SPRING 1, 2018

EARLY CIVILISTIONS

THE INDUS VALLEY

Year 5

Take Off: What was the Indus Valley

Landing: Class Assembly

Audience: School

HOME LEARNING AT EMNETH ACADEMY WE ENCOURAGE CHILDREN TO COMPLETE HOME

LEARNING TO SUPPORT THE TOPIC AND TO DEVELOP THEIR KEY SKILLS.

TOWARDS THE END OF THE TOPIC, CHILDREN WILL BE ASKED TO BRING

THEIR HOME LEARNING IN TO SHOW THEIR TEACHER AND PEERS.

TOPIC BASED HOME LEARNING

Can you make a Power Point presentation about a topic of your choice?

What can you find out about the Indus Valley?

Can you work on adding and subtracting fractions?

Year 5 Expectations

Children are expected to have their ‘Home Contact Books’ with them in class

every day to use the excellent key facts to help support their learning. Each

Monday pupils will have up to 15 spellings to learn for a test on Friday. Chil-

dren read at home every day, including weekends, or 75minutes in a week -

this can be recorded in ‘Home Contact Books’

TOPIC OVERVIEW

Immersive Learning

Place a number of Indus picture

around the classroom to show the

scenes and artefacts,

Images of what the landscape of

the Indus Valley would have been

like in the past.

Questions

Why is the history of the Indus Valley important?

Why did the Indus Valley cease to exist?

What was everyday life like for the Indus people?

Top 20!

Residential—Skiing

Mentoring

WHOLE SCHOOL EVENTS

4th January: Pupils back into school

22nd - 26th January: Scotland Residential

29th January: Story Telling Week

9th February: Finish for half term

Assemblies

Learn about the Indus Valley and where it fits into the historical timeline.

Discover the location of the civilisation, the terrain and climate. Learn about

the way of life of the people that lived there and look at theories as to why it

ended.

Add picture

TOPIC BASED SUBJECTS

SCIENCE

Living things and their habitats—

Make habitats for certain animals.

Research one habitat in depth.

Create a presentation about your

chosen habitat to share.

LITERACY

• Explanatory writing

Recognising and using key features in their writing.

Research and record key topic facts using ICT.

• Reading comprehension

• Spellings

HISTORY

Learn where the Indus Valley civilisa-

tion fits on a world history timeline.

Investigate their society, buildings

and cities.

Look at the theories given to explain

why the civilisation ended.

Think about what it was like to live

in that time.

NON- TOPIC BASED SUBJECTS

BRITISH VALUES

The Rule of Law

Democracy - How does modern de-

mocracy differ from that in the In-

dus Valley

Individual Liberty

Mutual Respect and tolerance for

other and faiths (or no faiths)

PHILOSOPHY

Understanding of what ‘civilisation’

could mean.

Understand how civilisations can

cease to exist.

PHYSICAL EDUCATION

Gymnastics with a focus on syn-

chronisation, unison and cannon.

RELIGIOUS EDUCATION

Islam—

Beliefs and questions

Religion and the individual

Religion, family and community

Worship, pilgrimage and sacred places

OTHER LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES

NON-TOPIC BASED SUBJECTS

MATHEMATICS

AET Units

7 - Discovering Equivalence

8 - Reasoning with Fractions

SPELLING, PUNCTUATION,

GRAMMAR

Investigating determiners

Looking at expanded noun

phrases.

Relative clauses

Using brackets

LANGUAGES (GERMAN)

Learning to say the days of the

week and months of the year.

MUSIC

Charanga -

Adele—Make you feel my Love

PSHE

Say no to bullying.

Good to be me.

TOPIC BASED SUBJECTS

COMPUTING

Computing this half term will be

linked to topic work for research

and also Science for research and

presentations. Children will be using

Microsoft Power Point for their

presentations.

GEOGRAPHY

Locate the civilisation using maps, atlases, globes and ICT and describe

features studied.

Learn about terrain and climate of the Indus Valley.

DESIGN AND TECHNOLOGY

Design and create a ‘shoe box’

habitat using different materials.

ART AND DESIGN

Improve mastery of art and design techniques including drawing, painting and

sculpting. Create some artefacts the have been studied.