Upper Key Stage 2
Frenchwood Community Primary School | |||
This is what your child will be learning this half term | |||
Cycle A | Y5/6 | Spring 1 | |
English | Y5. Science Fiction. Your child will read a variety of science fiction texts, they will create their own science fiction stories using their imagination and applying taught grammar skills. Information booklets. The non-fiction topic this half term will be Victorian Preston, linking to our history topic, sharing what we have researched and found out. Y6. Older Literature. This half term, your child will focus on Macbeth, written by William Shakespeare. They will investigate his writing style and language and use this to create their own stories int eh same style. Poetry. Your child will learn to recite a variety of poems, linked to a topic, focusing on texts such as ‘The Witches’ by Roald Dahl and ‘Double, Double, Toil and Trouble’ by William Shakespeare. This will inform their writing, and they will create their own poem based on these structures. | ||
Maths | Y5. Time. Place Value and negative numbers. Addition and subtraction. Multiplication Measures (length, mass and capacity). Geometry Y6. Place value, negative numbers and number sequences. Coordinates and geometry. Calculations. Fractions | ||
Science | Electricity. Your child will associate the brightness of a lamp with the number and voltage of cells used in the circuits. Children will compare the use of different components in different circuits. Children will design and make circuits to solve problems. Children will carry out fair tests, exploring changes in circuits. | ||
PE | Indoor - Swimming – Phase 3 Outdoor – Striking and Fielding - Cricket | ||
History
| Life in Victorian Preston. Children will learn all about Preston’s rich Victorian past, its buildings, notable people and industrial development. We will examine how the rich, the middle class and the poor lived their lives. A visit to Winckley Square will bring the past to life with all the surrounding buildings and the stories they tell. Reading – Street Child. Enrichment – A visit to Winckley Square | ||
Art /DT | Textiles – Waistcoats. Children will learn about waistcoats and how they are made. They will select materials and use a template to cut and prepare ready for sewing. They will use a simple running stitch to make their own waistcoats. Children will wear their waistcoats during a Victorians day. | ||
PSHE | Dreams and Goals: • Know that they will need money to help them to achieve some of their dreams • Know about a range of jobs that are carried out by people I know • Know that different jobs pay more money than others • Know what jobs they might like to do when they are older • Know that young people from different cultures may have different dreams and goals • Know ways that they can support young people in their own culture and abroad | ||
Music | Charanga - Make You Feel My Love by Bob Dylan – a Pop Ballad sung by Adele. We will also be learning and performing a song about life in a Victorian matchstick factory – Bryant and May. Mr. McLoughlin has written a song about the effects of “Fozzy Jaw” which workers suffered from. We will perform it in a KS2 assembly and post the recording on class dojo. | ||
RE | Islam – We will be learning all about Hajj (a pilgrimage to Mecca). | ||
MFL | Presenting - Pupils will focus on asking questions and providing accurate replies. They will demonstrate a growing understanding of grammar to manipulate language and start to create sentences of their own using a range of personal details including name, age, where they live and nationality. | ||
Computing | Children will continue their work on the Mars Rover and investigate how they work. They will be creating a pixel picture and understanding that a pixel is the smallest element of a digital image. They will link this to prior knowledge and know that this is transferred by binary code. They will combine these skills in 3D design tools. | ||