Upper Key Stage 2

Community Primary School – Parent Overview

This is what your child will learning this half term

Cycle B

Y5/6

Spring 2

English

Y6 Children will be reading and exploring the contemporary narrative, Wonder by RJ Palacio. Children will further develop their writing skills by blending action, dialogue and description as well as using informal styles of speech. In poetry, children will read and respond to a selection of contemporary songs and lyrics by artists including Sugababes and Christina Aguilera.

Y5 Children will read the novel, The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick. They will practise blending action and description when creating their own narratives based on an invention. In non-fiction, children will read and explore a range of magazines before planning and writing their own magazine text types.

Maths

Year 5 Fractions.2D and 3D shape. Measurement (volume)

Statistics. Problem Solving including Bar Modelling

Year 6 Ratio and Proportion. Statistics. Geometry

Measurement. Algebra

Science

Earth and space

Children will describe the movement of the Earth and other planets relative to the sun. Children will describe the sun, Earth and moon as spherical bodies. Children will further their understanding by using secondary sources to create models and research time zones. Children will make first hand observations of shadows over time.

PE

Indoor  - Dance – British Values

Outdoor - Invasion Games – Rugby 1

History

The Partition of Indian

Children will use written eye witness accounts to build a picture of life in India in the early 20^th Century. Children will learn about the reasons for and the events that led to the partition of India and how this effected the lives of people living the region at the time. Children will look at the consequences for different groups of people.

DT

Cooking and nutrition – developing a recipe Research and modify a traditional bolognese sauce recipe to improve the nutritional value. Cook improved version and create packaging that fits design criteria. Learn about where beef comes from.

PSHE

Healthy Me

• Know how to make choices that benefit their own health and well-being

• Know about different types of drugs and the effect on people’s bodies

• Know that some people can be exploited and made to do things that are against the law

• Know why some people join gangs and the risk that this can involve

• Know what it means to be emotionally well and that stress can be triggered by a range of things

• Know that being stressed can cause drug and alcohol misuse

Computing

Programming – Variables in Games

Explores the concept of variables in programming through games in Scratch. What variables are, relate them to real-world examples of values that can be set and changed. Pupils will then use variables to create a simulation of a scoreboard (Scratch).

Music

Charanga – Theme: Motown. Dancin' in the street

All the learning in this unit is focused around one song: Dancing In The Street by Martha And The Vandellas. Children will experiment with performing backing vocals and will also perform three riffs

using the notes F, G and A on different instruments.

RE

Christianity – This term we will look at Jesus and some of the miracles he performed. We will also look at Christian pilgrimages to various places.

MFL

This term in Spanish, the children will be learning about their home. They will be learning to: 

• Say whether they live in a house or an apartment and say where it is.
• Repeat, recognise and try to spell up to ten nouns (including the correct article for each) for the rooms of the house in Spanish.
• Tell somebody in Spanish what rooms they have or do not have in their home.
• Ask somebody in Spanish what rooms they have or do not have in their home.
• Attempt to create a longer spoken or written passage in Spanish recycling previously learnt language (incorporating personal details such as their name and age).