Year5
Spring12016-17
Topic: Ancient Greece
In Literacy, your child will be
learning the following key skills:
§ Retell the myth of Hercules
§ Rewrite the story of Hercules using
description
§ Summarise the story to present as a
comic strip
Books we will be reading:
§ Story of Hercules (variety of stories,
both text and visual)
§ Greek Myths by Marcia Williams
Educational Visit:
We will be visiting different businesses in
the city as part of our enterprise learning.
Grammar: definitions to learn
Parenthesis: A parenthesis is additional
information added into a sentence as an
explanation or an afterthought. A
parenthesis can be separated from the rest
of the sentence by commas, dashes, or
brackets (all called parentheses).
Bracket: brackets are used when a writer
wants to add information to a sentence that
will give greater detail to the information
presented. However, the information is
extra and not really necessary, which means
In Maths, your child will be learning
the following key skills:
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Numbers & place values
Addition & subtraction: written
methods and solving word
problems
Multiplication & Division:
written methods and word
problems
Geometry: problems involving
shape and space
Measurement: mass
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Key Maths vocabulary to learn and
spell:
Multiply, divide
Hexagon, octagon, 2D, 3D, triangular
prism, square based pyramid
Mass, weigh, kilograms, grammes, scales,
weight
Key subject vocabulary to learn and spell:
Earth
Planet
Solar System
Rotate
Axis
Orbit
Heliocentric
Geocentric
Satellite
Revolve
Greece
Greek
Olympus
Goddesses
Gods
Myth
Polytheistic
Pantheon
Empire
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that it can be removed with ease and
without damaging the original information.
Dash: The dash (—) is a mark of
punctuation used to set off a word or phrase
after an independent clause or to set off a
parenthetical remark (i.e., words, phrases,
or clauses that interrupt a sentence).
Your child will also be learning:
Learn by heart:
Spellings (Spelling Bee, from DfE): learn
§ About Earth and Space in Science;
to spell
about the different planets, how the All times tables from 1-12: multiplication
earth rotates, explanation of night
and division. Pupils should be able to
Amateur, ancient, apparent, appreciate,
and day and the different seasons
complete 100 multiplication/ division
attached, competition, conscience, conscious,
§ About Ancient Greeks in Historyquestion in under 4 minutes
controversy, convenience, environment,
organising information
equip, (–ped, –ment) especially, exaggerate
chronologically and finding
*children must be able to say these in any
information using Secondary
order and quickly
Mathematical vocabulary: isosceles, scalene,
sources
rhombus, parallel, perpendicular, quadrant,
§ How to make a Greek Salad in
likelihood, certain, uncertain, probable,
Design and Technology
possible, impossible,
§ Using pencil drawings to create
comic strips in Art
§ How to recognise different rhythms
in Music
§ Important stories in Religious
Education
§ About values and virtues in PSHE
§ How to programme algorithms in
computing
§ How to talk about your school/
classroom/favourite subjects/ state
the time in French
You can help your child by:
Helping them to learn their spellings and what they mean by looking them up in the dictionary and using them when talking and writing.
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Completing the home learning project to develop knowledge about the topic.
Learning key number facts.
Helping them to memorise and recite the poem ‘Defending the title’ (see below), asking questions about what the poem is about.
Helping them to learn the new vocabulary: definitions and spelling
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Poetry- Year 5, spring 1
As part of the National Curriculum for English, children must be able to learn,
by heart, recite and perform poetry. Every half term, a new poem will be given
to each year group. Time should be spent learning the poem at home, there will
be opportunities to practise and perform in school.
Defending the title
by Rachel Rooney
I am the word juggler.
I juggle the words
like swords.
I slice sense
with poetic license.
I am the letter mover
the metre lover.
Like rhyme
I time this
for poetic justice.
I am the brain rattler.
Shaking ideas
like dice.
A notion
in poetic motion.
I am the verse making
rule bending defender.
Beginner
and ender.
I am the champion.
Possible home learning activities to extend children’s understanding of the
poem:
§ Find the meanings of the words in bold
§ Draw a picture to illustrate the poem
§ Create your own verse to fit in with ‘Defending the title’
§ Answers some questions about the poem, for example:
o What do you think the poem is about? Why?
o Why do you think the author/ poet entitled the poem ‘Defending
the title’?
o Why has the author used ‘dice’ in verse 4? What word connect
dice with the rest of the verse?