Wembdon St. George’s Planning Sheet
Theme: WWI
Term: Autumn 1 and 2 2014 - 2015
Class: 11
Year group: 5
Key Skills
Subject Skills
Questioning
Planning
Reasoning
Evaluation
Working
together
Creative
thinking skills
Communication
Speaking &
Listening
Improving own
learning and
performance
Recognise key
features of
different genres of
writing.
Recognise style of
MM. Be able to
describe strategies
used by MM and
begin to use them
in their own
writing.
How to use
vocabulary for
effect.
Reading
comprehension
skills and develop
extended writing
skills
Use spelling
strategies learnt
Handwriting
Literacy (reading comprehension focus)
 Active reading strategies, summarise and predict,
focus on language features. Focus on vocab
 Baseline assessment Sept 2014 – ‘The Rescue’.
 Author focus – Michael Morpurgo
 Begin to identify his style and key features of
narrative text.
 Speech punctuation – fortune lines; character and
emotions (Gentle Giant/Silver Swan)
 Target work – adjectives and adverbs
 Introduce class novel – War Horse
 Identify key features of narrative text and
narrative voice. Key vocab and glossary of words
linked to WWI. Reading detective roles and
inferential skills.
 Read and Respond – Chapters 2-4; how the
characters behave and why. How does MM create
tension? Link to PSHE family problems – money
and alcohol. Using drama to recreate part of the
story. Short diary write about how Albert feels
about his father’s treatment of the family.
 Reading Detective Roles – Summariser (Ch. 5-8)
 Read and Respond – p17/’Horse for Sale’ –
descriptive writing focus.
 Non chronological report writing – Animals in
War (Focus on horses-Term 1)
WWI poetry : to coincide with Remembrance
Day.
 Art – poppies for Remembrance Day Text.
 Continue with class novel -War Horse
 Read in sections – analysis of text. Focus on
vocabulary and stylistic features used.
 Playscript. Features of playscripts and changing
some of the text into a Playscript.
 Assessment week
 Weekly Spelling and phonics focus
Writing:
Extended writing: narrative, continuing a story, story
openers, short fiction story, Shakespeare playscriptsMacbeth. (young Shakespeare Company)
Resources: Stories by MM War Horse novel, War Horse
Read and respond. War Horse Playscript War Horse
special illustrated version by Rae Smith. Poems from the
First World War , The Little Hen and the Great War, The
Story of the First WW for children. Resources for
Learning individual and group reading books.
Newpapers.
Narrowing the Gap: Use of TA for regular reading and
comprehension, Guided Reading, Bug Club reading,
phonics and differentiated spelling groups. Use of scribe
and ICT as needed.
Numeracy
Number Sense
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Partition 5- /6-digit numbers in thousands, hundreds,
tens, units.
Say what each digit represents in 5- & 6-digit numbers.
Complete place value additions and subtractions
Add/subtract 1s, 10s, 1000s and 10,000s to/from 5-digit
numbers.
Compare 5-digit numbers using > and < signs.
Place 5-digit numbers on 0 to 100,000 landmarked lines
Understand the effect of multiplying and dividing by 10
and 100
Understand place value in decimal numbers with up to two
places.
Place numbers with two decimal places on a number line
empty between neighbouring wholes.
Compare and order numbers with one or two decimal
places
Place 4-digit numbers on a line and round to the nearest
10, 100 or 1000
Place 5-digit numbers on a line and round to the nearest 10, 100,
1000 or 10,000
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Mental Maths
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Add/subtract 0.1 and 0.01 to/from numbers with 2
decimal places.
Add and subtract multiples of 0.1 or 0.01 without
crossing multiples of 0.1 or 1.
Use place value to add and subtract.
Add and subtract near multiples.
Addition
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Use column addition to add any pair of 4-digit nos
Use column addition to add pairs of 5-digit numbers (5digit answers).
Use rounding to approximate answers.
Use column addition to add any pair of amounts of money,
e.g. £45.78 + £25.79
Use rounding to estimate totals of pairs of amounts of money
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Subtraction
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Find the change from £20, £50 and £10 using counting
Communication
Application of
number
Problem Solving
Reasoning
Enquiry
Evaluation
Mental Maths
Place Value
Addition
Subtraction
Multiplication
Division
Working with 2D and
3D Shape
Reading 24 hour
clock.
Measuring
Linking fractions with
division.
Drawing graphs
Problem solving
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up eg find the difference
Find the difference between 4-digit prices using counting
up
Use column subtraction (decomposition) to subtract pairs
of 4-digit numbers where one or two moves are
necessary
Use column subtraction (decomposition) to subtract 3digit numbers from 4-digit numbers
Use frog (counting up) to subtract pairs of 4-digit
numbers
Choose Frog or column subtraction to subtract pairs of
4-digit numbers
Use decomposition to subtract pairs of 5-digit numbers.
