Opal Class
Summer Term 1
Summer Term 1 overview
Summer 1 Medium Term Plan
Week 4
Investigating 3D shapes
Week 3
School nurse visit to talk about puberty and making appropriate healthy choices as we grow.
PE Dance workshop
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Science - dissecting a flower to identify the male and female sections used in reproduction.
Investigating plant life cycles and factors affecting reproduction
Week 2
English - Adverbial sentence matching
Art - Sketching flowers
Dance - Learning the next steps in the sequence
Week 1
Maths - Working mathematically with practical elements
Dance - We are learning a dance to Michael Jackson's - Smooth Criminal
Bikeability - Y5 learning safety skills for riding their bikes on the road.
Spring 2
Spring Term 2 Overview
Week 5
Creating recipes for a healthy body image in PSHE
Final designs for our theatres in DT
Editing our non-chronological reports in English
Week 4
DT planning and creating
Careers fair
Week 3
Practising the recovery position and storyboard emergency scenarios in PSHE
Creating mechanisms in DT
Week 2
Calculating the perimeter of polygons
Researching and using new vocabulary in English
Our British Science week experiments
Researching mechanisms in DT
Week 1
Our Anti-Smoking posters
Work this week from our creative writing
World Book Day
Spring 1
Spring term 1 overview
Week 7
PE - Benchball
DT - Sewing our spooky wall hangings
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
Y5 and 6 Christmas Party
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Santa Dash 2025
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.
