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| Year 5 Curriculum June - July |
| English: "Letters to Leah" |
A detailed reading of ‘Letters to Leah’ by Josephine Croser together with focused letter writing activities during which children should be able to
- Read confidently , fluently, clearly and accurately from the text
- Understand how the author uses complex sentences for effect
- Know that authors sometimes use letters and diaries to structure stories
- Make comparisons with other types of stories
- Respond to the language and themes of the stories in their writing
- Demonstrate understanding of narrative written as letters in the 1 st person
- Choose language and images to suggest character, mood and atmosphere
- Write in paragraphs with correctly punctuated sentences
- Use tense and subject verb agreement correctly (e.g. I run, he runs, we run)
- Use the apostrophe to show possession (e.g. it was John's bucket)
- Use the comma to clarify the meaning of complex sentences
- Set out letters correctly and write both formal and informal letters
- Edit their own writing for misspellings, punctuation and grammatical errors
Work could be carried out at home to encourage children to write different types of letters e.g. to a relative, to a magazine, a letter of complaint etc
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| Maths: Primary Framework for Mathematics |
The planning structure for each year is organised into five blocks. The structure is the same for each year group. Each block has incorporated into it objectives from the Using and applying mathematics strand and from two or three of the other core strands. The blocks are:
- Block A: Counting, partitioning and calculating
- Block B: Securing number facts, understanding shape
- Block C: Handling data and measures
- Block D: Calculating, measuring and understanding shape
- Block E: Securing number facts, relationships and calculating
Each block is made up of three units. A unit represents 2 or 3 weeks of teaching. The units are designed to be used independently when planning a period of 2 or 3 weeks' work.
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| Science: Earth, Sun and Moon |
- Words and phrases related to the shape and movement of the Earth and Moon
- How the Earth, Sun and Moon are spherical and to support this with evidence
- How shadows change and how the Sun appears to move across the sky owing to the rotation of the Earth
- How it is daylight in the part of the Earth facing the Sun
- How to explain the changes in the appearance of the Moon over a period of 28 days due to the Moon orbiting the Earth every 28 day.
NB: Sex education also takes place during this study block
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| Information and Communication Technology: Cross Curricular |
This block allows children to use their knowledge of ICT to support their work in other curriculum areas.
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| Religious Education: Sikhism and the Gurus |
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| Geography: Uganda |
- Use atlases to locate countries
- Understand the weather and climate of Uganda
- Understand how the everyday lives of people in Uganda
- Understand the workign lives of people in Uganda
- Understand the difference in schoiols betwenn Uganda and the UK
- Understand the problems facing developing countries such as Uganda
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 Uganda: interactive teaching resource |
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| Design Technology: Mechanisms |
- Understand how the speed of rotation can be changed
- Be able to make a 3-D jinks box
- Be able to fit a gear system to the jinks box
- Produce a clear, detailed and labelled design
- Be able to work safely and accurately
- Suggest ways of improving the product by evaluating it critically
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| Physical Education: |
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| SEAL - Social and Emotional Aspects of Learning |
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| Music: Music Processes |
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