Cinnamon Brow CE Primary School

In KS2 we follow a programme called Reciprocal Reading. This is an activity that takes the form of a dialogue between teachers and children as they read as a whole class or in groups. A reciprocal approach provides our children with four specific reading strategies: Questioning, Clarifying, Summarizing, and Predicting. When you listen to your children read, we encourage you to discuss the story lines, plot, characters and the meaning of unfamiliar words.

Reading Homework: we expect daily reading at home. We ask that at least three reads are from the teacher directed ‘book banded’ book and two are from an online reading program (Reading Plus or Reading Eggspress). ALL reads should be recorded in the yellow reading record books to allow staff to keep a record and celebrate success at the end of each term. 

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n Years 5 and 6, we are teaching for mastery in our maths lessons. Through carefully planned teaching and the support of a 'Power Maths' scheme we enable all children to access the maths curriculum at their level and open up opportunities for all children to work within a mastery approach.  

The children also have access to TTrockstars, My Maths and Numbots to support their Maths progression through app and online resources.  

This autumn term we will focus on the following topics: 

Year 5 

• Fractions 

• Decimals 

• Percentages 

• Perimeter and area 

• Graphs and tables 

Year 6 

• Fractions 

• Ratio and proportions 

• Algebra 

• Decimals 

• Percentages 

• Perimeter and area 

Maths Homework:  In UKS2 we ask that you continue to support us with multiplication knowledge by using TTRockstars on a daily basis. We recommend 10 minutes each day. 

Animals including humans 

The children will learn to: 

• Identify and name the main parts of the human circulatory system, and describe the functions of the heart, blood vessels and blood. 

• Recognise the impact of diet, exercise, drugs and lifestyle on the way their bodies function 

• Describe the ways in which nutrients and water are transported within animals, including humans. 

Properties and changes of materials 

The children will learn to: 

• compare and group together everyday materials on the basis of their properties, including their hardness, solubility, transparency, conductivity (electrical and thermal), and response to magnets  

• know that some materials will dissolve in liquid to form a solution, and describe how to recover a substance from a solution  

• use knowledge of solids, liquids and gases to decide how mixtures might be separated, including through filtering, sieving and evaporating

How was Britain revolutionised? 

 Here are some of the questions we will explore: 

-How was the North-West of England revolutionised? 

-What was life like in a town during the Industrial Revolution? 

-Why did so many people die in the slum houses? 

-Could the quality of life of the British people have been improved? 

The children will learn to: 

-extend chronological knowledge beyond 1066  

-identify what the industrial revolution was  

-identify  importance of transport and how this developed during the Industrial Revolution – rivers, canals, rail  

-identify the social and economic impact of the industrial revolution in Britain 

What makes the Earth angry? 

Here are some of the questions we will explore: 

• What would the Earth look like if we sliced through it? 

• What is each part of a volcano and what happens during an eruption? 

• What causes an earthquake? 

• Where do most natural disasters occur and why? 

The children will learn to: 

• describe and understand key aspects of physical geography, including: mountains, volcanoes and earthquakes 

• locate the world’s countries, using maps to focus on Europe (including the location of Russia) and North and South America, concentrating on their environmental regions, key physical and human characteristics, countries, and major cities 

• use maps, atlases, globes and digital/computer mapping to locate countries and describe features studied

As a Church of England School, Religious Education is a core subject and alongside collective worship is a very important part of school life. RE & worship takes place throughout the school day with daily prayers, whole school and class worship and the sharing of our Christian values.                          

This term the focus taken from the Diocese scheme of work is: 

Why is the Exodus such a significant event in Jewish and Christian history?  

• Why did God choose Moses?  

• Why is the Exodus such a significant event in Jewish and Christian history?  

• What is freedom?  

• Why is freedom important?  

• What does it mean to be free?  

• Why is it important to remember?  

Who was Jesus? Who is Jesus? 

• Who was Jesus?  

• Who is Jesus?  

• Who did Jesus say he was?  

• Was Jesus the Messiah?  

ART:

Exploring a selection of paintings through art appreciation activities. Collecting ideas in sketchbooks and planning for a final piece after researching the life, techniques and artistic intentions of an artist that interests them. 

DT:

This cooking and nutrition unit includes opportunities for children to learn a simple bolognaise recipe and adapt it to improve nutritional content.  

Listening and appraising a range of music genres, fluency, control and expression, develop an understanding of the history of music, call & response, singing in round and harmony, timbre.

In this unit, pupils develop their knowledge of ‘selection’ by revisiting how ‘conditions’ can be used in programming, and then learning how the ‘if… then… else...’ structure can be used to select different outcomes depending on whether a condition is ‘true’ or ‘false’. They represent this understanding in algorithms, and then by constructing programs using the Scratch programming environment. They learn how to write programs that ask questions and use selection to control the outcomes based on the answers given. They use this knowledge to design a quiz in response to a given task and implement it as a program. 

Healthy eating  

Foods  

The verb ‘to be’ 

Clothing, colours and fashion shows 

Carnival clowns and clothes 

The children will be exploring the importance of others and how to love them well.

• Too much selfie isn’t healthy 
• Don’t hold on to what’s wrong