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Opal Class

Spring 1

Week 7

Week 6

Planning our sequel to Beowulf

English - Our final write of our creative writing plan

Week 5

D&T - Investigating and designing our own spooky wall hangings.

Science - What is a saturated solution?

Week 4

Work this week from our letters to Beowulf

Working scientifically this week

Week 3

Work this week on our Viking legacy.

Computing - An introduction to programming.

Week 2

Investigating how to deal with our emotions and feelings of anxiety - We Eat Elephants workshop.

Researching different aspects of Viking life and then using Book creator to create our own books.

Week 1

History - this week we have been investigating who the Vikings were and where they came from. We then looked at reasons why they came to Britain and investigated some o the Vikings gods.

Autumn 2

Autumn term 2 overview/MTP

Week 7

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Art - self portrait collage calendars

making our class Christmas cards

Science - building different circuits from diagrams.

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Week 6

English - planning a persuasive letter as to why we should just have a 4 day school week.

Week 5

Christmas Pantomime

PE - Partner work, sequence development and jumping/landing

History - Looking at Sunderland before and after the construction of the railway to the docks.

English - investigating the key features of a persuasive letter

Week 4

History - investigating the 1851 census of Hetton le Hole and identifying jobs people had linked to the coal mine and the newly built railway.

Gymnastics - investigating previous jumps and incorporating them with equipment.

Science - investigating electrical circuit diagrams and which will/will not work.

PSHE lesson on racism

Reading session based on There's a Boy in the Girls' Bathroom by Louis Sachar

Week 3

Tree Planting - planting our very own tree to take care off and watch it grow.

Computing - creating a simple game by designing the game grid and then making the game.

PE - balances and counter balances with a a partner

Week 2

RE - Investigating the Muslim religion worldwide, in the UK and in Sunderland.

Gymnastics - developing a routine

Webinar with author and poet Michael Rossen

Maths - investigating factors of a number.

Computing - analysing and creating a simple computer game.

Week 1

Maths investigation in to factors of a number.

Art - Finishing our shading unit.

Autumn 1

Here is an overview of what Year 5 will be learning in Autumn term 1 this year.

Week 7

Science work on gestation periods of animals

Literact Gold Reading Intervention

Week 5

Geography - researching natural materials found in different countries and how they are extracted and distributed.

This week we have been investigating the purpose of Black History Month and then creating a classroom display based on influential black people who have shown pride and power in their actions.

Week 4

Geography - investigating water as a resource and issues with water around the world. We also looked at water sustainability.

Science - investigating puberty and changes we will go through. Labelling male and female reproductive organs.

Science - investigating puberty and changes we will experiences during it.

Week 3

Literacy - creating our own expanded noun phrases based on Phillipe Petit's tight-rope walk between the two towers.

Literacy - Planning a biography about the life of Phillipe Petit.

Reading - making comparisons between characters we have been introduced to in the story 'The Good Thieves' by Katherine Rundell

RE - What do stories from the Bible tell us about God?

Week 2

English - investigating relative clauses and dialogue.

Geography - Looking at renewable and non-renewable energy sources.

Week 1

In RE this week we have been looking at what a God should be like. We used these terms to build our own God.

PE Fitness session

Tag Rugby - focusing on dodging and avoiding an opponent.

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