Year 5

STEAM

This term our STEAM focus is performing arts.

We will create an art gallery honouring each child’s culture and ancestors inspired by Central American artists/artwork and create a recording of children performing a piece of music inspired by the festival Día de los Muertos.

Throughout our learning journey we will:

• Explore what Día de los Muertos is and where it is celebrated
• Compare the geographical features of Central American countries
• Explore and learn a Central American song
• Compose a musical sequence to accompany our chosen song
• Explore a range of artwork associated with Día de los Muertos
• Explore Frida Kahlo’s artwork and symbolism
• Create our own artwork inspired by the examples we have seen

Maths

Our topics this half term will be:

• Linking fractions, decimals & percentages
• Converting units
• Properties of shapes, including angles
• Transformations

Writing

Our first unit this term will be a narrative, based on The Explorer by Katherine Rundell. We will be re-writing sections of the story focussed on dialogue in our first unit and then biographies based on Frida Kahlo in our final unit of the term.

Reading

Our reading unit this term will be based on the text Five Children and It.

Computing

This term, we will be focusing on programming – using selection in quizzes.

With Scratch, we will:

• identify and modify conditions in a program
• identify the condition and outcomes in an if…then…else statement
• use selection in an infinite loop to check a condition
• implement my algorithm to create the first section of my program

HRE

(Health and Relationships)

In HRE we will be learning:

• about some of the different ways information and data is shared and used online, including for commercial purposes
• rules surrounding distribution of images
• different ways to keep track of money
• to recognise that people have different attitudes towards saving and spending money; what influences people’s decisions; what makes something ‘good value for money’
• about stereotypes in the workplace and that a person’s career aspirations should not be limited by them 
• about key figures who have persevered in their pursuit of a goal, who have changed careers multiple times, who have found success at different stages of life

Music

As part of our STEAM unit, we will create a recording of children performing a piece of music inspired by the festival Día de los Muertos.

We will:

• Talk about musical characteristics that give a song its style
• Talk about a song’s lyrics and its historical context
• Know and be able to talk about how pulse, rhythm, pitch, tempo, dynamics, texture and structure work together and how they connect in a song 
• Know and be able to talk about different ways of writing music down – e.g. staff notation, symbols
• Know and be able to talk about the notes C, D, E, F, G, A, B + C on the treble stave
• Play a musical instrument with the correct technique
• Select, learn, rehearse and perform an instrumental part

We will also continue our work on the cello and violin with the OCMS on a Wednesday afternoon.  

PE

Dance:

• I can apply dynamics to movements with consistency.
• I can understand canon and unison.
• I can link movements together to create short sequences.
• I can work well with others to practice and rehearse.
• I can perform dances with increasing duration and complexity.

MFL – French

This term our focus is holidays and hobbies.

We will:

• Read, listen and respond to vocabulary  
• Present to an audience
• Ask/answer questions (in short phrases)
• Express an opinion

RE

In RE, Year 5 will continue to explore different religions beliefs about relationships and marriage.

They will focus on:

•  Hindu beliefs about relationships and marriage
• Sikh beliefs about relationships and marriage
• Humanist beliefs about relationships and marriage