Whitefield Primary School - Year 5 Curriculum (Autumn 1)
Whitefield Primary School - Year 5 Curriculum (Autumn 1) Key Reading Texts : Fiction Street Child - Berlie Doherty Key reading texts: Poetry
Charles Causley/Michael Rosen
Literacy
Write a story set in the past (Victorian times)
Read write and order numbers to 1,000,000
Write a setting description (the workhouse) and a diary entry in the role of Jim
Read Roman numerals to 1000
Add, subtract, multiply and divide numbers with more than 4 digits, using formal written methods.
Science
Explain that unsupported objects fall towards the Earth because of gravity
Identify the effects of air resistance
Recognise that some mechanisms, including leavers, pulleys and gears, allow a smaller force to have a greater effect.
Maths
Write poetry based on Michael Rosen / Charles Causley
Important days to remember:
Can you feel the force?
PE: Games (with a sports coach)
Why did the Industrial revolution happen? What impact did it have on Liverpool?
Foundation subjects
Homework: to be given out on a Friday Library books: Return on a Thursday for renewal Thursday afternoon
Trips and visits
Locate countries of the British Empire
Norton Priory visit school
Look at Liverpool during the industrial revolution
Forces investigation at Everton Park
DT structures from a Victorian dolls hosue
PSHE Health and wellbeing - Mental health
Computing
Esafety, ecadet circle times
Programming - hour of code
How you can help your child at home?
Have a look at your child’s seesaw regularly and discuss what they have been learning at school
Practise times tables regularly
Read regularly with your child and discuss what they have read
Charles Causley/Michael Rosen
Literacy
Write a story set in the past (Victorian times)
Read write and order numbers to 1,000,000
Write a setting description (the workhouse) and a diary entry in the role of Jim
Read Roman numerals to 1000
Add, subtract, multiply and divide numbers with more than 4 digits, using formal written methods.
Science
Explain that unsupported objects fall towards the Earth because of gravity
Identify the effects of air resistance
Recognise that some mechanisms, including leavers, pulleys and gears, allow a smaller force to have a greater effect.
Maths
Write poetry based on Michael Rosen / Charles Causley
Important days to remember:
Can you feel the force?
PE: Games (with a sports coach)
Why did the Industrial revolution happen? What impact did it have on Liverpool?
Foundation subjects
Homework: to be given out on a Friday Library books: Return on a Thursday for renewal Thursday afternoon
Trips and visits
Locate countries of the British Empire
Norton Priory visit school
Look at Liverpool during the industrial revolution
Forces investigation at Everton Park
DT structures from a Victorian dolls hosue
PSHE Health and wellbeing - Mental health
Computing
Esafety, ecadet circle times
Programming - hour of code
How you can help your child at home?
Have a look at your child’s seesaw regularly and discuss what they have been learning at school
Practise times tables regularly
Read regularly with your child and discuss what they have read
