Sunflower Class
Welcome to Year 5 and 6
Teacher: Mr Rowlands
Teaching Assistant: Miss Allcock
PE is on a Friday so please ensure children have a full PE kit on these days.
Class Timetable
Homework
Reading books should be in every day so that records can be checked, updated and books changed whenever needed.
Homework is sent out each Friday and is expected back in and completed the following Wednesday. In addition to this children have access to TTRS to improve their times table knowledge and recall speed.
English
This half term we are reading When the sky falls by Phil Earle. This is a book that deals with themes such as loss, grief, friendship, trust and the impact of war through the lens of World War Two London.
Writing Opportunities:
- Letter
- Journal Entry
Maths
The children will be working on Multiplication, Division, Fractions and Decimals while also continuing to work on arithmetic skills and test technique ready for the summer.
It is crucial that children still continue to learn their times tables to improve recall speed and accuracy.
Geography learning challenges:
Settlement, land use and economic relationships
- What are settlements and where do we find them?
- Do settlements have a pattern?
- Do people, their movements and economic activity have a pattern?
Science learning challenges:
Forders:
- When is friction helpful and when is it not?
- What is the effect of air resistance?
- What is the effect of water resistance?
- Who was Galileo Galilei?
- How do levers help us ?
- How do pulleys and gears help us?
RE learning challenges:
Creation and Science: Conflicting or complementary?
- What can we find out about the creation story from Genesis 1?
- What might Christians see as important from Genesis 1?
- What relationships do scientists have with religious worldviews?
- How and why do some Christians see both science and religion as important?
- What are some different Christians views about the relationship between science and religion?
- Creation and Science: Conflicting or complementary?
Music:
This half term we are studying musical theatre looking at:
- the history of musical theatre
- the differences between character and action songs
- creating, rehearsing and performing our own musical theatre songs
PSHCE:
We are now using My Happy Mind as our main PSHCE offering. Currently, we are working through a unit called ‘Meet your Brain’ where we are learning about how our brains’ chemistry works.
We will then move on to our ‘Celebrate’ unit aimed at boosting self-esteem.
Computing:
In computing this half term we are continuing with our work on coding, learning how to programme simple games, real life simulations, use friction and function blocks, strings and concatenation.
Spanish:
In Spanish we are looking at the language surrounding ‘My World’, starting with family members and friends before looking at animals and farms and exploring language that the children could need when talking about their own life.
Curriculum plan
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