Subtract pairs of numbers with one decimal place by
counting up or counting back.
Count up to subtract pairs of numbers with two decimal
places.
Subtract pairs of numbers with one or two decimals
places and some pairs with a mixture.
Mental Multiplication and Division
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Find common multiples
Find factors of numbers to 50
Recognise that square numbers have an odd number of
factors
Decide whether to round up or down after division
depending on the context
Use rules of divisibility for 2, 3, 4, 5 and 9.
Find prime numbers to at least 50.
Use the grid method or chosen expanded method to
multiply 3-digit numbers by single-digit numbers
Make approximations
Use short multiplication to multiply 3-digit numbers by
single-digit numbers.
Use short multiplication to multiply 3-digit amounts of
money by single-digit numbers.
Division
Use the vertical layout of chunking or short division to
divide numbers, answers up to 40 eg 196 ÷ 6
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Round up or down after division according to the context.
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Use the vertical layout of chunking or short division to
divide numbers, answers up to 60.
Choose to divide using a written or mental method.
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Fractions
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Recognise equivalent fractions
Simplify fractions
Convert improper fractions to mixed numbers.
Compare and order fractions with related denominators
eg of 5/6, 2/3 and 7/12
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Add fractions with related denominators eg 2/3 + 1/6
Subtract fractions with related denominators eg ¾ – 3/8
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Find unit and non-unit fractions of amounts eg 1/7 of 196
Shape
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Use a range of mathematical vocabulary to describe 3D
shapes
Sort 3D shapes according to their properties using
Carroll diagrams
Visualise 3D shapes from 2D representational drawings
Describe properties of prisms and pyramids
Use a range of mathematical vocabulary to describe 2D
shapes
Find properties of polygons including parallel and
perpendicular sides
Know properties of different quadrilaterals
Geometry and Measures
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Convert between grams and kilograms, millilitres and
litres.
Convert between metres and kilometres.
Know approximate conversion between miles and km.
Know regularly used imperials units and approximate
metric equivalents.
Statistics
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Begin to draw line graph and read intermediate points.
Time
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Read timetables using the 24-hour clock.
Calculate time intervals using the 24-hour clock
Resources Mental Maths tests, Abacus Evolve, Jo Cronin
planning, PDrive tools and activities, Power of , Olympic
challenges and practical apparatus.
Narrowing the Gap use of TA Mental Maths Power of 1 and
Power of 2 Multiplication and division support and challenges.
Extra homework if needed to consolidate, small group work,
paired work, basic skills work
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Science (Living Things and their Habitats)
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Class 10 – recognising and exploring and
grouping animals/plants
Class 11 – Life cycles of amphibians, insects,
birds and plants.
Classes 12/13 – Classifying groups according to
characteristics, similarities, differences – microorganisms, plants and animals and give reasons
for classifying them.
Earth and Space (Yr 5)
 describe the movement of the Earth, and other
planets, relative to the Sun in the solar system
 describe the movement of the Moon relative to
the Earth
 describe the Sun, Earth and Moon as
approximately spherical bodies
 use the idea of the Earth’s rotation to explain day
Ideas and
evidence in
science
Planning
Obtaining and
presenting
evidence
Consider
evidence and
evaluate
1a 1b
2a 2b 2c 2d
2e 2f 2g 2h
2i 2j 2k 2l 2m
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and night and the apparent movement of the sun
across the sky
Religious Education
Term one
Why do some people believe that some places are
special?
Why do people go on pilgrimage and special
journeys?
What practices and events are associated with
pilgrimage and special journeys?
What artistic, symbolic and other expressive work
is associated with special journeys and places?
(e) How might we make a record of the impact on
ourselves of the journey we make and the places
we visit?
Term 2
Why was Jesus born in a poor stable far from
home?
Journey to Bethlehem
Journey of the Wise Men
Fleeing to Egypt
Life as a spiritual journey
Empathy with refugees and their situation
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History WW1-Centenary (2nd half of the term)
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Class text (War Game)
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Why/how WW1 started.
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Life in the trenches
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Battle of the Somme
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Christmas day/Truce
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Geography-(first half of the term)
Latitude, longitude, equator,
northern/southern hemisphere, tropic
cancer/Capricorn
Artic/Antarctic circle
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Communication
Speaking and
listening
ICT
Working with
others
Questioning
AT2 level 4
meaning and
purpose, values
and
commitments.
AT1 expressing
meaning.
