High Spen Primary School
English Medium Term Planning
Class TY Year 5/6
Summer Term – 1st half
Wk
Context
Spelling / Phonics
Speaking and
listening
Speaking & listening
assessment
1
2
Debate in small groups.
Follow-up piece
Discussion
SATs revision
SPAG issues
See spelling plan – spelling
revision.
3
4
SATs revision
SPAG issues
SATs week
Optional SATs
week
Chn read their own and each
other’s work evaluating it for
effectiveness. Does it work?
Revision issues:

Word families – revise nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, words
that can be more than 1 type (eg: walk, rose)

Verbs – identifying and converting between past / present;
subject/verb agreement / grammatically correct sentences

Nouns - abstract nouns, Proper nouns, pronouns, plural nouns
including irregular

Use of I/me

‘an’ versus ‘a’

MC/SC/phrase
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Antonyms (opposites)

Suffixes for words
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Apostrophes – revisit
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Direct speech / reported speech

Ms Simpson: Punctuation – commas to separate a list of
adjectives, separating two given ideas into two sentences using
full stops, brackets, all sentences must end with punctuation,
what are statements? Making punctuation / capital letters
VERY clear.
Writing
Follow-up assessment
Chn write a full discussion.
Assessed piece – report /
information page about a real/
imagined animal which is
special/ unique.
Assessed piece – short
description of favourite meal
Assessed piece – diary entry of
the worst day at school (linked
to test week/ Victorian school
life).
No spelling focus
5
Reading
Cross-curricular
links
Real life – issues linked to
school: should children have
homework? Should chn be able
to leave school at 14? Should
girls and boys be taught
separately?