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Year 5/6 PE this term will be delivered PE specialist, Mr Wynne

For indoor PE, sessions will cover gymnastics skills and techniques, with indoor athletics in the second half term. For outdoor PE, the children will be consolidating and improving their throwing, catching, hitting and kicking skills through a variety of manipulative skill games.

This term, Year 5 children will have the opportunity to go swimming at Christleton High School swimming baths.

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For the first half term, the children will be learning about 'Parinirvana', where Buddhists share the story of Buddha's death and also reflect on their own lives. Within this term, the children will also continue to develop their knowledge on Humanism.

During the second half term, the children will focus on the Islamic festival of 'Lailat al Miraj' - the story of Muhammad's Night Journey.

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Year 6:

Measurements - length, mass, volume and time

Percentages - finding the percentage of a number and quantity, finding quantity after a percentage change, and using percentages to compare.

Ratio - comparing quantities, finding quantities, ratios with measurements, finding ratios.

Algebra - describing patterns, writing and evaluating algebraic expressions, writing and using formulae, solving equations.

Area and Perimeter - finding the perimeter and area of rectangles, finding the base and height of triangles, finding the area of triangles, finding the area of parallelograms.

Geometry - investigating and finding angles in triangles, quadrilaterals and polygons, finding angles in a circle, drawing nets of 3D shapes.

Position and Movement - show negative numbers, draw polygons on a coordinate grid, describe translation, reflections and movements, use algebra to describe position and movement.

Word problems related to the above

Year 5:

Statistics (Graphs) - read tables and line graphs.

Fractions - writing improper fractions and mixed numbers, finding equivalent fractions, comparing and ordering a range of fractions, adding and subtracting multiples, multiplying fractions.

Decimals - reading, writing and comparing decimals, writing fraction and decimal equivalents, adding and subtracting decimals, rounding decimals.

Percentages - writing percentages, finding and writing equivalent fractions, decimals and percentages, comparing proportions using percentages.

Geometry - measuring angles, investigating angles on a line/point angles, drawing angles, using angles as a descriptor for common shapes, investigating angles inside regular polygons.

Word problems related to the above

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We realise that children need to feel happy and confident in school to be successful.  Using Coram Life Education, we will be equipping them to make safe and informed decisions and helping them to develop a happy and healthy lifestyle.

This term we will focus on 'Keeping Myself Safe' and 'Rights and Responsibilities'.

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Reading:
In Y5/6, the expectation is that the children read every day for at least twenty minutes.  This should be recorded in their Reading Records as home reading and should, ideally, be initialled by an adult.  Reading Records will be checked once a week by the class teacher.

Spelling:
The children will have weekly spellings which will be given to them on Mondays and tested on Fridays.  Children will be given a paper copy to take home and spellings will also be added to Doodle on a weekly basis.

Times Tables:
The National Curriculum expectation is that children should be able to recall and use multiplication and division facts for multiplication tables up to 12 x 12 by the end of Year 4.  If your child does not, yet, have rapid recall of all these facts, times tables practice should be done at least five times per week.

Doodle:
Children should be accessing the four areas of learning at least five times per week.  This will ensure that they consolidate the basic skills and stay in the green zones.  Look out for any assignments being set as these will be linked to current learning in school.

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In computing, the children will be learning about how to use 'spreadsheets' effectively using Purple Mash. Within this term, the children will also be introduced to blogging 'blogging' and gain an understanding of the basic principles of creating and maintaining a blog in a controlled and safe environment.

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We will be having lots of fun singing and playing musical instruments using the units 'A New Year Carol' and 'You've Got A Friend' on Charanga Music.

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The History National Curriculum requires that the children articulate and present a clear, chronological world history narrative within and across historical periods studied. In Geography, children will be learning about 'Rainforest' and 'Polar Regions', which will cover longitude, latitude, climate zones and biomes.

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Our books for this term are:

Island: A Story of the Galapagos by Jason Chin
Jemmy Button by Jennifer Uman & Valerio Vidali
The Explorer by Katherine Rundell

We will continue to focus on the non-negotiables in writing alongside developing writing skills in line with National Curriculum expectations.

Every time the Y6 children write they should remember:

accurate punctuation (capital letters, full stops, question marks, exclamation marks, commas in lists and after fronted adverbials, punctuation for parenthesis and accurate speech punctuation)

legible, fluent and joined handwriting, even at speed, ensuring that capital letters and lower case letters are of a consistent size

accurate spelling of the Y3/4 statutory words and spelling patterns

accurate spelling of some of the Y5/6 statutory words and spelling patterns

Every time the Y5 children write they should remember:

accurate punctuation (capital letters, full stops, question marks, exclamation marks, commas in lists and after fronted adverbials)

legible, fluent and joined handwriting, ensuring that capital letters and lower case letters are of a consistent size

accurate spelling of the Y3/4 statutory words and spelling patterns

beginning to have accurate spelling of some of the Y5/6 statutory words and spelling patterns

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Our Art lessons the piece of 'Rainforest Art' in the style of Henri Rousseau which could be displayed at Chester Zoo. The children will use a range of drawing techniques to work from a variety of sources including observation, photographs and digital image.

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This term's science topic is:

Evolution and Inheritance.

Through this topic, the children will be taught to use a range of practical scientific methods, processes and skills - these, alongside knowledge quizzes, will form the basis for assessment in science.

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In French, the children will be learning about 'Pets' and will be combining all of their learnt skills to be able to have a conversation with their peers to express what animals they do and don't have. Children will also learn about 'Habitats'.