Year 5 - Swallow And Amazon & The BFG
Swallows and Amazons & The BFGs
Summer 1
As readers:
We will be reading ‘Macbeth’. 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 linked to our Geography topic of the United Kingdom. We will be focussing on developing fluency, retrieving information and making links to the main class story and learning about the political structure of the United Kingdom, how the country has developed and been shaped by travel and about some of the important rivers in the country alongside developing our inference and vocabulary skills.
Key vocabulary: prophecy, subtext, inference, witches, premonition, impact, travel, river, nations
As writers:
We will be exploring how to create atmosphere and tension in descriptive writing as well as developing the way we can use dialogue to support this in order to answer the Big Question: “How does a prophecy come true?”. We will also be creating an information text linked to our Geography topic of ‘the United Kingdom’ to answer the Big Question “Where in the UK would you like to holiday?” and developing our use and understanding of cohesive devices such as conjunctions, adverbials of time, manner and frequency as well as parentheses for clarity and cohesion.
Key vocabulary: emotive language, dialogue, narrative, description, informative, cohesion, clarity, parenthesis, adverbial, conjunction
As mathematicians:
We will be classifying and naming angles before learning to use a protractor to measure angles, find missing angles and use our knowledge of angles on a straight line to find missing angles without a protractor. We will also be looking at coordinates, how they are written and how they can change when translating shapes on a grid. We will then be re-visiting decimals and looking at how to add and subtract with decimal numbers.
Key vocabulary: obtuse, acute, reflex, protractor, angle, coordinate, translate, decimal, hundredth, tenth
As scientists:
We will be learning about forces and exploring what the effects of gravity are on unsupported objects, how friction affects moving surfaces, what air resistances is and how it affects things that are falling and what levers and pulleys are and how they can affect the forces acting on an object.
Key vocabulary: weight, size, mass, shape, height, gravity, Earth, friction, surface, force, air resistance, water resistance, mechanisms, levers, pulleys, gears
As geographers:
We will be studying the geographical features of the United Kingdom. We will be looking at what makes up the United Kingdom, what counties are, what are the human features of a city, mountain ranges in the UK and what are the features of a coast?
Key vocabulary: population, urban, rural, county, sections, regions, boarder, coastline, landmark, tourist attraction, cathedral, hill, mountain, summit, tectonic plates, topographical, coast, stack, harbour, estuary, arch, headland, pebbles
As artists:
We will be looking at the work of Katherine Briçonnet and designing our own perspective drawings of castles linking to our reading of Macbeth. We will be learning who Katherine Briçonnet was and how her work impacted architecture and the legacy she left in her work.
Key vocabulary: castle, architectural, perspective, scale, battlement, turret, tower, buttress, curtain wall, barbican, dungeon, portcullis
