Opal Class
Summer Term 2
Summer Term 2 Overview
Week 2
Comparing The Lost Happy Endings to Little Red Riding Hood in literacy.
Investigating how paragraphs are structured and cohesive devices within them.
Week 1
Thies week we have started using Reading Plus to help us improve our reading.
Our literacy unit is based on the book 'The Lost happy Endings'. This week we have been focusing on our reading skills.
Summer Term 1
Summer Term 1 overview
Summer 1 Medium Term Plan
Week 5
Science - investigating seed dispersal and factors which impact the growth of plants and flowers.
Art work this week - clay flower sculptures.
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.
