Our topic is
The Battle of Britain
Mathematics (some key objectives)
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English (some key objectives)
Spelling
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Learn to spell homophones and near homophones (groan, grown); adding
suffixes beginning with a vowel to words of more than one syllable
(forget + ing = forgetting); adding ‘ly correctly (comically, happily)
Children will also be expected to learn words from (a few each week) the
Year 5 and 6 spelling list (see attached)
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Reading
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Read, discuss, respond to ‘The Machine-Gunners’ by Robert Westall.
Develop reading skills: predicting, drawing inferences, summarising, justifying
opinions with evidence. Exploring how non-fiction texts are laid out
Writing composition
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Write a diary about the experience of Bowles
Write a non-chronological report about British soldiers in WW2
Write a short adventure story set in WW2 on the Home Front
Editing and proof reading skills (e.g. for tenses, punctuation and spelling)
Grammar/punctuation
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Revise apostrophe for possession
Revise modal verbs (could, would, might etc)
Using parenthesis (e.g. to add information in a non-fiction text)
Developing understanding of the semi-colon
Using bullet points
Special Events
 Bowles Residential Trip
 WW2 ‘experience’ day
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Identify the value of each digit in numbers given to two decimal places, and
multiply and divide numbers by 10 and 100 giving answers up to two decimal
places.
Use, read, write and convert between standard units, converting
measurements of mass from a smaller unit of measure to a larger unit, and
vice versa, using decimal notation up to two decimal places.
Read, write, order and compare whole numbers to at least 5 000 000
Round any whole number to a required degree of accuracy.
Compare and order fractions.
Use common factors to simplify fractions; use common multiples to express
fractions in the same denomination.
Recall and use equivalences between simple fractions, decimals and
percentages.
Perform mental calculations, including with mixed operations and large
numbers.
Solve addition and subtraction multi-step problems in contexts, deciding
which operations and methods to use and why.
Use knowledge of the order of operations to carry out calculations involving
the four operations.
Multiply multi-digit numbers up to four digits by a 2-digit whole number
using the formal method of long multiplication.
Science (‘Let it Shine’)
 Working scientifically: make accurate measurements, predict, record and
interpret results
 Make careful observations; present data in appropriate ways; suggest
ways evidence supports or contradicts an idea
 Recognise that light appears to travel in straight lines.
 Use the idea that light travels in straight lines to explain why shadows
have the same shape as the objects that cast them.
 Use the idea that light travels in straight lines to explain that objects
are seen because they give out or reflect light into the eye.
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History Topic
 Understand why WW2 started – what events led to the outbreak of
war?
 Find out about the Battle of Britain and why it was such an important
event in British history
 Use original sources of information (film, posters, diaries) to
understand evacuation
 Find out how civilians coped with the Blitz. Examine original photos.
 Be a museum curator and decide on objects that best illustrate the
period; justify choices
Computing
 ‘We are game developers’: making an interactive game
Music (Mrs Dunsby)
 Music- exploring rounds
 Develop children's ability to sing and play in two or more parts and
look at the effect of harmony and discord.
French
 Madame Harding – every Monday
RE (Mrs Dunsby)/PSHE
 Religion around me: interviews with children from different religions
speaking about their own individual reflections on what their faith
means to them and their everyday lives.
 Develop strategies for understanding and controlling emotions and
dealing with negative pressures.
Physical Development
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Invasion games skills: football, handball, netball
What can you do at home?
 Use the internet to research the Battle of Britain
 Find out about your family in WW2 (interview relatives)
 Read daily for 20 minutes and talk about it; add entries in Reading
Journal to show any new words you have acquired.
 Read a newspaper (match reports, world events)
 Learn times table facts, including related division facts (7 x 8 = 56
so 56 ÷ 7 = 8)
 Learn spellings together (see ideas in the homework book)
 Visit the local library (it’s free)
Please note
 PE Tuesday/Friday (kit in Monday, taken home Friday to wash)
 Homework set Monday, due in Friday.
 Forest School – Wednesday.