YEAR 5
LITERACY: We will be reading the epic poem, ‘The Highwayman’ this half term.
Pupils will analyse it for language feature and poetic devices. They will write
their own verse in the style of Alfred Noyce and then write an autobiography
from the point of view of one of the main characters in this narrative poem.
NUMERACY: Finding unknown numbers and working with primes, factors and
multiples will open the half term. Venn and Carroll diagrams will follow together
with sorting numbers according to different criteria. Multiplication and division
will be studied together with embedding long methods for addition, subtraction
and multiplication.
SCIENCE: The life cycle of plants and animals will be our focus this term. We
will start growing some seeds and water them at regular intervals hoping to see
something grow. We will sketch, colour in and label the parts of plants and be
able to name them and describe what each part does. We will then look at some
animal life cycles.
TOPIC: The Vikings is our topic this half term and we will be continuing from
the Anglo Saxons learnt about last half term. Where did the Vikings come from,
where did they land in Britain, what is their legacy?
ICT: Pupils will be studying sensors for recording light and temperature this
half term. They will decide on their own area of study and present it in either
excel or publisher.
Pupils will also be taught Music, French and PE each week. RE will take place as
an RE Day towards the end of the half term.
Some useful websites:
Literacy - http://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/ks2/english/
Numeracy - http://www.crickweb.co.uk/ks2numeracy.html
Vikings http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/primaryhistory/vikings/
http://resources.woodlandsjunior.kent.sch.uk/homework/vikingsax.html
Check on our school website for a fun Viking activity for the children to do, it
will keep them occupied for ages!
TAKE AWAY TASK
SPRING 2
2014
As we will be focusing on a long narrative poem for our Literacy work, I would like you to do
some research and find a short (not longer than 3 verses) poem that you like about spring
and/or Easter. Once you have found it, I would like you to learn it off by heart so that you
can recite it to the rest of the class in the week before Easter.
Don’t panic! This is a fun activity, there are loads and loads of poems that are suitable for
reciting: funny ones, sad ones, ones that rhyme, ones that don’t etc.
So, have some fun and get searching! It would be a good idea to recite your chosen poem
to your parents/guardians/friends prior to your ‘performance’ in class.
There are books in the school library you could use and, of course, there are lots of poems
online. Some useful websites are:
http://www.poems-jokes-songs-for-kids.com/easter-poems-for-kids.html
http://www.apples4theteacher.com/holidays/easter-religious/kids-poems/
http://www.dltk-holidays.com/Easter/poetry/index.htm
http://www.mywordwizard.com/short-easter-poem.html
Or…you could even create your own short Easter/Spring poem!
24th February, you have five weeks to complete this task.