Upper Key Stage 2
Frenchwood Community Primary School – Parent Overview | |||
This is what your child will be learning this half term | |||
Cycle B | Y5/6. | Summer 2 | |
English | In Year 6, children will be reading and exploring the famous Lancastrian poem, The Lion and Albert performed by Stanley Holloway. This is an extended unit across both summer terms. Children will respond the poem in a variety of ways including writing letters of complaint and response. In Year 5, children will be reading and enjoying a selection of Greek Myths. They will practise using simile sentence starters in their writing before planning and sharing their own mythological stories. | ||
Maths | Year 5 NFER. Division. Fractions. Percentages. Statistics. Measurement Year 6 Addition and subtraction. Multiplication. Division. Applied Maths | ||
Science | Animals (including humans) Children will learn to understand and describe the process of change from childhood to adulthood. This will focus particularly on mammals, including gestation periods. Part of this unit of work will be taught through the half-term's PSHE topic due to its potentially sensitive nature. | ||
PE | Indoor - Dance – The Haka- This term, the children will work in small groups and start to develop a 20 second small group section using chance choreography.
Outdoor - Invasion Games – Netball- This term, the children will apply simple attacking and defending tactics when playing a netball-type game. | ||
Geography | Can I carry out an independent fieldwork enquiry? Children will carry out an enquiry question, create data collection methods and map a route. They will then collect, analyse and present data. They will continue with their learning from last term about plastic pollution in our oceans and look at the recycling opportunities we have in and around school. | ||
Art | Craft and Design: Photo Opportunity Exploring photography as a medium for expressing ideas, pupils investigate scale and composition, colour and techniques for adapting finished images. They use digital media to design and create photographic imagery for a specific design brief. | ||
PSHE | Jigsaw – Changing Me Children revisit self-esteem and self/body-image. They learn that we all have perceptions about ourselves and others, and these may be right or wrong. They also reflect on how social media and the media can promote unhelpful comparison and how to manage this. Puberty is revisited with further detail explaining bodily changes in males and females. | ||
Computing | Online safety – How to navigate the internet in an informed, safe and respectful way. Children in this unit will learn about the positive and negative impacts of sharing online, they will learn strategies to create a positive online reputation and, if needed, how to capture evidence of online bullying to seek help, whilst ensuring they have secure passwords and updated software, which prevents corruption and hacking. | ||
Music | Charanga – Reflect, rewind and replay This Unit of Work consolidates the learning that has occurred during the year. All the learning is focused around revisiting songs and musical activities, a context for the History of Music and the beginnings of the Language of Music. Year 6 children will also be preparing music for their Leavers’ assembly | ||
RE | Judaism This term we will focus on the role of the Jewish holy book: the Torah. | ||
MFL | This term in Spanish, the children will be learning about school. They will be learning to: Repeat and recognise the vocabulary for school subjects. Say what subjects they like and dislike at school. Say why they like/ dislike certain school subjects. Tell the time (on the hour) in Spanish. Say what time they study certain subjects at school. | ||