Summer 1
Summer 1
In Summer 1, we will continue to learn about the Vikings and their impact on Britain and locally. We will learn about their culture through our History, Writing and Reading for Inference lessons.
English
In Summer 1 we will be writing a journalistic recount text, seen through the eyes of a witness. Our stimulus for writing is a witness recount based on Smaug, the fearsome dragon from the classic story The Hobbit. Our Grammar learning for the term will be using narrative tenses, including the Past Simple, Past Progressive and Past Perfect, and fronted adverbials. Learning to edit and our handwriting will play a crucial role in our learning too.
Pupils should continue to use Bedrock at least twice a week at home to support with their vocabulary - it is also our aim to access this resource daily in school.
Vocabulary: verb, Past Simple, Past Progressive, Past Perfect, participle, fronted adverbial, recount, noun, noun phrase
Guided Reading - Reading for Inference
We will use a variety to texts - both fiction and non-fiction texts to enable us to apply our learning to a range of question types, and to make links between different books and our own growing general knowledge. We will continue to use text annotation as a method of exploring a text, and will build on our retrieval and inference reading skills. In order to support your child with both their grammar and reading at home, please use the following links: https://app.bedrocklearning.org/
https://gb.education.com/games/grammar/
http://www.eslgamesworld.com/members/games/grammar/index.html
Maths
We will learn about shape, position and direction, and continue with our learning about decimals. We will learn to classify, estimate, measure, draw and calculate angles. We will learn about length and angles in a shape. We will learn to read and plot coordinates, and translate using them. We will learn about lines of symmetry, and reflection in horizontal and vertical lines. We will add and subtract decimals. We will multiply and divide by 10, 100 and 1,000.
It is imperative that pupils are able to recall these facts in order to access the Year 5 curriculum thoroughly. We will be using Number and Lightning as the basis of our knowledge to support our arithmetic skills. Pupils will be taught operations in depth and will be tasked with using these in a variety of different contexts.
Vocabulary: rectilinear shape, polygon, degrees, angles, regular, irregular, 3D, compound shape, estimate, coordinates, plot, translation, lines of symmetry, horizontal, vertical decimal, decimal place, decimal point, decimal sequence, tenth, hundredth, thousandth, percentage,
Homework will continue to be set from the White Rose Maths Practice Journal. In order to support your child with their times table knowledge at home and with arithmetic in general, please use the following links:
https://timestable.pixl.org.uk/Timestables.html
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/subjects/z826n39
Science
In Summer 1 We will learn about sexual and asexual reproduction in plants, including cloning. We will also learn about dissolving, separating and evaporating solutions. We will also learn about reversible and irreversible changes through burning and acid.
Vocabulary: reproduce, reproduction, sexual, asexual, pollen, pollinate, pollination, clone, anther, filament, ovule, ovary, stigma, style, runner, tuber, bulb
History
We will continue our learning about the Vikings, investigating evidence of their time in Britain through looking at artefacts.
Vocabulary: Danelaw, artefact, evidence, perspective, bias, cause, effect, consequence, balanced
Religion and World views
Our big question for this term is ‘Who should get to be in charge?’. More information will be available at the beginning of the Summer term. Please check back in April 2024.
Music: Composition to represent the festival of colour (Holi festival)
The children will explore the associations between music, sounds and colour. They will compose and perform their own musical composition to represent Holi, the Hindu festival of colour that celebrates the beginning of spring and the triumph over good and evil.
Vocabulary: composition, Holi, celebration, graphic score, synaesthesia, major, minor, layering, pitch, dynamics, timbre, texture, structure, tempo, duration.
PSHE: Economic wellbeing
We will be looking at the risks associated with borrowing and lending money, and of using money online.
Vocabulary: economic, wellbeing, lose, steal, stolen, risk, chance, borrow, lend, income,
earn, spend, expenditure
MFL: French Food
This term, we will be saying ‘Bon Appetit!’ as we learn about naming foods in French. We will learn about making nouns plural. We will also learn about French money.
Vocabulary: la tomate, la pomme, la banana, les bonbons, J’aime, Je n’aime pas, mais
Computing: Online Safety
We will continue to learn about online safety through our class assembly time.
Vocabulary: accurate, advice, app, application, app permissions, in-app purchases, biography, communication, emojis, password, secure, mental health and well-being
Design and Technology: Cooking and Nutrition
The children will be thinking about where food comes from, and what makes food healthy. They will adapt a traditional recipe and produce a healthy dish of food.
Vocabulary: beef, reared, processed, ethical diet, ingredients, supermarket, farm, balanced
P.E.
Rounders
We will be building on previous learning including: focusing on striking with accuracy; varying power to determine distance; altering the batting stance to change the direction of the strike; using both the short and the long barrier; bowling underarm accurately to a range of styles and heights; throwing with confidence in response to the scoring runner; altering the batting technique and ball placements in relation to the space in the field; changing fielding positions based on the batter. We will be following the rules set by Rounders England, and understanding how scoring works in all instances.
Ultimate Frisbee
Under the expert guidance of a coach, we will learn to play Ultimate Frisbee and be carrying out all skills in competitive situations; catching at various heights; blocking an opponent’s ball; reacting to a stimulus; using person to person marking; intercepting a pass within a game, and using communication skills
Play leaders
We will work closely with Sports coaches from AMVC to learn the skills needed for hosting a KS1 Sports event.
Vocabulary: Rounders, overarm, underarm, throw, catch, field, Ultimate Frisbee, air bounce, fore hand, back hand, grip, boundary
Important dates for this term:
Bank Holiday: 06/05/24
P/C event 24/05/24 (9-10am)
Term ends: 24/05/24
Half term holiday 27/05/24 – 31/05/24