TOPICS/CURRICULUM
Summer Term 2
Welcome back! We hope you all had a lovely half term break. We had a fantastic half term honing our geographic skills, deepening our understanding of maths and beginning our core text: The House with Chicken Legs.
Now, we look forward to a new term to show off everything we have learned this year. This booklet will give further details of all the subject areas that the children will be learning.
Summer Term 2 Topic: Explore - City
We will be learning:
- About cities and settlements around the world
- Map reading and sketching
- Human and physical geography
- Timezones
- Latitude and longitude
- Sustainability
- Life in Europe, North and South America
- To collate our learning into a final project
Our project concepts this term are: power, change and sustainability
English Learning
In English, we will be completing our studies of Sophie Anderson’s The House with Chicken Legs. We will be practising our prose and poetry writing, as well as learning performance skills. We will be learning:
- About the themes and motifs in the book
- About poetic devices including meter and rhyme
- About characterisation and narrative
- To write our own poetic monologues and dialogues
- To perform slam-style poetry in front of another class
- Advanced grammar including colons, semi-colons and parethesis
Mathematical Learning
This half term we are looking at:
- Working with decimals and how to add and subtract them
- Consolidating understanding of the four formal operations
- Understanding negative numbers
- Converting units of measure
- Working out the volumes of shapes and related problems
PSHE Learning
We will be learning about human rights and how we can be a good citizen
French Learning
This half term we will be deepening our understanding of the French language with Mrs Gibbs.
Scientific Learning
This half term will be completing Life Cycles and Habitats and Forces. We will learn:
- The forces at work on our planet and in the universe
- About the different types of life in our world
- How different animals are suited to their habitats
- About the life cycles of different animals from
- Different classes of the animal kingdom
Art Learning
We are learning to use different media and artistic techniques with Mrs Miles.
Music Learning
We will be learning about classical, popular and (of course) rock music with Mr Smith, and get a chance to perform different musical pieces with assorted instruments and analyse and compare different artists and tracks.
Faith and Wonder Learning
We are learning about the messages in the Bible and thinking about the question “What would Jesus do?”
Computing Learning
We working on making our own stop-go animation films
PE Learning
Lewes will be focusing on Athletics this half term - we will be working on our jumping, throwing and running techniques. Amberley will be working on their teamwork skills and knowledge of first aid with Mr Mayne.
How can you help?
- Continuing to read regularly at home to an adult, with lots of discussion about the books.
- Lots of regular times table testing and quick maths skills following the instructions indicated on the home learning sheets. The faster the response, the better!
- Supporting your child with learning their spellings, discussing the meanings of words, putting them into sentences and reviewing spellings from previous weeks.
- All of this will be on the weekly home learning sheets.
Events/Trips planned for this half term
- Monday 17th June – Book Fair
- Tuesday 18th June – Legacy Games at The Angmering School
- Friday 21st June – Year 5 and 6 Sports Day 10.45am
- Tuesday 25th June – Church Pipe Organ Tour
- Wednesday 3rd July Transition Day
- Friday 19th July – End of term!
Further dates and information may come out from the Office throughout the half term.
If you have any resources you are happy to loan to us or have any particular knowledge about any of our focuses, please let us know.
Class emails:
amberley@stmargaretsprimary.org.uk
lewes@stmargaretsprimary.org.uk
The Year 5 team
