Upper Key Stage 2
Frenchwood Community Primary School- Parent Overview | |||
This is what your child will be learning this half term | |||
Cycle A | Y5/6 | Autumn 1 | |
English Y6 | This term we will be reading and exploring the magical novel, The Nowhere Emporium by Ross Mackenzie. This novel centres on the character of Daniel who is launched into an adventure which travels in time and space. We will write a narrative piece in the style of Ross Mackenzie as well as a magazine article comprising a hybrid of text types linked to our novel as a theme. | ||
English Y5 | We will be reading and enjoying the novel, The Lion, the witch and the wardrobe. We will also watch excerpts of the film to help visualise parts of the story. In guided reading, we will explore a variety of texts and develop our retrieval and inference skills. We will write a narrative piece based on our novel as well as a non-chronological report on a mythical creature of our own. | ||
Maths Y6 | Number, place value and decimals Number operations for - Addition and subtraction Multiplication and Division | ||
Maths Y5 | Place value Addition and subtraction Statistics Geometry (angles/measures) | ||
Science | Animals including humans Your child will Identify and name the main parts of the human circulatory system and describe the functions of the heart, blood vessels and blood. Children will carry out a range of pulse rate investigations involving fair tests, pattern seeking and observations over time. | ||
PE | Indoor - Dance Outdoor – Netball. Invasion games. Passing and shooting | ||
History Geography | Being an Archaeologist. Pupils will learn all about an important archaeological site. They will explore the artefacts discovered and what they tell us about how an archaeologist works, how we learn about past times from the remains we find and how we can build a picture of other civilizations. Reading – The Buried Crown Enrichment – History visitor | ||
Computing | Online safety ‘Online protection Unit’ they will learn how applications can access personal information and how to alter settings. They will then move onto programming a micro:bit – where they will make connections with previous programming interfaces they have used. | ||
Art or DT | Mechanical systems option 2: Making a pop-up book Creating a four-page pop-up storybook design incorporating a range of mechanisms and decorative features, including: structures, levers, sliders, layers and spacers. | ||
PSHE | Safe net workshops delivered by external agency | ||
Music | Charanga – Livin’ on a Prayer The material presents an integrated approach to music where games, the dimensions of music (pulse, rhythm, pitch etc), singing and playing instruments are all linked. As well as learning to sing, play, improvise and compose with this song, children will listen and appraise other classic rock songs. | ||
RE | Christianity This term we will be looking at Christian rites of passage and the differences between the different denominations. | ||
MFL | Spanish In this unit, pupils will learn the names of ten fruits and be introduced to simple opinions such as ‘I like’ and ‘I do not like’. By the end of the unit pupils will have the knowledge and skills to be able to say which fruits they like and do not like in Spanish. | ||