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Year 5
Welcome
Welcome to Year 5’s webpage, here you will find out what topics we are learning about every term. We’re excited to announce that this year our learning will continue to be be based on a creative curriculum to keep us in line with the UK National Curriculum. Here at Oakley, our trial projects have already proved popular and successful! Teaching and learning will adopt a cross-curricular approach, with a broad termly focus, enabling our pupils to develop their skills and knowledge within and between subject areas. Participation in stimulating and relevant learning experiences will promote independence, creativity and critical thinking, in addition to our ongoing emphasis on the personal and social development of pupils within a confident learning community.
Curriculum
The Greeks
In the first term, Year 5’s creative curriculum focus is The Greeks. Through the foundation subjects, your child will have the opportunity to investigate aspects of life in ancient and modern Greece, through a variety of activities designed to develop problem solving and thinking skills. In order to illuminate this topic further, we hope to take the children on excursions, details of which will be on the website nearer the time.
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English
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Novels and Stories by Significant Childrens Authors (Roald Dahl)
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Using a range of Roald Dahl books and stories we will explore how to structure stories in a clear and interesting way, for example how to get the reader hooked from the very beginning. |
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Film and Graphic Stories
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We shall be discussing some alternative ways in which stories are presented. We shall look at film and at graphic stories – these are stories presented in graphic or comic strip format. |
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Poetry (Choral/Performance)
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Reading and performing a range of poems as the Greeks did. We will also write our own performance poems to share with the class. |
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Persuasive writing
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We will explore how to persuade people, for example travel brochures to Greece, letters and posters, by first examining a range of persuasive texts, evaluating them and then creating our own. |
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Science |
Keeping Healthy
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We will learn that there are many aspects to keeping healthy. Children will learn about the heart and how heart beat is affected by exercise and relate this to what they already know about movement and exercise. |
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Changing Sounds
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Learning that sounds are made by vibrations; investigating how these can travel through different materials; investigating how pitch and loudness can be changed. |
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ICT |
Monotoring Environmental conditions and changes
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Learning that devices can be connected to a computer to monitor and measure changes in environmental conditions. |
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Graphical Modelling
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Learning how to use an object-based graphics package to produce images and visual models. |
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History |
Who Were the Ancient Greeks?
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Learning about the way people lived in the ancient Greek empire. We will use a range of archaeological and written sources, select and record information and interpret the past in different ways. We wlll look at and compare the city states of Athens and Sparts, we will find out all about the Greek gods and goddesses and we will learn about famous Greek battles.
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How Do We Use Greek Ideas Today?
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We will use our own experience, particularly of being at school and the olympic games as a springboard to find out about the influence that the ancient Greeks continue to have on our lives. We will also look for examples of Ancient Greek Architecture in modern buildings around the world and in Gran Canaria. |
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Geography |
Passport to the World
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Learning about places and their locations. The range of activities are designed to ensure that, over time, children learn about places, where the places are and how they are connected. |
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Art |
Containers
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We will examine the art styles and techniques used by the Ancient Greeks to design our own Greek pots. |
English
In addition to our units in English, children will further their knowledge of phonic and spelling conventions, as well as extending their grammatical awareness, as part of their ongoing pursuit of the English language. In addition to exposing the children to a range of literary genres and creative writing, we will seek to improve their written work through the extension of their technical skills in English, including punctuation and sentence structure.
Maths
Here are a list of the maths topics that we will study throughout the term:
Number
Place Value ordering and rounding
Understanding multiplication and division – mental & paper and pencil procedures
Money and real life problems
Fractions, decimals and percentages
Ratios and proportion
Properties of numbers
Reasoning about numbers
Shape Space and Measure
Handling Data
Reasoning about shapes
Angles
These maths topics will be repeated and extended each term.
Children will be assessed throughout the term, through the use of summative and formative testing. You may support and find out more about your child´s learning using the information provided on this website.
Useful websites:
www.bbc.co.uk/schools/ks2bitesize
Spanish Curriculum
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Ortografía |
Palabras agudas, llanas y esdrújulas. La tilde en las palabras agudas, llanas y esdrújulas. Uso de la coma y de los dos puntos. Inducción y aplicación de normas de uso de la “v”. |
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Gramática |
Tipos de oraciones: interrogativas, exclamativas, enunciativas… Partes de la oración: sujeto y predicado. Género y número del nombre. Los determinantes: artículos, posesivos y determinantes. El adjetivo calificativo: su concordancia en género y número con el nombre. Uso de los pronombres personales en el sujeto. |
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Léxico |
Familias de palabras por derivación usando sufijos y prefijos. Aumentativos y Diminutivos. Los gentilicios. |
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Expresión Escrita |
La carta. El diario personal. Las definiciones. Poemas con rimas. La autobiografía. |
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Lectura |
Cuentos con enseñanzas. El diario personal. Los relatos mitológicos. Los poemas. Uso del diccionario. |
