Whitefield Primary School - Year 5 Curriculum (Autumn 2)

Whitefield Primary School - Year 5 Curriculum (Autumn 2) Key Reading Texts : Fiction The secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett

Literacy 

Write an alternative chapter

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Compare and order fractions

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Write a setting description of the secret garden and character descriptions of Mary and Dickon

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Recognise and convert between mixed numbers and improper fractions

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Write a report on Victorian schools

Key Reading Texts : Non Fiction Information texts related to the Victorians

Science 

Explore filtering, sieving and evaporation

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Understand that dissolving can be a reversible change

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Learn that some changes result in the formation of new materials

Could you be the next crime scene investigator?

History: Identify cause and consequence of the Industrial

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Art: study William Morris

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PSHE: Health and wellbeing - Drugs and alcohol

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Convert between fractions, decimals and percentages

Important days to remember:

PE: Gymnastics (with a sports coach) Homework: to be given out on a Friday

What was it like to be a child in the Victorian times?

Library books: Return on a Thursday for renewal Thursday afternoon

Trips and visits

How you can help your child at home?

Foundation Subjects 

Maths

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Trip to Croxteth hall to celebrate a Victorian Christmas

Computing 

Esafety week, discuss cyber bullying

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Multimedia - Christmas around the world

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Have a look at your child’s seesaw regularly and discuss what they have been learning at school

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Practise times tables regularly

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Read regularly with your child and discuss what they have read