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. 

In Years 5 and 6, we are teaching for mastery in our maths lessons. Through carefully planned teaching and the support of Oak Academy, which is underpinned by the NCETM, 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 spring term we will focus on the following topics: 

Mathematics 

In Years 5 and 6, we are teaching for mastery in our maths lessons. Through carefully planned teaching and the support of Oak Academy 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 spring term we will focus on the following topics: 

Year 5 

• Multiplication  

• Division 

• Area 

• Calculating with decimal fractions 

Year 6 

• Fractions 

• Ratio and proportions 

• Algebra 

• Decimals 

• Percentages 

• Perimeter and area 

Evolution and inheritance 

The children will learn to: 

• recognise that living things have changed over time and that fossils provide information about living things that inhabited the Earth millions of years ago 

• recognise that living things produce offspring of the same kind, but normally offspring vary and are not identical to their parents  

• identify how animals and plants are adapted to suit their environment in different ways and that adaptation may lead to evolution. 

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  

Geography

Continue learning about our class cities (started during the Autumn term) 

Why does the Amazon matter? 

Here are some of the questions we will explore: 

• What are rainforests and where are they located? 

• What are the features of the Amazon rainforest? 

• What foods are found in tropical rainforests? 

• Who lives in the Amazon rainforest? 

• What is the future of the Amazon rainforest? 

• What is the coastline like in the UK? 

• What causes coastal erosion? 

The children will learn to: 

• describe and understand key aspects of physical geography, including: climate zones, biomes and vegetation belts, rivers and the water cycle 

• 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?  

Gymnastics: Flight 

Football 

Dance 

Hockey 

PE will take place on the following day: WEDNESDAY

On their PE day, children should come to school dressed for PE with appropriate outdoor PE kit.  Please refer to the school website for PE kit details:  Cinnamon Brow CE Primary School - Uniform

On their PE day, children should come to school dressed for PE with appropriate outdoor PE kit.  

Please refer to the school prospectus for PE kit details:  School prospectus 

Painting and mixed media: an artist study

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.

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Textiles: making a bag 

Research how patterns are used to make fabric items, design a bag and create a prototype. 

Exploring percussion. 

• play and perform in solo and ensemble contexts, using their voices and playing musical instruments with increasing accuracy, fluency, control and expression  

• improvise and compose music for a range of purposes using the inter-related dimensions of music  

• listen with attention to detail and recall sounds with increasing aural memory 

Selection in quizzes

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 implem

Our behaviour curriculum is centred around our Heartsmart values, and we explicitly teach the children a new Heartsmart value, alongside linked behaviours, each half term. Heartsmart means being smart with our hearts. The life of our heart affects the whole of our life. Loving yourself and others is the most powerful way to live and it’s the best way to create true friendship. We become powerful when we love ourselves and when we love others.  

Our Heartsmart values, and linked behaviours, this half term are:

Too much selfie isn’t healthy

Don’t hold on to what’s wrong