Emmer Green Primary School
workshop
Termly Curriculum Overview
English
 Poetry – The Highwayman
 Persuasive Writing
 Debating
 Non-fiction - leaflets
 Drama – Shakespeare
 Grammar: word classes, clauses,
punctuation, vocabulary and spelling
 Sentence and whole text work: cohesion,
tense, paragraphing
You can help your child at home by:
 Regular reading, learning weekly spellings
and completing weekly reading
comprehensions
 punctuation “ “, :, :, … ( ), -
 http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/ks2bitesize/en
glish
 http://www.primaryhomeworkhelp.co.uk/
Science
Changing Materials
 To know that air has weight and is all
around us
 To know that gases are different from
liquids and solids in terms of how they
maintain their shape and volume
 To identify reversible and irreversible
changes
Animals and Human Reproduction: including how
babies are made and born.
Year 5 music
performance to
parents
Wednesday 23rd May
Year 5 Summer 2018
Topic—History / Geography
Mathematics
Local Study- Reading
 Historical industries – The 3 B’s –
 Read Roman numerals to 1000; recognise
Bulbs, Beer and Biscuits
years written in Roman numerals
 Order a set of positive and negative
 Infamous resident Annie Dyer
 Reading Coat of Arms
integers, including decimals
 Maps of Reading – plotting co-
 Add and subtract larger numbers
ordinates
mentally and use rounding to check
 Change in land use – Oracle
 Multiply and divide numbers of Th H T U
 Reading Football Club
x T U and Th H T U ÷ T U
 Problem solving and applying written  The River Thames
methods for all four operations  Reading – the future
 Revise prime, composite, squared and
cubed numbers and use prime factors Useful Websites:
 Solve problems involving fractions, http://www.livingreading.co.uk
decimals and percentages www.readingmuseum.org.uk/
 Convert between units of measurement
 Distinguish between regular and irregular
polygons
 Geometry – properties of shapes, angles,
position and direction
 Statistics – interpreting graphs
 Solve mathematical problems and puzzles
Look out for
the Reading
You can help your child by:
trip later in
Learning times tables to 12 x 12 and
the summer
encouraging the use of Mathletics
term!
Useful Websites:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/ks2bitesize/maths/
http://www.primaryhomeworkhelp.co.uk/

Computing
 Using laptops to research safely on the
internet
 ‘We are researchers’ - researching
the internet and developing awareness
about internet safety and Google search
results
 “We are artists’ – using Inkscape,
Scratch and Terragen to create
patterns and virtual worlds
Art
.
 Art skills – animals and humans
 Looking at original and 21st century
designs, to design and making own
biscuit box to house original recipe
‘Huntley and Palmer’ biscuits
 Reading’s architecture
 Colourwork
Design Technology
 Designing and constructing Huntley and
Palmer biscuit boxes
Emmer Green Primary School
Termly Curriculum Overview
Year 5 Summer 2018 Personal Social and Health Education
Relationships
Religious Education  Feelings and problem solving
 Challenging stereotypes, including
gender sterotyping
Devotion (Islam)
Changes
 Explore the Five Pillars of Islam
 Re-visit puberty and the emotional and
 Dress conventions
physical changes that occur in both
 Dietary regulations
boys and girls, including menstruation.
 How young Muslims learn about these.
For more information, visit our
website for the SE Policy and
Curriculum or see your child’s
teacher.
Physical Education Modern Foreign Language (French)
Striking and Fielding Games Scène de plage (Beach scene)
 Rounders and Cricket  Recognise and use key vocabulary
relating to our topic ‘Beach Scene’
Athletics  Use adjectives to add interest and
detail to description.
Hall:
Gymnastics
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