English

Our stimulus for writing in Autumn 2 will be 'The Red Eye’- a tale full of action. To support our understanding, we will be reading ‘The Jamie Drake Equation’ by Christopher Edge. We will join Jamie as he sets out to save his astronaut father's mission on the International Space Station. Learning to edit and handwriting will play a crucial role in this too.

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 advance action. Learning to edit and attention to neat, cursive handwriting will play a crucial role in this too.

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

Guided Reading - Reading for Inference

We will use a variety of texts - both fiction and non-fiction - 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. In order to support your child with both their grammar and reading at home, please use the following links: 

Maths

This term, we will continue our Maths journey with multiplication and division, and fractions. We will also further our Maths fluency by working closely on our Addition and Subtraction, and Multiplication and Division skills. Times tables will remain a key focus throughout Year 5. 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, fraction, numerator, denominator.

Science: Space

Our learning in Autumn 2 focuses on Space. We will learn about the Solar System and ideas about it over time, about the planets and their motion through space, about night and day, and about the Moon.

Vocabulary: solar system, planets, spherical, stars, sun, orbit, surface, appearance, model, gravity, gravitational pull, orbit, heliocentric, geocentric, axis, rotation, North Pole, South Pole, satellite.

Religion and Worldviews: Why doesn’t Christianity always look the same?

In our learning this term, we focus on the Big Question: Why doesn’t Christianity always look the same? 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. Thinking first as geographers and historians, we will explore the spread of Christian beliefs worldwide. Through looking at artwork, history, case studies and first-hand accounts, we will investigate why Christian worship looks different across the world when key beliefs are the same.

Vocabulary: religion, worldview, Christianity, Messiah, belief, believer, Roman Catholicism, impact, personal influences, cultural influences, congregate, congregation

Computing: Search engines

In Autumn 2, we will be applying programming skills to create sounds and melodies leading to a battle of the bands performance. We will continue our Online Safety during our class assembly time. We will consider online protection, online communication, online reputation, online bullying, and online health.

Vocabulary: Scratch, tinker, predict, programming, music, typing, spacing, performance, coding, tutorials, error, commands, instructions, debugging, loop, mind map, pitch, rhythm, tempo, timbre, soundtrack, repetition

             RSE and PSHE: Health and Well-being

Vocabulary:

Design and Technology: Electrical systems- Wobblebots

Our DT learning this term is Building on existing knowledge of circuits by introducing motors and exploring how they create movement in products.

Vocabulary: design, input, motion, mechanism, criteria, research, reinforce, model

PE – Dance & Health and Fitness

Health and Fitness

We will be learning the importance of warming up and cooling down and how it prepares the body for exercise. We will talk about why being healthy is important and consequences of not being so.

Vocabulary: health, fitness, energy, agility, stamina, mental, physical, squat, controlled, disco, dance, grapevine, step, move, together, beat

Dance – Disco:

We will learn a sequence of disco dance steps as part of a routine we will perform in groups. We will use these steps to choreograph a longer routine for a solo, duet or group. We will work on our musicality in time to disco music beat.

Vocabulary: health, fitness, energy, agility, stamina, mental, physical, squat, controlled, disco, dance, grapevine, step, move, together, beat

Geography – What is life like in the Alps?

This half term we will be investigating tourism in mountain environments by learning about the climate and features of the Alps, with a focus on Innsbruck and look at the impact of tourism on these areas.

Vocabulary: atlas, climate, climate change, data, enquiry, fold mountain, glacier, hemisphere, human feature, method, mountain climate, OS map, population, recreational land use, risk

Key dates:

02/11/26 – Autumn term 2 begins

02/11/26 – Parent Consultation Evening 1

04/11/26 – Parent Consultation Evening 2

05/11/26 – Bonfire lunch

13/11/26 – Children in Need

10/12/26 – Christmas jumper day

16/12/26 – Christmas Lunch

17/12/26 – Christmas disco

18/12/26 – final day before Christmas

Important dates for early 2027:

04/01/27 – Staff training day: school closed

05/01/27 – Spring term begins

12/02/27 – Spring term 1 ends for half term