--- title: "Year 5" url: "https://wallace-fields-junior-school.schudio.com/learning/new-to-english/year-5" school: "Wallace Fields Junior School" --- # Year 5 ## Spring For Spring here are the key topics that Year 5 will study and some useful inks. Click on the red web address for more information on the topics. ### **Maths** - **Multiplication & Division** - **** - - **Fractions, Decimals, Percentages** **** ### **English** - **Grammar, punctuation & spellings ** - **Persuasive Text** - **** - **** - **Poetry (Performance)** - **** - - **Journalistic Writing** **** ### **Science** - **Materials and their properties [https://www.google.com/url?client=internal-element-cse&cx=partner-pub-2806779683782082:1266813909&q=https://www.science-sparks.com/ideas-learning-materials-properties/&sa=U&ved=2ahUKEwiE2IXR7r6DAxXmTqQEHSAJCxwQFnoECAMQAg&usg=AOvVaw1r1viwLMqdmXQt8RTlaCpX](https://www.science-sparks.com/ideas-learning-materials-properties/)** - **States of Matter ** - **Rocks ** ### **French** - **Clothes ** - **French fashion vocabulary, fashion show and clothes mini book (or Drama about clothes) ** - **Positioning and agreement of adjectives ** ### **Art** - **Acrylic ** - **Paint ** - **Van Gogh-Sunflowers** - **[Who is Vincent van Gogh? \| Tate Kids](https://www.tate.org.uk/kids/explore/who-is/who-vincent-van-gogh)** - **** ### **Music** - **Continue Ukulele study** - **Reading and playing along using TAB notation** - **Aural skills – linked to pitch and internalising short melodic phrases to play back** - **Improvisation – “picking” simple melodies ** - **Focus on all the 8 musical elements with related listening examples** - **History of Western Music - overview with listening focus ** ### **Faith & Philosophy** - **Christianity** - **** - **** - **Judaism** - **** - **** ### **History** - **Ancient Maya** - **** - **** - **** - **** - **** - **** - **** - **** ### **Life Lessons /P.S.H.E.** - **Risks ** - **Feelings and relationships ** - **Birth, life & death** - **Healthy eating ** ### **Physical Education** - **Swimming - National curriculum award grades (selected children only) ** - **Gym – Shape and balance** - **Mindful movements** - **Tag rugby ** - **Hockey ** ### **Design Technology** **Food Technology – cookie and biscuit making ** ### **Computing** - **Coding** - **** - **** - **Systems ** ## Summer For Summer here are the key topics that Year 5 will study and some useful inks. Click on the red web address for more information on the topics. Maths - Mass, volume and capacity - Angles - Decimals - Polygons English - Sentence, grammar and punctuation work - Reports including blog posts - Writing letters, persuasive writing, diaries - - Science - Light - travelling from sources / passing light through materials / reflected light - Sound – caused by vibrations - Ourselves Geography - Settlements History - Ancient civilisations - Shang Dynasty French - Places in towns (libraries, post office, cinema, etc.) - Places in France (boulangeries, etc), to say what’s in your town - Creating a poster about Epsom and give simple instructions Art - Mask making Music - Continuing ukulele study and reading music written in TAB - Singing and playing the ukulele simultaneously - Listening focus - comparing and contrasting examples focusing on the 8 musical elements - Pentatonic improvision and composition on Glockenspiels - Scales with a focus on the pentatonic scale - Recording compositions using standard written musical notation on a stave - Using software to compose pentatonic melodies Faith & Philosophy - Islam: Thematic unit /journey Life Lessons /P.S.H.E. - Relationships - Puberty - Drugs and alcohol - - https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/guides/zstpsk7/revision/1 Physical Education - Cricket - Rounders - Athletics - Tennis Design Technology - Alarm systems Computing - Blogging - Prezi - Podcast ## Autumn Here are the key topics that Year 5 studied in Autumn and some useful inks. Click on the red web address for more information on the topics. ### Maths - Secure place value to 1,000,000 - Use standard written methods for all four operations - Confidently add and subtract mentally - Use square and cube numbers - Addition and subtraction with numbers with up to 7 digits, including fluency and reasoning activities involving these numbers - Use vocabulary of prime, factor and multiple - Multiply and divide by powers of ten ### Reading - Apply knowledge of morphology and etymology when reading new words [http://tabethadawkins.weebly.com/morphology-and-etymology](http://tabethadawkins.weebly.com/morphology-and-etymology.html#:~:text=Morphology%20and%20Etymology%20involve%20looking,the%20meaning%20of%20unfamiliar%20words.&text=Etymology%20is%20the%20study%20of%20the%20origins%20of%20words.) - Reading and discuss a broad range of genres and texts - Identifying and discussing themes - Make recommendations to others - Learn poetry by heart - - - Draw inference and make predictions - Discuss authors’ use of language - Retrieve and present information from non-fiction texts - Formal presentations and debates ### Writing - Secure spelling, including homophones, prefixes, silent letters, etc. - - - - Legible, fluent handwriting - Plan writing to suit audience and purpose - Perform own compositions - Develop character, setting and atmosphere in narrative - Use organisational and presentational features - Use consistent appropriate tense - Proof-reading - Balanced argument/debate writing ### Grammar - Use expanded noun phrases - Use relative clauses - Adverbial phrases - Use commas for clauses - Use brackets, dashes and commas for parenthesis - - - - ### Art and design technology - Sketching - Sewing - Shelters - Pastels - Charcoal ### Faith and Philosophy - Christianity - - **Life Lessons /P.S.H.E** - Identity - Safety - First Aid - Friendships [https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/z6mj47h](https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zffd96f/articles/zpqd4xs) - Prejudice and stereotypes - Bullying - - ### P.E. - Dance - Rock and Roll - Fitness training - Football - Rugby ### Computing - Cryptography - Photo editing ### Science - Plants ### Geography - Rivers - - ### History - Ancient Maya - - - - - - - - ### French - Learning parts of the body (Monster theme) - Expressing opinions about school subjects (negatives, using appropriate conjunctions) ### Music - Identifying time signatures - Understanding specific musical concepts such as canon and polyrhythms - Reading, performing and notating rhythms - Instrument study: introduction to Ukulele - Start to read Ukulele chords from TAB - Christmas songs - working towards a performance ![Wallace Fields Junior School](https://files.schudio.com/wallace-fields-junior-school/images/logo/logo-2(1).png) **Wallace Fields Junior School** Dorling Drive Ewell Epsom, Surrey, KT17 3BH Tel: 020 8393 0350 Email: © Copyright 2017–2026 Wallace Fields Junior School School & Trust Websites by [ ![Schudio logo](https://wallace-fields-junior-school.schudio.com/img/logo/light.png) ](https://www.schudio.com/)