Beech Class
Term 2
English
Spelling
  • Spellings are taken from the Year 5 and 6 New Curriculum spelling list.
  • In class we will be focusing on: words with silent letters, model verbs, words ending in ‘ment’ and adverbs of possibility and frequency.
Writing
  • using modal verbs or adverbs to indicate degrees of possibility
  • using relative clauses beginning with who, which, where, when, whose, that or with an implied (i.e. omitted) relative pronoun
  • using brackets, dashes or commas to indicate parenthesis
  • using conjunctions, adverbs and prepositions to express time and cause
  • using fronted adverbials
  • identifying the audience for and purpose of the writing, selecting the appropriate form
  • noting and developing initial ideas, drawing on reading and research where necessary
  • selecting appropriate grammar and vocabulary, understanding how such choices can change and enhance meaning
  • proof-read for spelling and punctuation errors
Reading
  • continuing to read and discuss an increasingly wide range of fiction, poetry, plays, non-fiction and reference books or textbooks
  • learning a wider range of poetry by heart
  • preparing poems and plays to read aloud and to perform, showing understanding through intonation, tone and volume so that the meaning is clear to an audience
  • checking that the book makes sense to them, discussing their understanding and exploring the meaning of words in context asking questions to improve their understanding
  • predicting what might happen from details stated and implied
  • summarising the main ideas drawn from more than one paragraph, identifying key details that support the main ideas
  • participate in discussions about books that are read to them and those they can read for themselves, building on their own and others’ ideas and challenging views courteously

Maths
  • compare and order fractions whose denominators are all multiples of the same number
  • identify, name and write equivalent fractions of a given fraction
  • recognise mixed numbers and improper fractions and convert from one form to the other
  • add and subtract fractions with the same denominator and denominators that are multiples of the same number
  • multiply proper fractions and mixed numbers by whole numbers
  • read and write decimal numbers as fractions
  • recognise and use thousandths and relate them to tenths, hundredths and decimal equivalents
  • recognise the per cent symbol (%) and understand that per cent relates to ‘number of parts per hundred’, and write percentages as a fraction with denominator 100, and as a decimal
  • solve problems which require knowing percentage and decimal equivalents

Science–Properties of materials
  • Compare and group together everyday materials on the basis of their properties, including their hardness, solubility, transparency, conductivity (electrical and thermal), and response to magnets
  • Understand that some materials will dissolve in liquid to form a solution, and describe how to recover a substance from a solution
  • Use knowledge of solids, liquids and gases to decide how mixtures might be separated, including through filtering, sieving and evaporating
  • Give reasons, based on evidence from comparative and fair tests, for the particular uses of everyday materials, including metals, wood and plastic
  • Demonstrate that dissolving, mixing and changes of state are reversible changes
  • Explain that some changes result in the formation of new materials, and that this kind of change is not usually reversible, including changes associated with burning and the action of acid on bicarbonate of soda.

Computing– Coding
  • Knows that programs are a sequence of algorithms and algorithms are a set of instructions
  • Knows the instructions within an algorithm have to be correctly sequenced to achieve specific outcomes
  • Can create algorithms using sequence and loops
  • Knows that programmers refine algorithms to improve accuracy and efficiency
  • Can debug by identifying errors in the programming language or syntax (eg missing bracket)
  • Knows how to protect the identify of themselves and others both at school and at home.

Humanities – The Vikings
  • Can describe how a significant individual or movement/group of people has influenced the UK or wider world.
  • Viking and Anglo-Saxon struggle for the Kingdom of England to the time of Edward the Confessor
  • Can explain that an event can have more than one cause.
  • Can describe Viking raids and invasion.
  • Can talk about the resistance by Alfred the Great and Athelstan, first King of England
  • Can describe further Viking invasions and Danegeld
  • Can explain Anglo-Saxon laws and justice.
  • Can explain who Edward the Confessor was and the events leading to his death in 1066.