Chronological
understanding
Knowledge,
understanding
of past events,
people, changes
in the past
Historical
interpretation
Historical
enquiry
Organisation
and
communication
1a 1b
Knowledge and
understanding
of places
Geographical
skills
2c
2a 2b 2c 2d
3a
4a 4b
5a 5b 5c
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GMT-day/night
Locate the world’s countries using maps to focus on
Europe.
Study environmental regions
Locate key physical and human characteristics.
Locate countries and major cities.
Art (cc-link to history – Autumn term 1 and 2)
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Sketching skills – movement in animals
(horses) See Rae Smith’s War Horse
illustrations.
Pencil and charcoal drawings linked to War
Horse (Rae Smith artist, illustrator and
designer of The National Theatre’s production
of War Horse and her illustrated book.)
Study of artist, illustrator and theatre set
designer, Rae Smith. Investigate Vorticism.
Poppies 1st half term (different mediums) –
drawing, painting, creating poppies, using wire
and tissue paper. Tower of London ceramic
poppies.
Bridgwater Arts centre Poppy exhibition.
Exploding shapes – C. R. W. Nevinson
(Bursting shell)
Imperial War Museum WWI postcard work,
enlarge and paint.
Memorial art work
Trench art work
First word war artists- John Nash, Percy
Winden
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2b
3a
4a, 4c
Developing,
planning,
communicating
ideas.
Working with
tools, equipment,
materials and
components to
make quality
products
1a 1b 1c 1d
Ginger Fig exhibition January – ‘Wish you
were here’ – collage, poetry, knit, A4 postcard
(lace) – 2nd half term
Design & Technology
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Exploring and
developing
ideas
Investigating
and making
Knowledge and
understanding
Evaluating
Send out food tasting letter at start of term to
last whole year.
Savoury dishes – potato/onion/egg (make a
dish for whole class to eat)
Understand a healthy and varied diet
Understand how ingredients are grown.
2a 2b 2c 2d 2e 2f
Evaluating
processes and
products
Knowledge and
understanding of
materials and
components
Creating and
developing
 Notation Year 5 – stave/manuscript paper/types of musical ideas
notes (minim, dotted minim, semibreve, crotchet, (composing)
quaver) – write simple rhythms in 2, 3 and 4 time Responding and
reviewing
 Year 6 – as year 5 plus names of notes on stave
(appraising)
and write/play tunes
Listening and
 Musical terminology – crescendo, dimuendo,
applying
legato, staccato, piano, forte (year 5)
knowledge and
 Year 6 – rallentando,
understanding
nd
2 term – Christmas music, songs from WW1
Music (theory of music)
P.E.
 Gymnastics (M Holmes)
 Invasion games
 S.E.A.L ( New Beginnings)
To revise roles in group work and discussions. To set
high standards of work and behaviour. I/Groups/Whole
class to establish a classroom contract. Set class target.
What makes a perfect year five pupil?
 I know some of the things that help us in school
to learn and play well together
 I understand my rights and responsibilities in
school. To be able to understand rules in school
and society.
 To explore how to change things.
 How do we feel when we are new and at the
beginning of something?
Acquiring and
developing
skills
Selecting and
applying skills,
tactics,
compositional
ideas
Evaluating,
improving
performance
Knowledge and
understanding
of fitness and
health
Developing
confidence and
responsibility
Preparing to
play an active
role as citizens
Developing
good
relationships
and respecting
differences
between people
3a
4b
1a 1c
2a 2b
3b 3c
4a 4b 4c
1a 1b
2a 2b 2c
3a 3b
4a 4b 4c 4d
1a 1b 1c
2c 2f
4a 4b 4c 4f 4g
4h
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To explore calming strategies. I know how to
make others feel valued and welcomed. I know
that I am valued at school. I understand how it
feels to start something new.
 I can explain how I go about solving a problem
and I can give an example of a problem I have
solved. I can work well in a group.
Autumn 2
 Relationships
 I can tell you about people who are important to
me. I am aware that there are different types of
relationships and I can develop skills to be
effective in relationships.
 I can tell you about a time when I felt
embarrassed. Physical and emotional effects. I
can learn something new about me.
 I know some things to do when I feel embarrassed
that will not make things worse.
 I can use a problem-solving approach to sort out
an embarrassing situation.
 I know how to make people feel good about
themselves. I can recognise when I am using a
put-down.
 I can recognise stereotyping. I can try to challenge
stereotypes.
Finding things
Computing
out
Developing
 What’s safe on the internet-e safety.
ideas and
 Cyber bullying
making things
 Use of internet for research.
happen
Review, modify
and evaluate
work as it
progresses
French
A1 Catherine Cheater – see year 3 lesson plans on ‘P’
drive. Greetings Numbers Colours Classroom
Phrases.
A2 Christmas Greetings Objects Numbers Colours
1a 1b 1c
2a 2b 2c
4a 4b 4c