1. Pl Pl Learning Map for Year 5 : Spring 2019 Year 5 – Meet the Maya
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Learning Map for Year 5 : Spring 2019
Podcasting
Audio recording using Audacity. What is a podcast? Creating and recording a jingle.
Recording and editing interviews to create a podcast.
Gymnastics unit
Focus on balancing. Exploration of ‘counter balance’ and ‘counter tension’. Use of apparatus.
Swimming – Spring 2
‘The Viewer’ by Gary Crew
Poetry writing – Using descriptive language based on illustrations.
Persuasive letter Writing – Phrases to create cohesion. Presenting a balanced or biased argument. Using a variety of punctuation, including commas for clarity.
Stories with a historical setting – ‘The Hero Twins’ a Mayan civilisation story. Using dialogue to move the story on. Accurately punctuating speech. Pl
Other Exciting Events:
Kidzania
Science morning at Tolworth
Chocolate Museum
Puppet Pals
Using an animation to create a presentation about the journey of chocolate ‘from bean to bar’.
Outdoor PE
Spring 1 - Circuit training (multi-skills).
Spring 2 – Kwik Cricket
‘Charlie and the Chocolate Factory’ by Roald Dahl
Character and setting descriptions – Descriptive language to engage the reader.
Writing using formal language - Creating a ‘Golden Ticket’.
Performance Poetry – Creating an Oompa Loompa Rhyme
Science PE
Computing
Forces
Investigating how unsupported objects fall towards the Earth because of gravity. Identifying the effects of air resistance, water resistance and friction. Recognising that some mechanisms, including levers, pulleys and gears, allow a smaller force to have a greater effect.
Living Things and their Habitats
Where do different animals live and why? Food chains and food webs. What happens when habitats change?
English
History
Year 5 – Meet the Maya
Meet the Maya
Who were the Maya and where in the world did they live? What were their key religious beliefs? Similarities and differences with faiths today. How did they communicate? Learning about their number and writing systems. Exploring different sources of information - what can we learn from these? RE
Music
Understanding faith in our community.
Investigating faiths and beliefs in our class, finding out how beliefs have changed over the last 50 years, finding out how faith groups work together.
What happens in Church at Easter?
This unit culminates in a visit to The Easter Experience.
Maths
Keyboards
Continuing whole class lessons. Preparing for performance at class assembly.
Geography
Roman numerals: reading up to 1000 and recognising dates (including years) written in Roman numerals.
Chocolate
Where in the world is cacao grown? What is the climate like in these countries? What is the process that they go through to create the chocolate? What is Fairtrade? Why is it important? What is sustainability?
Place value in numbers with up to 6 digits. Using rounding to estimate and complete mental calculations. Addition and subtraction of powers of 10. Using all 4 written methods for calculation.
Identify and describe properties of 2D & 3D shapes. Naming and classifying types of triangle and quadrilateral. Identifying regular and irregular shapes.
PSHE
Mayan Weaving
What were they made from? Using a sketchbook to collect ideas to support design. Making choices about the materials to be used (including natural materials). Creating patterns using weaving. Evaluating work.
Pop Art
What is Pop Art? Who was Andy Warhol? Colour mixing. Sketching techniques, including enlarging images. Creating work in the style of Andy Warhol.
Say no to Bullying
To explore what the term ‘bullying’ means. To think about how we can prevent this in our own community. To look at appropriate use of social media other messaging applications.
Identify and use different units of measure. Convert between different units of measure, including using conversion graphs.
Fractions – simplifying fractions. Converting between mixed number and improper fractions. Addition and subtraction of fractions.
Art & DT