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 Y5, 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 term, across the key stage, we will continue to learn about:

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. 

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: 

How and why do Christians read the Bible?  

• How and why is the Bible read and used by Christians?
  Do you need a Bible to be a Christian? 
  Why do Christians believe that the Bible is holy? 
  Why is the Bible a best seller? 
  Why are there so many versions of the Bible? 
  Which books of the Bible do you think are the most important? Why? 
  Why are sacred texts so important to people of faith? 
  In what ways do the contents of the sacred texts impact upon the lives of the believers? 
  What is the connection between the ways in which the Holy Book is treated and how the believer regards the contents of the book? 

Christmas: the gospels of Matthew and Luke​ 

• Where in the Bible is the Christmas story? 
  How does the nativity story/birth of Jesus fit into God’s Big Story? 
  Why are the stories in Matthew and Luke similar/different? 
  How do our celebrations reflect the true meaning of Christmas? 
  Where do the ideas of including a donkey and a stable in the story come from?

Why did the Anglo Saxons settle and what impact did they have? 

 Here are some of the questions we will explore: 

• Why was Britain abandoned by the Romans and why did the Scots and Anglo-Saxons come?   

• What was life like for the Anglo-Saxons?     

• What was buried at Sutton Hoo and what does this teach us?   

• How did religion change?  

Why do people trade? 

Here are some of the questions we will explore: 

• What do we trade and where does it come from?   

• How are products imported and exported?   

• What is the global supply chain?   

• What is Fair Trade and why is it important?  

Real Gym

Real PE Health and Fitness

Athletics /Fitness circuits

Real PE Personal

Striking And Fielding

PE will take place on the following day: 

Canberra – Tuesday

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 

Drawing: I need space 

 This unit focuses on understanding retrofuturism, developing skills in evaluating images and creating art through various drawing processes, including collagraph printmaking. It emphasises the development of pupils' independent artistic skills and their ability to generate, test, and refine ideas in their sketchbooks, leading to a final piece of artwork.  

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Electrical systems: doodlers 

 Explore simple electrical components and use these to create a functional Doodler that creates scribbles on paper with or without a switch.

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 

Communication 

 In this unit, the class will learn about the World Wide Web as a communication tool. First, they will learn how we find information on the World Wide Web, through learning how search engines work (including how they select and rank results) and what influences searching, and through comparing different search engines. They will then investigate different methods of communication, before focusing on internet-based communication. Finally, they will evaluate which methods of internet communication to use for particular purposes. 

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