Woodberry Down Community Primary School New Wave Federation

Woodberry Down Community Primary School Woodberry Grove

London N4 1SY 02088005758

Woodberry Down Primary School

Curriculum Information Summer 1

Year 5

IPC Topic:

Roots Shoots and Fruits

Computing

Religious Education

Physical Education

Please Remember

Our focus this term is Athletics where we will learn to

Sustain pace over short and longer distances such

as running 100m and running for 2 minutes

Able to run as part of a relay team working at their

maximum speed

Perform a range of jumps and throws

demonstrating increasing power and accuracy

We will also continue learning tennis with experts from the Finsbury Park Tennis Club.

PE:

Year 5 have P.E on Friday afternoons with the sports coaches. This year the children will also benefit from learning tennis skills from expert players from the Finsbury Park Tennis Club. These sessions will take place on Wednesdays. Please ensure children bring the appropriate PE kit with them on these days.

Book bags:

Year 5 must bring their completed reading journals and reading books to school everyday to be checked by the class teacher.

As religious learners, we will develop our knowledge of Sikhism. The children will have the opportunity to reflect on the statements of belief in Sikhism and make comparisons with other religions known to them.

We will find out about what Sikhs believe is important and the significant role the Gurdwara plays in the Community.

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Within our Computing sessions we will continue to enhance our digital literacy skills through the use of apps including Garage band, Keynote and Explain Everything. As the apps are not subject specific, the children will be provided with oppor-tunities to explore various aspects of the apps in a number of ways, across all curriculum areas. As always, we will continue to promote the im-portance of E-Safety during the use of our digital resources.

The children will implement their skills learned to showcase our topic learning, through digital leaflets and posters

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How can you help me at home? Help me practise my times tables at speed. By the end of the term children should be confident with all their times tables up to 10. All of the children have a log-in for Times Table Rockstars.

Help me practise my spellings. Spelling tests will happen every Monday and a new set of words to learn will be given to your child to take home for the following week.

IPC Topic

REMEMBER OUR IPC

PERSONAL LEARNING GOALS

resilience adaptability

thoughtfulness

morality

respect

enquiry

communication

cooperation

Reading Mathematics

Writing

Our IPC unit this term is ‘‘Roots, Fruits and Shoots’ .

As scientists, we will be discovering how plants grow, the conditions required for germination, the reproductive parts of a plant and the different methods by which they reproduce including pollination.

As artists, we will be drawing the anatomy of invertebrates such a bees and butterflies and looking at the work of artists such as Georgia O’Keefe.

As Global Learners, we will be learning about different approaches to pollinator protection around the globe. This will help us to further develop our enquiry, morality and communication skills.

As readers, we will develop our knowledge of how an author uses language choices and techniques to create character arcs, suspense, dilemmas and plot strands.

We will continue to practise our skills in inferring the text, and discussing story formatting.

This helps embed our deeper understanding of how authors use writing devices to enthral their readers!

As mathematicians, we will develop our knowledge of units of measurement and how we use conversions between measures. More specifically, we will focus on units of measure for time, mass, length and also we will explore imperial and metric units of measurement .

The children will also be provided the opportunity to extend their knowledge of decimals and whole numbers. We will continue to practise our skills in representing decimals in different ways, using the four operations and solving word problems.

The acquired knowledge from both units will help us to make wider connections to real life problems.

IPC linked writing will include poetry about insects, and explanation reports about pollination and germination. We will focus on our use of technical vocabulary and ensuring that we are spelling accurately.

We will end the term with writing weeks, with daily writing sessions themed around our book, ‘Wonder’. We will be using clauses to extend our sentences and continue to practise using all the grammar associated with writing speech to create narrative stories.

‘Excellence for All’