Our Autumn Term

Writing

Our first piece of writing is focused on a video from The Literacy Shed called ‘Ruin’. This links with our Geography topic. Children will create a Diary Entry from the main character’s point of view.

We will then work on creating an Information Text based on the countries of Europe. Children will be assigned countries of Europe and they will research all the information about their given country.

Our third piece of writing will be based on a video clip called 'The Lighthouse', children will apply their learning  and be challenged to recall all we will learn from 'Ruin' and to use the techniques and skills to write a new Independent Diary Entry Sticky Write.

The fourth piece of writing will be a Persuasive Text, based on enticing tourists to visit the country they choose for their information text. As the children will have already researched their chosen country for the information texts, it will be exciting to see if they can convince people to visit their chosen country.

As we begin Autumn 2 half term, we hope to use a video called 'The Ridge' to hook the children's interest in being able to write a Setting Description. The language and vocabulary focus will allow the children to draft, edit and up-level by reading and rereading their work. We also used peer assessment to see what else could be added to make the setting descriptions even better.

The final piece of writing for the Autumn Term will be based on 'How The Grinch Stole Christmas' and will be an Instructional Text.

Geography

In Year 5 we will learn new Physical and Human geographical vocabulary and features. Our focus is on the continent we live in – Europe. We will use our knowledge to find countries on a map and to identify capital cities of Europe. We will understand how mountain ranges are formed and can identify the tallest mountains in Europe – and compare them to other mountains around the world. We will build on our knowledge of rivers and compare the rivers of the UK with the ones of the continent. 

Maths

We will build our knowledge of Place Value, the four operations of Addition, Subtraction, Multiplication and Division.

Using 'Power Maths' we will find out about Square Numbers, Cubed Numbers, Prime Numbers, Fractions, Improper Fractions, Mixed Numbers, Multiplying and Dividing by 10, 100, and 1,000, the language of mathematics (numerator, denominator, prime, odd, even, factors, multiples, integers, decimal etc.)

Science

We will be working on forces (push and pull, friction, air-resistance, water resistance). 

We will be learning through lots of investigations and experiments.