Download Spring 1 2017 – Year 5 - Radford Semele C Of E Primary School

Year 5
Spring First Half Term - Information to Parents
Literacy:
What we will be covering:
Poetry with Attitude!
To imagine and explore feelings, ideas and emotions, focusing
on the creative use of language.
To explore personal and collective responses to poetry
To compare forms of poetry and techniques used for effect
To explore how poets use language for comic and dramatic
effect
To recite some poetry for performance
To write in response to issues raised
Traditional Tales From Other Cultures
To explore a range of literature from different cultures and
traditions
To read and compare different types of narrative texts and
identify how they are structured
To infer author’s perspectives from what is written and from
what is inferred
To explore how writers use language for dramatic effect
To write in different narrative forms and styles
To explore the impact of character behaviour and motive on
others, including the reader
What we will be targeting:
What you might like to do at
home:
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Understand word classes
Sentence structure, including complex sentences and
adding in embedded clauses.
Varying sentence openers for effect
Look for good examples of complex sentences and
different sentence openers when reading with your
child.
Numeracy:
What we will be covering:
What we will be targeting:
What you might like to do at
home:
To interpret negative numbers in context, count forwards and backwards
with positive and negative whole numbers through zero.
know and apply multiplication and division facts to 12 x 12
derive squares and squares of multiples of 10 using multiplication facts
identify all factor pairs of a given number using knowledge of division facts
To identify, describe and represent the position of a shape following a
reflection or translation using the appropriate language, and know that
the shape has not changed.
To round any number up to 1,000,000 to the nearest 10, 100, 1000, 10,000
and 100,000.
understand the term and definition of a prime number as having only two
factors, 1 and itself, and that non-prime numbers are referred to as
composite numbers
establish that some numbers have factors that are also prime numbers –
these are referred to as prime factors
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add and subtract fractions with the same denominator converting
between mixed numbers and improper fractions when necessary
e.g. 2/5 + 4/5 = 6/5 = 1 1/5
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Continue to practice times tables. Try to involve children
where maths is apparent in ‘real life’ situations. E.g. money
and temperature differences across the world, timetables,
measuring
Science: Properties and changes of materials
What we will be covering:
What you might like to do at
home:
Properties and changes of materials
The children will be able to:
compare and group together everyday materials on the basis of their
properties, including their hardness, solubility, transparency, conductivity
(electrical and thermal), and response to magnets
know that some materials will dissolve in liquid to form a solution, and
describe how to recover a substance from a solution
use knowledge of solids, liquids and gases to decide how mixtures might be
separated, including through filtering, sieving and evaporating
give reasons, based on evidence from comparative and fair tests, for the
particular uses of everyday materials, including metals, wood and plastic
Any practical activities that might have a science link. E.g cooking;
irreversible changes.
Theme Learning (Art, Design and Technology, History, Geography): Mexico
and the Mayans.
What we will be covering:
History:
A study of the history of the Olympic Games, locating where they have
been held in the past and the sporting events that they consisted of.
Geography:
A study of the locality of Rio and its geographical features, including key
landmarks
A study of the impact of the Olympic Games on the environment of Rio
ad Brazil.
Art:
Look at posters/artwork that have been created to mark the Olympics and
recreate some posters and images of our own.
What you might like to do at
home:
Weekly Homework:
 Maths homework will be given on Wednesday and is to be returned the following
Monday.
 Literacy homework will be given on a Thursday and is to be handed in on the
following Wednesday.
 Each child will be given reading homework each week. This should be completed
ready for their next reading session in school.