Year 5

Mrs Weeks & Miss Wilkinson

Art – As artists we will:

• Explore the artwork of famous print makers.
• Explore reduction block printing.
• Explore the work of Anna Atkins to create prints.
• Combine Printing.
• Create our own print design.

Computing – We will:

• Creating games as Game creators.
• 3D modelling.
• Investigating concept maps.

Design Technology – As designers we will be investigating and create a structure. We will:

• Investigate and evaluate a range of existing frame structures.
• Practise skills and techniques needed to accurately join framework.
• Make a teepee structure.

History – As historians we will study the history of Ancient Benin City:

• Where and what was the Kingdom of Benin.
• The Obas - rulers of Benin.
• The Edo religion and the Edo state.
• Benin and Europe and the looting of the Benin Bronzes.
• Benin Bronzes.

English – As writers and communicators we will:

• Write a setting description.
• Write an invitation to a feast.
• Write a job advertisement / wanted posters.
• Letter writing – Beowulf to home.
• Recount of the feast in mead-hall.
• Explanation text writing – how to kill a monster.
• To create a map from detail in text place.

French ­ -  As French linguists we will learn about ‘Chez Moi’:

• Say and understand where we live.
• Repeat, recognise and attempt to spell up to ten nouns.
• Be able to ask others about their home.
• Attempt to create a longer spoken or written passage.

Geography - The Globe. We will:

• Identify the equator, the tropics of Cancer and Capricorn and the Greenwich meridian.
• Identify the position and significance of latitude and longitude, the Equator, Northern and Southern Hemispheres, the tropics of Cancer and Capricorn,
  Arctic and Antarctic Circle, the prime/Greenwich meridian.
• Begin to identify the position of time zones (including night and day).
• To know the names of and locate some of the world’s deserts and describe what that environment is like.

Mathematics – As mathematicians we will be:

• Converting units of measure.
• Calculating with whole numbers and decimals.
• 2-D and 3-D shape.
• Estimate and calculating volume.
• Problem solving.

Music - This term our music is focused around ‘Dancing In The Street’ by Martha And The Vandellas as well as consolidating everything we have learnt this year.

P.E. – As athletes we will:

• Play net games and partake in Forest School.
• Carry out athletics to prepare for our sports day.
• Improve our swimming technique and water confidence.

R.E. – As theologians we will:

Life in the Risen Jesus

• Understand that Jesus is risen from the dead.
• Learn that Jesus is present among us in different ways.
• Learn that there are different ways of praying.
• Reflect on Jesus’ teaching and example on prayer.
• Learn how to pray the Rosary.

The Transforming Spirit :

• Know about the Ascension.
• Understand what happened at Pentecost.
• Understand how the Holy Spirit worked through the Apostles.
• Understand that the popes are successors of St. Peter.

RPSHE - As we are continuing to develop we will:

• Learn about the importance of mobile phone safety.
• Learn about how we will grow and change.
• Learn about what jobs we will like.

Science – We will be learning about the planets in our Solar System and forces. We will:

• Be using Mathematics to model the dimensions of our solar system.
• Be describing the movement of the earth and moon relative to the sun in our solar system.
• Be identifying evidence that has been used to support a theory.
• Be describing the movement of the moon relative to the earth.
• Be using simple models to explain scientific areas, such as day and night.
• Be explaining some of the effect of gravity.
• Be planning, carrying out and explaining a fair test to find out how well different objects fall.
• Be observing a variety of forces that slow things down.