Year 5 - Swallow And Amazon & The BFG
Swallows and Amazons & The BFGs
Autumn 1
As Readers
We will be reading the book, ‘KENSUKE’S KINGDOM”. As part of this, we will be inferring meaning, exploring vocabulary, making predictions, retrieving information and summarising what we have read. Grammar: nouns, pronouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, prepositions, interjections, and conjunctions. Figurative language.
Our whole class reading sessions will be linked to our history topic, ‘Japan’. We will be focussing on non-fiction texts and their features. There will be a focus on developing fluency and expression. In addition, we shall practise the skills of retrieval, skimming, scanning and dictionary work. We will use these texts: NARRATIVES BASED ON FAMOUS POETRY Dulce Et Decorum Est – poem VES Lucy Gray – poem. The Highwayman – poem VIERS The Raven – poem VERS The Listeners – poem.
As writers
We are going to investigate an learn about Japan and we will write: Diary entry “BQ: How did I survive the storm?” and Information text, “BQ: What are the physical features of Japan?”
As Mathematicians
Addiction & Subtraction Multiplication & Division. Some or our Big Questions will be: W1: What letters are used in the Roman number system? W2: How do you partition numbers? W3: What place value column should you look at to round to the nearest 10,000? W4: Which number goes at the top when using column subtraction? W5: How can inverse operations help to find missing numbers? W6: Why does any pair of numbers have at least one common factor? W7: What is a cube number?
Key Vocabulary: same, different, object, count, counter, numeral zero, more, less, countdown, match, fewer, less than, greater than, equal, compare, order, most, fewest , shape, 3-d, faces, edges, 2-d Pattern.
AS SCIENTISTS
Year 5 will learn about Earth in Space. We will investigate this topic and we will answer some Big Questions such as: W1: How do the Sun, Earth and Moon move in relation to one another? W2: Why do we have night and day? W3: How are seasons created by the Earth’s tilt? W4: What are the phases of the moon? W5: What are the differences between Geo and heliocentric models? W6: What are the planets in our solar system?
Key Vocabulary: Celestial, Sun, Moon, Earth, Spherical, Solar System, Orbit, Solstice, Axis, Tilted, Hemisphere, Spherical, Reflected, Shadow, Waxing, Waning Theories, Geocentric, Heliocentric planets (Mercury, Jupiter, Saturn, Venus, Mars, Uranus, Neptune),
AS GEOGRAPHERS
We will take a closer look at Japan. W1: Where is Japan? W2: How do longitude and latitude locate a country? W3: What causes earthquakes? W4: What are the physical features of Japan? W5: What is the culture of Japan like? W6: How is school different in Japan?
Key vocabulary: human and physical features, latitude, longitude, meridian, equator, cities, county, countries, map, atlas.
AS ARTISTS:
We will be exploring the work and life of Hokusai, what is block printing? What would Kensuke’s wave look like? What colours does Hokusai use? How can printing create depth? How can printing create depth? As part of this we will be recreating his artwork using paint.
RELIGIOUS EDUCATION:
BUDDHISM Pupils are to investigate Buddhism and focus on some of the key elements of the religion, including key beliefs, holy book, place of worship and main celebration. How did Buddhism begin? BQ: What happened at Buddhas birth? BQ: Can you explain the four sights?
PSHE:
Being me in my world (Jigsaw) BQ1: What are your personal learning goals for this year? BQ2: What is the difference between a migrant, an asylum seeker and a refugee? BQ3: Can you identify what you need to learn effectively? BQ4: How about a consequence if children were not showing responsible behaviour and their rights were being ignored? BQ5: How to solve a conflict? BQ6: How democracy can benefit the school community?
