Autumn Term Curriculum Coverage
Literacy:
- Reading and writing a range of fiction and non-fiction texts including fantasy stories, descriptive writing, poems, short stories and letters.
- A range of writing skills including editing own work, writing collaboratively, complex sentences, grammar and spelling strategies.
- Speaking & listening skills.
- Punctuation - Higher level
- Whole class reading and comprehension sessions including gathering evidence from text and inference
- A range of cross-curricular writing opportunities.
- Autumn I core text: Stormbreaker
- Autumn II core text: Quest stories
Science:
- Earth and Space
- Forces
RE:
- Was Jesus the Messiah?
- What does it mean to be a Muslim in Britain today?
Maths:
- Place Value
- The four main operations: addition, subtraction, division and multiplication
- Fractions – ordering, comparing, equivalent, fractions of amounts, adding, subtracting, multiplying, dividing.
- Link between fractions, decimals and percentages
- Decimals – ordering, comparing
- Percentages of number -10%, 25%, 50%, 11% etc.
- Co-ordinates
- Special numbers: square, cube, square and cube root, prime
- Factors, multiples
- BIDMAS
Music:
- Composition
- The Blues
French:
- Pets
- Space
History:
- The Dark Ages
- Geography:
- Distribution of the World’s resources
- Comparing Mexico and Sweden
P.S.H.E:
- Me and my relationships
- Valuing Differences
P.E / Games:
- Co-ordination, balance and agility, Haka
- Ball skill games: tennis/volleyball/Hockey
I.C.T:
- Online Safety
- Introduction to Python
Art/DT:
- Drawing
- Mixed Media
- Food
- Mechanical systems