Learning Overview - Year 5 - 1st Half Spring Term

Topic: Zooming In – From the Milky Way to Cardiff Bay

Dear Parent/Guardian,

We hope that you all had a wonderful Christmas and wish you a Happy New Year. We have lost no time in year 5 so far by getting stuck into a very busy term as can be seen via our class blog (accessed from our school website http://www.rctednet.net/pontyclunprimary/ ). Please check the blog regularly as it is updated several times a week. We are all looking forward to our trip to Cardiff Bay on Friday where we will visit Techniquest for a trip through space (inside the space dome), before going on a visit of the Bay itself via a land train and then a trip on the tourist boat.

Below, we have put together a grid highlighting the work that your son/daughter will be covering over this half term. We hope that it provides all the information that you require.

Mr Llewellyn and Mrs Marlow


Numeracy
· Rounding up any integer to nearest ten hundred and thousand
· Using decimal notation for tenths and hundredths
· Multiplying and dividing any large integer by ten and 100
· Recognising multiples and common multiplies
· Read and put coordinates in the first quadrant
· Rehearse names and properties of common 2-d shapes
· Use read and write units of time
· Read, write and interpret digital clock times.

Geography
· Where is Cardiff Bay?
· What we already know about the Bay.
· What does it look like, what is your opinion of this place?
· Understanding geographical vocabulary e.g. human features, physical features etc..
· Understanding/ writing a planning application.
· A discussion about how the place has changed.
· Land Use in the Bay?
· How do we get to the Bay?
· How is this place changing?
· What is sustainable development?
· How do people affect the environment in the Bay?

Literacy

Writing
· Recount events, activities and visits.
· News reports on a UFO sitting and or Cardiff Bay.
· Arguing viewpoints (Letter writing) - criticising, persuade, protest, support, object and complain.
· Poetic style full half and internal rhymes on Space.

Oracy
· Speaking and listening exercise
( Communicating clearly and confidently to others,. Positively evaluating each others work.)

Reading – Developing reading with fluency, skimming and scanning text to find appropriate information and distinguishing between fact and opinion bias and objectivity.


RE
· Zooming into the Synagogue as a place of worship.
· Rules within the house.
· Bar and Bat Mitzvah
· Jewish beliefs
· Getting married and festivals

Art
Marbling Techniques + designing aliens
Collage of Cardiff Bay.

DT/ICT
Control technology – using software to control external devices such traffic lights and light houses.

Welsh
· Conveying personal information.
· Clothes—buying them in the shop, problems with clothes.
· Likes and dislikes relating to clothes
· STABEC video – tale of a Spaceman who arrives in Wales.

Science
· Gain an understanding of Earth, sun and moon, know that the Earth is spherical
· Appreciating sizes of Earth, Sun and Moon.
· How the sun moves across the sky.
· The Earth spins on its axis every 24 hours.
· Sun rise and sunset
· Daylight hours,
· Modelling the Earth’s orbit around the Sun
· The orbit of the moon and the different phases of the Moon.
· The seasons.

Competitive games.
Creative gymnastics.
J5 - Mrs Marlow inside PE Wednesday, outdoor Monday
J6- Mr. Llewellyn inside PE Thursday, outdoor Friday
PE

Homework
Spelling – Your child will bring home a spelling list on Monday. They will be required to learn the words for the following Fridays test.
Reading – We expect each pupil to be reading at home on a daily basis for at least 15 min. Please update your child’s reading diary weekly. PLEASE ensure your child brings his/her reading book to school every day.
Literacy – Literacy work will be sent home as and when the teacher feels that it is appropriate.
Numeracy – Numeracy work covering the topics above will be sent home as and when the teacher feels that it is appropriate.
Projects/ Other – This half term we will be asking you to aid your child with their research into their speaking and listening topic: ……………………………………………… (MORE INFORMATION NEXT WEEK 26/01/09)