PISC Syllabi for the Academic Year 2017-18
Class Year 5
Second term
ENGLISH / 1. Unit 1. There’s a lesson in that2. Unit 2. Exploring space
3. Unit 3. Reflections
4. Unit 4. Myths and legends forever
5. Unit 5. Tell me how
6. Unit 6. A different type of story
7. Unit 7. A box of delights
8. Unit 8. Share your views
9. Unit 9. Let’s perform Spelling Activities
a) Unusual plurals;
b) More word roots
c) Noun or verb
d) More spelling rules for the suffix –ing
e) Choose the right synonym
f) I before e
g) Toolkit:
h) Parts of speech
i) Review, edit and revise
j) Golden rules of speech making
k) The writing process
l) Reading strategies
m) Researching information
MATHS / 1. Geometry
Shapes and geometric reasoning, Position and movement
2. Handling Data
Organizing, categorizing and representing data, Probability
SCIENCE / 1) Unit 4: Sound
Book 4
a) How sound travels – sound needs a medium.
b) Muffling sounds.
c) Loud and soft sounds, high and low sounds.
d) Pitch and volume in musical instruments.
2) Unit 5: Electricity Book 4
a) Electricity flows in a circuit; components, switches.
b) Circuit and buzzers, mains electricity.
3) Unit 4: The way we see things
a) Light travels from a source. How we see things.
b) Mirrors, properties and uses of mirrors.
c) Reflection and which surfaces reflect light the best?
4) Unit 5: shadows
a) Light travels in a straight line. Opaque, transparent and translucent.
b) What affects the size of the shadow?
c) Investigating shadow length.
d) Measuring light intensity and rainbow.
5) Unit 6: Earth's movement
a) Does the Sun move? The Earth rotates on its axis.
b) Formation of day and night.
c) The Earth revolves around the Sun. Formation of seasons.
d) Exploring the solar system.
e) Exploring the stars.
ART / – Die Cutting: interesting subjects like animals, robots, and many others.
Second term
5 – Clay Modelling
6 – Magic Trick
7 – Science Fun-filled Experiment
8 – Recycled Material Project: CDc, waste paper and many other things from the recycle bin.
The syllabus develops from class to class keeping the same categories but becoming more advanced as the class advances forward.
URDU / آ اردو 5، پنجاب ٹيكسٹ بك 5، سمسٹر 2
12 – سارس اور لومڑى (نظم)
13 – نيكى كا بدلہ
14 – سكاؤٹنگ
15 – صبح كى آمد (نظم)
16 – خادمِ خلق
17 – حوالدار لالك جان شہيد
18 – پيشے
19 – ہمارے رسم ورواج
20 – برخوردار (نظم)
21 - فرہنگ
ARABIC / d) Lesson 11: In the Jungle
e) Lesson 12: Do you know me?
f) Lesson 13: Hazim’s family
g) Lesson 14: The Spaceman”
h) Lesson 15: The circus
i) Lesson 16: Opposites
j) Lesson 17: Bassem’s family
k) Lesson 18: “Freedom”
l) Lesson 19: “In the Playground”
m) Lesson20: “Around the world”
FRENCH / Titres
Mon argent de poche
Les loisirs de Nathalie
Range ta chambre !
Où allez-vous ?
« hier, j’ai… »
Pendant les vacances
Grammaire
Les adverbes interrogatifs
Les adjectifs interrogatifs
Les expressions avec faire et jouer
L’impératif
Les prépositions de lieu, de nationalité
Le passé composé avec avoir
Le passé composé avec être
ISLAMIC STUDIES / 1. No one can count Allah’s Blessings
2. The Most enormous sin
3. The teachings of Surat An-Nasr
4. The Quraish boycott the Muslims
5. The Year of Sorrows
6. Al-Esraa and Al-Me`raaj
7. So taught our Prophet (PBUH)
8. Obedience to parents
9. Kindness to the Human Beings
10. The teachings of Surat Al-Ma`oun
11. Prophet Yusuf
12. Surat Ad-Duha
ETHICS / 1. Conversation manners
2. Gentleness
3. self confidence
4. Bullying
ICT / THEORY
1. Things we need to connect with internet
2. Software security
(Viruses, Antivirus software, Avoiding viruses)
PRACTICAL
1.MODULE 7 Exploring Email
1. Email account
2. Replying to email
3. Forward, Cc and Bcc
4. Attachment
5. Managing folders
6. Optional extension and challenge activities
2.MODULE 8 Exploring Multimedia
1. Internet words
2. Browsing web pages
3. Copying graphics and text
4. Searching for information
5. Optional extension and challenge activities
SOCIAL STUDIES / 4 Coasts – seasons , tides and waves , erosion and disposition , coastal settlements examples
5 The wind – strength , ( storms , hurricanes and tornados )
History
In this introduction to the study of History students will begin with the Pre-History of human development from the earliest signs of civilisation until the first settled societies developed.
Key questions:
What is pre-history? How do we know about it? What do we know about the earliest humans and the life they lived?
Major elements of the Stone Age (old and new), Bronze Age, Iron Age to include dates, state of civilisation, lifestyle, areas.
Archaeological evidence and artefacts. How do we know the age of the things we find? Fossil evidence, carbon dating, situational dating etc
Introduction to Historical tools and concepts – BC, AD, archaeology as evidence, artefacts as evidence.
Writing –
- students should be able to answer short answer questions
- they should be able to collect data for a project/assignment and organise it on a page, in sentences largely of their own words
Oral
– should be able to answer a question in class clearly, in sentences that are put together properly, in good English
- They should be able to read simple texts or reports to the class, clearly.
– Basic research from their text, wall hangings, or specified websites. This would be limited to words or sentences taken verbatim
- Students will use a limited range of sources – textbook/s, wall charts, photographs, relevant videos. Mostly their use will be restricted to simple informational questions, or exercises.
- any project/assignment work could be done from a single source (although multiple sources can be encouraged)