English

Our stimulus for writing in Autumn 1 will be 'The Canal’- a warning tale full of action. To support our understanding, we will be reading ‘Kensuke’s Kingdom’, the Children’s Book Award-winning novel by Michael Morpurgo. Set on a desert-island, it is an adventure about friendship, trust and humanity.

Our Grammar focus for the term will be to develop our understanding and range of narrative tenses, as well as increasing our range of vocabulary to describe character. We will also focus on writing dialogue. Learning to edit and attention to neat, cursive handwriting will play a crucial role in this too.

Vocabulary: narrative, character, setting, atmosphere, action, dialogue, word class, noun phrase, noun, adjective, verb, modal verb, adverb, adverbial, preposition, conjunction, co-ordinating clause, co-ordinating conjunction, subordinate clause, subordinating conjunction, causal conjunction, inverted commas

Guided Reading - Reading for Inference

We will use a variety of texts - both fiction and non-fiction - about 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 use text annotation as a method of exploring a text, and will build on our retrieval and inference reading skills. 

Maths

This term, we will start our Maths journey with Place Value. We will also further our Maths fluency by working closely on our Addition and Subtraction, and Multiplication and Division skills. Times tables and generating new facts from those known will be a focus within our morning task time. 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: number, place value, addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, digit, numeral, column

Science

Our Science learning in Autumn 1 will focus on the forces of gravity, friction, air resistance, and water resistance. We will plan, investigate and evaluate experiments on these forces. We will also use learn about using smaller forces for greater effects.

Vocabulary: force, contact force, friction, motion, air resistance, drag, parachute, streamline, independent variable, dependent variable, controlled variable, repeatability, precision, surface area, anomalous result, gravity, weight, contact force, non-contact force, lever, gear, pulley, machine

History

The children will learn where the Anglo-Saxons originated from and when they lived in Britain. They will also learn why they chose to make Britain their home. They will learn about artefacts that show us more about Anglo-Saxon life, including the Sutton Hoo burial site. We will complete local history research about Hereward the Wake.

Vocabulary: Picts, Scots, pillaged, Saxons,  Jutes, Angles, North Sea, pleas, Anglo-Saxons, battle-axe, Frankish, axe head, Britons, legends, overcome, migrating, migrate, high-status, glassware, compensation, status, overlord, Canterbury, monasteries, monks, scholarship, self-taught, earthen mounds, rivet, meandering, silverware, helmet, decomposed

Religion and Worldviews

In our Religion and Worldviews learning this term, we focus on the Big Question: Why do people have to stand up for what they believe in? Looking at belief from both religious and non-religious viewpoints, we will learn how people in our communities, countries and the world at large have different beliefs. We will learn what freedom looks like.  We will also discover how beliefs have been challenged in the past. We will discuss how we can stand up for our beliefs, and how light can be used to represent this stance.

Vocabulary: religion, worldview, agnostic, atheist, theist, denomination, oppression, persecution, discrimination, religious freedom, divine authority, emperor, guru, martyr, ordained, religious stereotype

PE

Hockey- We will be learning the key skills and tactics required within field hockey. We will play competitive matches with plastics sticks, in addition to practicing using wooden sticks in non-competitive situations.

 

Vocabulary: tactics, attacker, defender, dribble, goalkeeper, flick, push

 

Netball- We will be learning the key skills and tactics required within netball. Some children will be picked to represent Norwood in the KS2 Netball tournament.

 

Vocabulary: attacker, defender, footwork, contact, obstruction

RSE and PSHE- MyHappyMind

Meet your brain. This module is focused on giving children a foundational knowledge of the brain and teaching them how they can look after their minds to be at their very best.

Vocabulary: Brain, Cells, Hippocampus, Amygdala, Prefrontal Cortex, Mind, Focus, Neuroplasticity, Neuron, Neural Pathway, Happy Breathing, ‘Fight, Flight, Freeze’, Oxygen, Real Danger, Perceived Danger, Trigger, Cortisol

Art and Design

Structure: Interactive Installation We will be exploring how artists use space, scale and materials to create installation art that conveys ideas, transforms spaces and shapes the viewer’s experience.

Vocabulary: scale, architecture, space, model, transformation, shape  

Music

In Music, our focus is on Music in Nature. We will be drawing inspiration from the power of nature, composing short melodies to reflect different moods of the sky. We will experiment with pitch, dynamics and harmony, using simple chords to add depth and atmosphere to performances.

Vocabulary: nature, melodies, pitch, dynamics, harmony, chords