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Parent/Carer Overview Spring 2015
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Making and editing an advert about space travel.
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Key dates/events: 9 January- Greek immersion day; 23 January - Trip to the British Museum; Greek Myths
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Workshop; 3 February Science Museum Trip- Space Workshop; Week Commencing 2 February- Greek Cooking
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week; 13 March- Ancient Greek Day; 23th March Ex’straw’dinary Engineering workshop
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As communicators we will be learning about:
Narrative texts – Greek Myths – Perseus and Medusa, Demeter
and Persephone, Daedalus and Icarus.
Non – fiction texts –Adverts- Creating a space travel advert
Poetry – Free verse, rhyming and shape poems - If the Earth by Joe
Miller, Triangles by Paul Chandler, The Night is Yours by Charlotte
Coltman, Hidden Woods by Holly Mc Nish
Theme: Our
Greek Odyssey
Year: 5
Date: Spring
Religious Education - Judaism
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Geography
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Maths:
As mathematicians we will be learning about:
 Place Value- 6 digit numbers, negative number and 6 digit
problems. Subtracting mentally, written addition and
subtraction and subtracting decimals.
 Angles, perimeter, area, Line graphs
 Multiplication- TU x TU using grid and expanded written
method, Division of HTU with decimal and fraction
remainders
 Ordering, adding and subtracting fractions
 Decimals- ordering, rounding and problem solving
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Converting lengths- cm to mm, m to km, metric to
imperial
Science
As scientists we will be learning about:
 Space -The movement of the Earth, moon and other
planets, relative to each other and the Sun in the solar
system
 Exploring how the Earth’s rotation explains day and night
and the apparent movement of the sun across the sky
 Features of planets and rockets
 Life Cycles- life cycles of mammals, an amphibian, an
insect and birds
 The life process of reproduction in some plants and
animals
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This is an overview of our planned learning
in Spring Term. We will be using Ancient
Greece as a basis for many aspects, but not
all, of our learning.
What is the Passover and who celebrates it?
The sedar plate
Abraham’s Story
Orthodox Jewish practices
Moses and the Pesach
European Study- Comparison of Naxos to Kingston
Settlement and use of land in Naxos and Kingston
Coasts and Climate of Naxos
Using maps and digital mapping to locate and describe
countries
Making observations about human and physical local
geography
History - Ancient Greece
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A study of Greek life and achievements and the influence
of Greek civilisation on the western world.
Art and Design - Mosaic
PSHE
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Entrepreneurial skills
Qualities of famous entrepreneurs
Communicating to the wider public
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Collect ideas in a collage form in sketch books
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Experiment with adding collage to a printed background.
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Use a range of media to create collages
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Create a mosaic using collage ideas.
Design and Technology
French
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Personal Identity
School
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Food- Bread and Cakes
Looking at a Mediterranean diet and experiencing
different foods and how they are made.
Investigate with bread recipes and shaped bread.
Physical Education
Music
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Tone poems
Dance macabre
Composing music to pictures
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Swim competently and confidently as well as develop our
technique and stamina
Outdoor learning - specifically looking at orienteering,
journeying and team building exercises.