Staincliffe CE Junior School

Year 5

Teachers - Miss Parkes (5P), Mrs Patel (Mon & Tues) & Mrs Ravat (Wed - Fri) (5PR), Miss Hardy (5H) and Mrs Patel (5H - Friday)

HLTA - Mrs Shaffi

Teaching Assistants - Mrs Zaman and Mrs Sheikh

Below is the AUTUMN TERM overview - this covers everything that your child will be working on throughout the summer term in Year 5. 

For the full year overview of all subjects covered across this year group, please click on the Long Term Plan link below:

Year 5 Long Term Plan 2024 - 2025

PARENTS' OVERVIEW - AUTUMN TERM 2024/25 (downloadable doc)

 

AUTUMN TERM 2024

Maths

During Autumn term year 5 children will learn about:

• Place value
• Mental/written addition and subtraction
• Factors
• Multiplication and Division
• Angles
• 2D and 3D shape
• Length, perimeter and area
• Time
• Fractions and Decimals
• Dividing 4 digit numbers
• Tables and bar charts
• Decimals & Fractions

Year 5 follow a progressive approach to maths where children are provided with experience of mathematical concepts in blocks of one or two weeks. Children will revisit these concepts throughout the year to ensure they have mastered the knowledge and understanding taught.  We encourage the children to be independent learners in maths and utilise their Maths Toolkit to support their learning when required.

Literacy

In Literacy over the Autumn Term, Year 5 will be looking at a variety of fiction and non-fiction texts. We will begin by focusing on our non-fiction writing, the focus being explanation texts - informing readers how an ‘Ironing Machine’ works.

Later, our focus will move to fiction - ‘The Highwayman’, a narrative poem. Children will have the opportunity to take part in an immersive experience getting to know a ‘real’ Highwayman. A historical fiction text will also be studied – ‘Street Child’ by Berlie Doherty where children will write in role as a Victorian child. Children will also have the opportunity to write a non-chronological report about a sand lizard that they have created themselves. Finally, children will write and perform their own Haiku’s to finish a very busy term. We look forward to their performances!

PE Physical Education

5P literacy set will be developing their cognitive and creative skills as part of their PE curriculum. They will learn to develop methods to outwit opponents, recognise and suggest patterns of play to increase their chances of success and learn how to develop their own work as well as helping others with theirs. They will do this through various small team games involving throwing and catching balls where they will work collaboratively by catching, dodging and throwing to earn points in the games. As well as this, children will be taking part in various level challenges to help improve their ball skills and co-ordination.

Later on, children will be taught creative ways to use their bodies by taking part in small team games which are not based on their feet for movement. They will develop their co-ordination and tactics and have to think creatively and skilfully to move and pass balls around to score points. The challenges this term are seated ones which strengthen core muscles and improve balance.

5PR and 5H literacy sets will attend swimming every Tuesday morning at Batley Sports and Tennis Centre where specialist swimming teachers will teach the children to swim.

Science

Year 5 will begin Autumn term learning ‘Properties of Materials’ takes children through six lessons where they learn how to: compare and group together everyday materials on the basis of their properties, including their hardness, solubility, transparency, conductivity (electrical and thermal) and response to magnets; know that some materials will dissolve in liquid to form a solution, use knowledge of solids, liquids and gases to decide how mixtures might be separated, including through filtering, sieving and evaporating; and finally, they learn how to give reasons based on evidence from comparative and fair tests, for the particular uses of everyday materials, including metals, wood and plastic.  

Our second unit will be ‘Living things and their habitats. This unit builds on work from previous years and deepens the children’s understanding of life cycles, reproduction and animal characteristics. New concepts are introduced such as metamorphosis to help the children understand how life cycles are constantly progressing, whilst pre-existing concepts are continually referenced and built upon to aid recall and scaffold learning. A blend of science and creativity will capture the children’s imagination, where they will have the opportunity to dissect an egg and pretend to be David Attenborough as they research their favourite creature.

Music

In Music we will be looking at ‘Classroom Jazz 1’ where the children will be considering Jazz improvisation and Swing. The children will listen to four different pieces of music- Desafinado by Stan Getz (swing),  Cotton Tail by Ben Webster, 5 Note Swing by Ian Gray and Perdido by Woody Herman. Children will practice various musical skills starting with listening and appraising to music, moving on to playing an instrument then finishing with performing and sharing with others. We can’t wait to hear what the children create!

