work with ‘microbits’ in order to create a monitoring device. In art, we are going to work around the theme of ‘making memories’ in the form of 3D sculptures. Long Mynd will learn about programming and how to use variables in a computer program in addition to using spreadsheets.

Reading

In Long Mynd, we have a mini challenge to see who can read the most throughout the whole year with the aim of reading over 1 million words! We also have a recommended list of 20 books that the children can read. Alongside these books there is a wide range of books for your child to choose from in class. In school, we provide daily reading opportunities, some of which are guided where we focus on the following skills: vocabulary, inference, prediction, explanation, retrieval and summarising. We are going to be reading ‘The Witches’ by Roald Dahl. Also we will look at a range of non-fiction texts and shorter fiction texts. For those children who require further support with their reading they will take part in additional reading sessions as much as possible.

Other

In PSHE we will cover ‘bullying, ways to keep ourselves healthy and money management’. Long Mynd class will continue with ukulele lessons. PE this term will be OAA, gymnastics, swimming, tennis and netball. Within RE, we will be focussing on what it means to be a Muslim in Britain today.