Year 5T    Autumn Term 2008

LITERACY:

• Stories and novels by significant authors (class novel – Street Child)
• Instructional texts
• Poetry
• Stories from other cultures
• Guided reading
• Spelling conventions and rules
• Sentence construction, punctuation and grammar

NUMERACY:

• Counting, partitioning and calculating
• Multiplication facts to 10x10
• Multiplication and division by 10,100,1000.
• Securing number facts; understanding shape
• Handling data and measures
• Calculating, measuring and understanding shape

SCIENCE:

• Keeping healthy – foods needed for a healthy and varied diet;  learning about the heart and how the heart beat is affected by exercise
• Life Cycles

ICT:

• Developing keyboard and word processing skills
• Graphical modelling – using an object based graphics package to produce images

HISTORY:

• A study of the Victorians – achievements, school life, home life, leisure, working conditions, industry and transport
• Compare their lives with children in Victorian times

ART:

• Self portraits
• Seasonal themes
• Observational drawing
• Activities based on the Victorians
• Study of William Morris

RE:

• Harvest, Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur, Succot
• Christian beliefs and practices
• Advent and Christingle

Music:

• African songs/chants
• Harmony in singing
• Tuned and untuned ostinato
• Iron man composition

Geography:

Next term

DT:

• Bread

PSHE:

New Beginnings;

• Have opportunities to appreciate and celebrate differences and similarities between them
• To value their gifts and talents

Getting on and falling out:

• Consider the qualities of becoming good friends

Practise using ‘peaceful problem solving’