Year Group: 5
Valence Primary School Curriculum Forecast
Term: Spring 1 2016
Literacy:
- Stories from other cultures
- Classic/narrative poems
- Persuasive writing
Spelling:
- Words ending in ‘ence’
- Words ending in ‘ency’
- Silent letters eg: ‘g’ , ‘h’ and ‘u’ as
in guest etc;
- Additional topic related vocabulary
Numeracy
- Negative numbers
- Written subtraction
- Drawing angles
- Division with a remainder
- Ordering fractions
- Converting between metric and
imperial measures
Grammar:
- Possessive apostrophes
- Prepositional phrases
- Relative clauses
- Adverbials of time, manner and
place
- Modal verbs.
Creative Curriculum: Themes: Tudors
PSHE: Enabling Enterprises – a new venture.
RE: Faith – What does faith to me? How do individuals experience faith?
History: Changing Power of Monarchs. A significant turning point in British History.
Henry Vlll and his wives. Newspaper report, discovering a Tudor artefacts. A Tudor
project.
Science: Forces, including gravity, air resistance and propulsion and forces in water.
Computing: Children will be learning about ciphers and coding in encryption security.
Art/Design and Technology: Grid drawing.
Music: Tudor music and learning songs for our production in spring 2.
P.E. Games: Tag Rugby, gymnastics
Important Dates and Reminders:
Friday 5th February ‘Numbers day.’
Friday 5th February – maths workshops – parent and child working together:
9am and 2pm.
Monday and Tuesday 8th and 9th February – International days.
Wednesday and Thursday 10th and 11th February – Parents’ evening
Friday 12th February – INSET – School closed.
Please ensure your child has their PE kit for the following days:
Bonham: Opal: Tuesday and Thursday
Garnet: A longer session on Friday
St Georges: Opal: Tuesday and Wednesday Garnet: Monday and Thursday
Tanzanite: Thursday and Friday
Emerald: Tuesday and Thursday
Homework:
Literacy and Spellings: Given out weekly on a Tuesday and checked and tested the
following Monday,
Maths: Given out weekly on a Friday to be returned the following Friday.
Please continue to read with your child daily and record this in their reading record.