Curriculum

Our teaching plans incorporate a varied approach to your child's education. Please scroll down to find further details of the subjects your child will be covering this term.

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Teaching plan Autumn 2005

Our Developing World

LOWER SCHOOL : Holly, Oak, Pine, Silver Birch

REMEMBER TO TAKE A READING BOOK HOME EVERY NIGHT. Try and learn tables and spellings thoroughly. Another type of homework will be set once a week.

English

Literacy Hour to include short novels, playscripts, poetry on a common theme, reports for newspapers, non-chronological reports, stories about imagined worlds; speaking and listening; Writers' Workshop; handwriting, spelling, punctuation; drama

Mathematics

Numeracy Hour to include 4 rules of number; place value; money; measures;time; fractions; data-handling; shape; mental calculations; problem solving

Science

Forces; magnets; electricity

History

Ancient Egypt

I.C.T.

Combining text and graphics; exploring simulations; research

Technology

Egyptian shaduf; lighting a shoe box room

Cookery – Egyptian bread; cocnut pyramids; mince pies

Geography

Study of a less economically developed country

Music

Exploring pulse and rhythm

P.E.

Swimming; base training; gymnastics; skills in hockey, netball and football

Events

Science Week

Harvest

Book Week

Nativity play

Carol service

R.E. and P.S.E.

Ourselves and our community; new beginnings; bullying

Art

Sketching; Egyptian friezes; scrolls; Tutankhamum mask; colour wheels

This is an outline of our teaching programme for the next term. If you would like further details, please talk to the class teacher. You will have seen from your child's timetable that we are no longer allocating specific teaching times to some subject areas. This is to allow us to be more creative with the curriculum and to make links across subjects where they are meaningful. We hope this will be more stimulating and motivational for the children, as well as less frustrating because of having to cut short a project because the subject time slot has come to an end.

Teaching plan Autumn 2005

Our Developing World

UPPER SCHOOL : Beech and Willow (Y6)

Cedar and Horse Chestnut (Y5)

Homework is set on a Monday, Thursday and Friday. This happens EVERY week. Year 6 may well have more homework than Year 5. If homework is not handed in on time there is always a penalty to pay! Parent's help and support is very necessary with homework. Please supervise and sign. Reading should be done every night. Please remember to check and sign diaries every week.

English

Y5 – story openings; instructions; investigating character; poems by significant poets

Y6 – established authors; scripts; language and style of non fiction; personal response to text

Spelling; punctuation; grammar; handwriting; Writers' Workshop

Mathematics

Multiplying/ dividing with formal and informal methods; real life problems; equivalent fractions; decimal notation; probability; co-ordinates; units of measurement

Science

Forces; changing circuits

History

Investigating the civilisation in the Indus Valley

I.C.T

Multi-media presentation; using hyper-links in powerpoint; evaluating information; searching data-bases for anomalous information

Technology

Build a fairground model using motors and gears

Geography

Life in the Indus Valley ; comparing and contrasting using correct vocabulary; atlas skills

Music

Exploring lyrics and melody

P.E.

Swimming; gymnastics; BASE training; invasion games (football, netball, hockey)

Events

Science Week

Harvest

Book Week

Nativity play

Carol service

R.E. and P.S.E.

Democracy and community; recognising feelings; dealing with bullying; understanding how Hindus worship

Art

Collage; medi patterns; screen printing; sketching

This is an outline of our teaching programme for the next term. If you would like further details, please talk to the class teacher. You will have seen from your child's timetable that we are no longer allocating specific teaching times to some subject areas. This is to allow us to be more creative with the curriculum and to make links across subjects where they are meaningful. We hope this will be more stimulating and motivational for the children, as well as less frustrating because of having to cut short a project because the subject time slot has come to an end.

 

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