Genre-based planning for English (1/2 Term)Year 5 Autumn 1

Mood board:

Showcase:Parents will be invited to watch children perform a Mayan ceremonial dance and take part in a walking gallery to explore the work produced by the children.

Knockhall Primary SchoolKnockhall Primary SchoolKnockhall Primary School The Mayans

Published work:Children in Year 5 will be provided various opportunities to research, read and produce work related to the Ancient Maya Civilization. This includes the Mayan masks, artefacts and non-chorological report about the Ancient Maya Civilization.

LoTC:The British Museum

Big bang:Create masks worn in Ancient Maya Civilization and artefacts.

SMSC Calendar:

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Science History Geography Computing

Fiction activities:

Our main reading text this term is called ‘The Jaguar Stone- Middleworld’ by J & P Voelkel.

This book explores the lives of the Mayans. The main character is a fourteen-year-old Max Murphy is looking forward to a family vacation. But his parents, both archaeologists and Maya experts. During his journey, he will unlock ancient secrets and meet strangers who are connected.

Children will use the reading and research activity to produce their own adventure story.

Curriculum objectivesReading:Recommending books and giving reasons for their choices.Use inference and deduction with confidence.Writing:Identifying the audience for and purpose of the writing.Drawing on reading and research where necessary Considering how authors have developed characters and settings.Oracy:Participate in discussions about books

Reading activities

Children will:

Take part in reading VIPERS to develop their skills in vocabulary, inference, prediction, explanation, retrieval and sequencing.

Non-fiction activities

Children will:

Produce a non-chorological report by the end of this term related to the Ancient Maya Civilization.

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Text/stimulus

Genre-based planning for English (1/2 Term)Properties and Materials:

Children will:

Compare and group together everyday materials based on evidence from comparative and fair tests, including their hardness, solubility, transparency, conductivity (electrical and thermal), and response to magnets

Understand that some materials will dissolve in liquid to form a solution, and describe how to recover a substance from a solution

Use knowledge of solids, liquids and gases to decide how mixtures might be separated, including through filtering, sieving and evaporating

Give reasons, based on evidence from comparative and fair tests, for the particular uses of everyday materials, including metals, wood and plastic

Demonstrate that dissolving, mixing and changes of state are reversible change

The Mayans

Children will:

Begin to date events. Recognise some similarities

and differences between periods.

Identify some of the ways in which the past is represented.

Select sources of information to help with my enquiry.

With help, choose reliable sources of factual evidence to describe houses, settlements, culture, leisure activities, clothes, way of life and buildings from the past.

The Maya Civilization

Children will:

Locate the world’s countries, using maps to focus on Europe (including the location of Russia) and North and South America, concentrating on their environmental regions, key physical and human characteristics, countries, and major cities

Interpret a range of sources of geographical information, including maps (geography).

locate the world’s countries, using maps to focus on Europe (including the location of Russia) and North and South America, concentrating on their environmental regions, key physical and human characteristics, countries, and major cities

Foundation subjects planning

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Character Music Art D.T.The children will learn about

respect and honesty in this unit of work.

The Mayans Ceremonial Dance Music and Mayan instruments.

The Mayans Masks and artefacts.

Inspired by the traditional Mayan masks, students will use a variety of art techniques to assemble a unique mask and use it to perform an original ceremonial dance.

The Mayans Masks and artefacts

Inspired by the traditional Mayan masks, students will use a variety of art techniques to assemble various artefacts and use it to perform an original ceremonial dance.

P.E. MFL R.E. Children’s UniversityThe children will be learning tag rugby and football in PE this term.

This year, the children will be learning how to speak Spanish. The children will learn how to greet each other and learn other words and phrases.

Judaism

Pupils will:Know that Jews believe in one God, who created everything.Know that the Jewish story of creation is found in the Torah, a holy book for Jews.Share feelings about having a responsibility for caring for theworld;Understand Jewish beliefs about caring for God's creation.

The children will take part in a range of activities that contribute to Children’s university points.

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