Year 5 - Our Learning
Science
This Term, we will learn about:
Living Things and Their Habitats
1. Classifying Conundrums
To give reasons for classifying plants and animals based on specific characteristics in the context of sorting and grouping animals for a zoo.
2. Linnaean System
To describe how living things are classified into broad groups according to common observable characteristics and based on similarities and differences, including micro-organisms, plants and animals by finding out about the Linnaean System of classification.
3. Curious Creatures
*To describe how living things are classified into broad groups according to common observable characteristics and based on similarities and differences, including micro-organisms, plants and animals by identifying the characteristics of mammals, birds, insects, reptiles, amphibians, fish, arachnids, annelids, crustaceans, echinoderms and molluscs.
*To give reasons for classifying plants and animals based on specific characteristics by exploring unusual creatures and designing their own curious creature.
4. Microorganisms
To describe how living things are classified into broad groups according to common observable characteristics and based on similarities and differences, including microorganisms, plants and animals by exploring helpful and harmful micro-organisms.
5. More about Microorganisms
To describe how living things are classified into broad groups according to common observable characteristics and based on similarities and differences, including microorganisms, plants and animals I can identify the characteristics of different types of micro-organisms.
6. Field Guide
*To describe how living things are classified into broad groups according to common observable characteristics and based on similarities and differences, including microorganisms, plants and animals by grouping organisms found in the local habitat.
*To give reasons for classifying plants and animals based on specific characteristics by creating a field guide to the organisms found in the local habitat.
Vocabulary:
classify, compare, Linnaean, domain, kingdom, phylum, class, order, family
genus, species, organism, flowering, vertebrates, bacteria, fungus, mould
We will be linking in our English work when we write our own reports about our investigations.
We are also looking forward to carrying out plenty of work during British Science week in March- exciting times ahead!
History and Geography
TRADE & ECONOMICS
1. What Do We Trade?
To describe and understand key aspects of human geography,
including: types of settlement and land use, economic activity
including trade links, and the distribution of natural resources
including energy, food, minerals and water in the context of UK
imports and exports.
2. Who Do We Trade With?
To 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 in the context of UK imports and exports.
To use maps, atlases, globes and digital/computer mapping to
locate countries and describe features studied in the context
of UK trade links.
3. Trading with El Salvador
To understand geographical similarities and differences
through the study of human and physical geography of a
region of the United Kingdom, a region in a European country,
and a region within North or South America in the context of
exports from El Salvador.
REPEATED for next 3 lessons in different contexts
To describe and understand key aspects of human geography,
including: types of settlement and land use, economic activity
including trade links, and the distribution of natural resources
including energy, food, minerals and water…
4. Fair Trade
in the context of fair trade.
5. The Global Economy
in the context of the global supply chain.
6. How Has Trading Changed?
in the context of changing trade links.
Additional Learning
COUNTIRES AND CONTINENTS Revision (Plan Bee)
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1- The Seven Continents 2-Locating Countries 3-Geographical Features 4-Capital Cities (LESSONS 5 & 6 WILL BE COVERED IN SUMMER WITH AMERICAS TOPIC)
Vocabulary: settlement, economic activity, trade link, distribution, minerals, import, export, region, characteristics, fair trade, global economy continent, country, population, hemisphere, equator, prime/central/ Greenwich meridian, latitude, longitude, tropics
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English
In English we will be looking at composition and application of skills in order to write engaging and high level fiction, non-fiction and poetry and linking this to the World Wars, a rich Topic of study for this term.
We will be reading a range of fiction and non-fiction texts an inspiration and reference for our learning, along with a variety of other text types. We will practise our comprehension and inference skills required for this year and looking towards Year 6.
Maths
Our learning in Maths this term will be focused on using our skills in calculation to learn at greater depth across the strands of the Curriculum.
Every day we will train our brains to be better at mental maths by doing lots of mental-oral work. Maths will be focused around the three skills of arithmetic fluency, reasoning and problem solving. We aim to provide children opportunities to deepen their learning as well as learn calculation skills. Pivotal to this is our times tables knowledge. Please help us to recall our times tables quickly as well as counting. We are beginning Year 5 with understanding number and place value.