Year 5 - Swallow And Amazon & The BFG
Swallows and Amazons & The BFG
Summer 1
Our Text
We will be reading a retelling of Shakespeare’s Macbeth by Tony Bradman. As part of this, we will be inferring meaning, exploring vocabulary, making predictions, retrieving information and summarising what we have read. Grammar: Expanded noun phrases, speech marks and dialogue, colons and semi colons, brackets for parenthesis and causal conjunctions.
As writers
We will be completing two main pieces of writing:
Fiction - We are going to investigate an learn about retelling a scene using some Shakespearian language including dialogue, our BQ is: What happened when Macbeth met the witches?
Non-Fiction (The UK) – We are going to investigate debates and then write a balanced argument using causal conjunctions. Our BQ is: Where in the UK would you like to holiday?
As Readers
Our whole class reading sessions will be linked to our geography topic, ‘The UK”. We will be focussing on a mixture of fiction and non-fiction texts and their features. There will be a focus on developing fluency and expression. In addition, we shall practise the skills of retrieval, skimming, scanning and dictionary work. We will use these texts: A Country Shaped By Travel – information text PRS, Who's In Charge? – information text, Charles Rennie Mackintosh – information, Four Nations In One – information text and The River Severn -information text
As Mathematicians
This half term we will have two main topics. Firstly Shapes and Angles. Here are some of our main BQs: What are angles? How do we classify angles? How do we measure angles?
Secondly we will be focusing on Position and Direction. Here are some of our BQs: What are coordinates? How do you translate a shape? What is symmetry and reflection?
Key Vocabulary: Degrees, Obtuse, Acute, Reflex, Protractor, Accurate, Full Turn, Half turn, Regular, Irregular, Polygon Coordinates, Axis, Vertices, Translation, Symmetrical, Horizonal, Vertical, Diagonal
AS SCIENTISTS
Year 5 will be learning about Materials. We will investigate this topic and we will answer some Big Questions such as: Which materials dissolve in a liquid to form a solution? Will the size of jelly cubes affect dissolving time? How can mixtures and solutions be separated? Are all changes reversible? Is this a reversible or irreversible change?
Key Vocabulary: Transparent , Solution, Soluble, Insoluble, Predict, Dependant variable, Independent variable, Solvent, Solute , Reversible, Irreversible, Filtration, Evaporation, Reversible, Irreversible
AS GEOGRAPHERS
We will take a closer look at The UK and we answer big questions such as What does the United Kingdom consist of? What is a county? What are the human features of a city? What are the major mountain ranges in the UK? What are the geographical features of a coast? What are the geographical features of a coast?
Key vocabulary: Population, urban, rural, County, sections, regions, border, coastline, Landmark, tourist attraction, cathedral, Hill, mountain, summit, tectonic plates, topographical, Coast, stack, harbour, estuary, arch, headland, pebbles, harbour, estuary, arch, headland, pebbles.
AS ARTISTS
We will be exploring Katherine Briçonnet, Architecture and Perspective drawing of castles for Macbeth.
RELIGIOUS EDUCATION:
We will be investigating Humanism and what motivates Humanists to lead good lives?
PSHE:
We will be looking at Relationships and covering these topics: Self-recognition and self-worth Building self-esteem, Safer online communities, Rights and responsibilities online, Online gaming and gambling, Reducing screen time, Dangers of online grooming, SMARRT internet safety rules.
