Geraldton (Year 5)

Miss Miles

Class Teacher

Mrs Jones

Teaching Partner

Term 5

 

Early Morning Work

For the first half-an-hour of the day, Year Five focus on developing key skills in English and Maths. The children work through a daily maths task to improve their mental agility in various different mathematical skills. They will also have a handwriting task, which usually has a spelling, grammar or punctuation focus. This is also a when children are heard read individually. Every child will be heard once every other week. On Friday mornings, Geraldton Class will be tested on their weekly spellings.

 

English

English is taught daily from Monday to Thursday and develops reading, writing and speaking and listening skills. English units are usually taught over a two-week period. During Term Five, Geraldton Class will be looking at the following units in order to develop their writing skills:

  • Narrative –  Arctic Star (Two-week unit)
  • Diary Entries – The diary of Anne Frank (Two-week unit)
 

 

Maths

Maths is taught daily. Maths units vary in length and are split into weekly blocks. The children build on their previous knowledge to extend their understanding of different aspects of mathematics. With the challenges which are always on offer to them, they also have the opportunity to apply their knowledge when solving mathematical problems and puzzles. Geraldton class will cover the following units in Term 5:

  • Area and Perimeter (1-week unit)
  • Statistics (1-week unit) 
  • Shape (2-week unit)
  • Reflection, Translation and position (2-week unit)
 
 

 

PE

This term Geraldton Class will have tennis every Tuesday afternoon and yoga every Friday morning. During our tennis unit, they will have to think about how they use skills, strategies and tactics to outwit the opposition. They will be given opportunities to work co-operatively with others as well as independently. In addition, they will develop their tactical awareness, learning how to outwit an opponent. On a Friday morning, the children will learn poses that challenge their balance, flexibility and strength. They will learn how to use their breath to hold poses, move within poses and transition from pose to pose. Furthermore, they will explore how to link poses to create a flow and develop leadership skills to create, refine and lead their own sequence.

 

Computing

During Term 5, Geraldton Class will explore programming and in this unit we will be explaining how algorithms work, using logical reasoning to detect errors, using ‘if/else’ blocks in Micro:bit, using x and y coordinates to control position and movement in Scratch and accurately predicting what will happen when writing their very own code.

 

PSHE

PSHE is always taught each term and is often based on discussion tasks. Where possible, we try to link PSHE with Philosophy and encourage the children to explain their understanding in detail and answer challenging questions which don’t always have a right answer. In Terms 5 and 6, we will be exploring the themes of ‘Be Yourself’, ‘Aiming High’ and ‘It’s my Body’.

 

Music

During Term 5, Geraldton Class will have music enrichment with Mrs Kjaer. In their music enrichment, they will be composing their own music, using a variety of different instruments and listening to range of composers to gain inspiration for their own tunes.

 

DT

Geraldton Class will be focusing on cams and gears during Term 5 which links back to our forces topic covered in science. They will be exploring the different movements we can get from different shaped cams and evaluating the effectiveness of different cam toys before making their very own. This will enable them to develop different woodwork and measuring skills whilst also allowing them work collaboratively and problem solve as a group.

 

 

RE

RE is taught on a weekly basis and this term we will be looking at Sikhism. We will be focusing on the key question of: ‘are Sikh stories still relevant today?’ This question will enable us to build on what the children have already learnt and relate the moral messages of Sikhism to their own lives. In these sessions, we will be looking at a variety of Sikh stories which the children will be able to act out, draw and interpret as a group.

 

History and Geography

During Terms 5 and 6, the children will be using World War Two and its impact on Europe in order to inspire their history and geography topics. During Term 5, they will be exploring WW2 through a historical lens and focusing on the impact on the government had during WW2, propaganda and the views of the people. They will also be interpreting primary sources of evidence and delving into bias and the reliability of different sources of evidence while also thinking about gender and the roles of men and women and how these changed during wartime.

 

Science

Science is taught once a week, through both practical and theoretical activities. The children will develop their skills as a scientist through investigations, developing their predicting and concluding skills and gaining an understanding of controlling variables. The children are taught, and should then apply, key scientific vocabulary in relation to the current science topic. The science topic for the following term is related to space and they will be learning the following in this term:

  •          To describe the movement of the Earth and other planets relative to the sun
  •          To describe the movement of the moon relative to the Earth
  •          To explain and demonstrate how night and day are created
  •          To understand that the Sun, Earth and Moon are approximately spherical and how we know