MFL Modern Foreign Languages  (French)

Our Year 5 Autumn unit is called ‘Meet my French Family’.

It introduces family and relations vocabulary, the possessive adjective ‘my’, and how to express likes and dislikes. Children will be describing members of a family, their looks, their ages, their birthdays and their likes and dislikes.

They will write French sentences based on this. We can’t wait to hear all about their family members in French!

Computing

Our first topic will be coding. Children will use PurpleMash 2Code to learn how to create their own computer programmes. They will explore how to add commands such as timers and variables to their code.

Online safety- this is taught throughout the year and is frequently revisited.  Children will learn how to protect their privacy online and the importance of being careful with what they share. They will also learn about assessing the reliability of the websites that they visit.

Spreadsheets- children will learn what spreadsheets are. They will create different formulas to perform different mathematical calculations.

PSHE Personal Social Health Economic Education

Our first topic will be ‘Being Me in My World’. We will look at comparing our lives with others in another country and explain why we have rules, rights and responsibilities to try and make the school and wider community a safe place. We will also think about how the actions of one person can affect others and look at and give some examples of this.

Our second topic will be ‘Celebrating differences-including anti-bullying’. We will look at the differences between direct and indirect types of bullying and think about strategies of how to help ourselves (either directly or indirectly in bullying). We will also think about why racism and other forms of discrimination are unkind and be able to share our opinions.

RE Religious Education

Throughout the Autumn term children will be exploring the question: How do Sikhs symbolize their commitment?

It develops knowledge and understanding of Sikhism, including worship practices. It invites pupils to reflect on how Sikhs symbolise their faith through actions and rituals. The content of the unit supports pupils to understand and evaluate values and how they inform the religious practice, commitment and service of Sikhs. In so doing, the unit also enables pupils to reflect on the significance of these concepts in their own lives

Art and Design

Our Autumn unit focuses on architecture. The unit guides children through observational drawing, printmaking and building design. It encourages children to explore architectural elements, analyse Hundertwasser’s work and create meaningful monuments, enhancing their understanding of composition, design, and art appreciation.

DT Design Technology

Year 5 children will enjoy a textile topic in DT where they will design and make a stuffed toy for a younger child. They will plan their design idea, make decisions on materials and learn how to sew using a blanket stitch and finally evaluate their idea and product against their own design criteria.

History

During Autumn term, children will investigate the big question: What did the Greeks ever do for us?

Children will investigate the city-states of Athens and Sparta to identify the similarities and differences between them, learning about democracy whilst assessing the legacy of the Ancient Greeks.

Geography

Children will begin Year 5 with the big question: Would you like to live in the desert?

Children will have the opportunity to explore hot desert biomes and learn about the physical features of a desert and how humans interact with this environment.

Spelling

We follow a spelling programme provided by Spelling Shed. Children can then use the website to practise their weekly spellings choosing the level of support they need. Children will be given a weekly spelling test to consolidate their spellings.

The children can then use the website to practice their weekly spellings choosing the level of support they need. Each child in Year 5 has a copy of the spelling lists in their school book bag. They will be given a weekly spelling test to consolidate their spellings.

Homework

Every week, Year 5 children will be given homework on Friday (due in the following Wednesday):

• be given a maths activity, either linked to their learning that week or revisiting a previously taught skill
• be expected to read their reading book and get their reading record signed x3 weekly
• play on TTRockstars and Spelling Shed
• learn their weekly spellings (each week has a different list focus that the children have been practising in school that week)

Each half term, Year 5 children will:

• be set their black book homework tasks. They need to choose AT LEAST 3 activities to complete which will be shared with with their class and teacher. It could include art work, writing, computer presentations, 3D models, posters etc. 

Autumn 1:

You have been studying the Greeks in History this half term. Choose at least 3 activities from the list below to complete over the half term (due in on Monday 4^th November)

You are going to share all your homework with your class mates and teacher. It could include art work, writing, computer presentations, 3D models, posters etc. You will have to explain to the class what you have done.