Year 5 - Swallow And Amazon & The BFG
As readers:
We will be reading ‘Oliver Twist. As part of this we will be exploring vocabulary, discussing the meaning of characters’ actions and inferring meaning from events implied in the text. We will be making predictions based on what has already happened and what we know of characters’ motivations as well as summarising what we have read.
Our whole class reading sessions will be continuing our study of ‘Oliver Twist’ as well as linking our reading to our History topic of the Victorians. We will be focussing on developing fluency, retrieving information and making links to the main class story and learning about the Victorians in different social classes as well as in and outside of London alongside developing our inference and vocabulary skills.
Key vocabulary: workhouse, orphan, stereotype, Victorian, pickpocket
As writers:
We will be exploring Victorian inventions and creating non-chronological reports about our research to answer the Big Question “What were the important inventions of the Victorian era?”. We will then be looking at characters within the story and using our knowledge of perspective writing to capture a character within a setting by replicating Charles Dickens’s unique descriptive style in order to answer the Big Question “Who did Oliver meet on the road to London?”
Key vocabulary: emotive language, dialogue, narrative, description, informative, cohesion, clarity, parenthesis, adverbial, conjunction, subheading
As mathematicians:
We will be adding and subtracting decimals within and crossing one using column method and our knowledge of place value. We will then be looking at how to recognise and convert between different units of measure. We will also be looking at time and volume
Key vocabulary: decimal, hundredth, tenth, kilogram, gram, milligram, kilolitre, litre, millilitre, kilometre, metre, centimetre, millimetre, o’clock, half past, quarter to, quarter past
As scientists:
We will be studying the stages of growth and development in animals (including humans) as well as looking at gestation periods, growth and developmental stages in young humans. We will also be looking at the changes that occur inside and outside during different developmental stages of a human’s life cycle.
Key vocabulary: puberty, life cycles, infancy, adolescence, gestation, embryo, fetus
As historians:
We will be studying Victorian England to link in with our English topic of Oliver Twist. We will be studying who Queen Victoria was and why she was important, the impact of the Industrial Revolution, the inventions that came from that. We will also be looking at how Victorians improved health care and how leisure time differs from today.
Key vocabulary: accession, transition, manufactured, advancement, innovative, infectious, sanitation, leisure, prosperous
As artists:
We will be looking at how Victorians printed illustrations and exploring how to create our own printing plates for Oliver Twist. We will be looking at the different methods they used to create their printing plates and then making our own using linoleum carving and ink printing.
Key vocabulary: printing plate, illustration, printing press, relief
