Year 5 at Park Lane International School
Children aged 9-10
Literacy (Reading and Writing)
The school implements the National Literacy Strategy. The children are involved in a daily Literacy Lesson lasting for one hour. For the first 30 minutes of the lesson the whole class study texts to develop their reading or writing skills and focus on word or sentence work. During the next 20 minutes, one group works with the teacher on guided reading or writing, while the remainder of the class work on independent activities. The final 10 minutes of the lesson involves reviewing learning and / or discussing homework.
Fiction and Poetry
• Novels, stories and poems by significant children’s writers, and from a variety of cultures and traditions.
• Traditional stories, myths, legends and tables.
• Concrete poetry, classic narrative poetry, choral performance poetry.
• Play scripts.
Non-Fiction
• Recounts of events, activities and visits.
• Reports, records and explanations.
• Instructional texts: rules, recipes and instructions.
• Persuasive writing: points of view, letters, newspaper reports and leaflets.
• Dictionaries and thesauruses, including ICT resources.
Phonics and Spelling
• Taught through a progressive structure using a variety of resources.
Grammar and Punctuation
• Taught through a progressive system, in line with the Literacy Strategy, with a range of work linked to both fiction and non-fiction texts.
Reading
• All children are provided with a variety of reading experiences, through both shared guided and individual texts.
Numeracy
The school implements the National Numeracy Strategy. The children are involved in a daily Numeracy Lesson, which lasts for one hour. For the first 10 - 15 minutes of the lesson the class are involved in mental maths activities. During the next 10 - 15 minutes, the main focus of the lesson is introduced and again involves whole class teaching. For the third part of the lesson, approximately 20 - 25 minutes, the children work individually or in groups, on follow up activities. In the final 10 minutes learning is reviewed and/or homework is discussed.
• Multiply and divide any positive integer up to 10,000 by 10 or 100 and understand the effect.
• Order a given set of positive and negative integers.
• Use decimal notation for tenths and hundredths.
• Round a number with one or two decimal places to the nearest integer.
• Relate fractions to division and to their decimal representatives.
• Calculate mentally a difference such as 8006-2993.
• Carry our column addition and subtraction of positive integers less than 10,000.
• Know by heart all multiplication facts up to 10 x 10.
• Carry out short multiplications and division of a three-digit by a single-digit integer.
• Carry out long multiplication of a two-digit by a two-digit integer.
• Understand area measured in square centimetres (cm2); understand and use the formula in words “length x breadth” for the area of a rectangle.
• Recognise parallel and perpendicular lines, and properties of rectangles
• Use all four operations to solve simple word problems involving numbers and quantities, including time, explaining methods and reasoning.
Science
The children are given activities in which they follow instructions, observe, predict and hypothesise, test, record, evaluate and develop scientific vocabulary. They are given the opportunity to investigate and explore science practically through the following topics:
Changing sounds
• Produce sounds using vibrations and these vibrations travel from the sources through a variety of materials.
• Use musical instruments to explore ways of producing sounds and how pitch and loudness can be altered.
Changing state
• Consolidate ideas about changes of state that can be reversed (evaporation and condensation) and identify their relationship with the Water Cycle.
Keeping healthy
• Study the various aspects of keeping healthy (diet, exercise, etc)
• Explore the effect of exercise on the heart and pulse.
More about dissolving
• Recognise what happens when a variety of solids dissolve.
Life cycles
• Learn about animal and plant reproduction as part of their life cycles and that there are distinct processes and changes.
Gases around us
• Recognise that gases are materials and can be distinguished from solids and liquids by their properties.
• Investigate the use of some important gases and where gases are found.
Information and Communication Technology (ICT)
Evaluating information, checking accuracy and questioning plausibility
• Interpret, check and question data and recognise that poor quality information leads to unreliable results.
Spreadsheets
• Use a spreadsheet to carry out calculations and produce graphical representations.
Analysing data and asking questions
• Carry our complex searches in a database.
Controlling devices
• Learn how to control devices such as buzzers, small motors and lights by turning them on and off according to a set of instructions.
Modelling effects on a screen
• Learn to use an object-based graphics package to produce images and visual models.
• Learn key differences between an object-based programme and a paint package.
History
Children participate in activities where they place events, people and artefacts in chronological order, interpret historical information from a variety of sources, recognise similarities and differences between past and present and develop a historical vocabulary. They will be given the opportunity to develop these skills though the following topics:
Victorian Britain
• Compare the life of Victorian children and children today.
• Cover the following topics: the life of Queen Victoria, working children, rich and poor, Victorian school, inventions and discoveries and how children spend their leisure time.
Local history
• The main emphasis is on the history and culture of Prague and the Czech Republic.
Geography
Pupils participate in activities in which they use appropriate geographical vocabulary, recognise and name geographical features, compare and contrast features of different locations, develop and use geographical enquiry skills e.g. making and using photographs, maps and plans including symbols and keys. They will be given the opportunity to develop these skills through the following topics:
Investigating rivers and coastlines
• Identify the components of the Water Cycle.
• Learn how rivers erode, transport and deposit materials to produce landscape features.
Different localities
• Compare different environments, including Prague and the Rain Forest.
How and where do we spend our time?
• Analyse leisure time and compare it to other places and time periods.
Design and Technology
Activities in which children plan, design, make and evaluate are presented and opportunities created for children to consider appearance, function, safety and reliability when developing ideas. They will develop these skills though the following topics:
Bread
• This topic provides an opportunity to develop children’s understanding of, and skills in, working with food through a range of activities related to bread products.
Structures – musical instruments
• Children learn about the construction of a range of musical instruments, including those from different times and cultures, and how different sounds can be created and altered to make different notes.
• They learn to use this knowledge and understanding to design and make a working musical instrument using a combination of materials.
Moving toys
• Children develop their designing skills by using information sources to generate ideas and formulate an understanding of how mechanisms can be used to produce movement.
Art
Children develop creativity and imagination by building on their knowledge, skills and understanding of materials and through providing a range of increasingly complex activities. Developing their control of materials, tools and techniques children become more confident in using materials and processes.
• Artwork is topic-based and includes: drawing, painting, pastels, collage, 3D modelling, textiles and clay.
Music
• Continue to develop listening skills, pulse and rhythm, pitch.
• Explore rhythm patterns, ragtime, jazz and blues styles, progressions and simple improvisational skills.
• Explore the structure of music.
• Learn a wide variety of songs, sometimes topic-related.
• Pay attention to important singing techniques and the beginning of two-part singing.
• Further development of sound/symbol relationship in music reading.
• Compose and play sound graphs and pictures and explore the use of sound for description, feeling, movement, effect and atmosphere.
• Understand something about the science of sound.
• Develop skills of performance through school concerts and productions.
Physical Education
Gymnastics
• Create sequences on floor and apparatus, working within themes of balance, flight and partner work.
Swimming
• Refine all four strokes. Development of starts, turns and finishes and partner work.
• Compete in races.
Dance
• Experience planning, performing and evaluating movement sequences based on National Curriculum topics.
Athletics
• Develop greater endurance, speed of movement, jump higher and further, throw for distance and accuracy.
Outdoor Pursuits
• Develop map reading, orienteering and problem-solving skills in teams.
• Become aware of outdoor safety issues.
Games
• Experience and refine skills related to invasion games, net game and racket games, and striking and fielding games.
• Develop and understand significant rules and sporting conduct.
Modern Foreign Language
Children will develop language skills in the following areas: greetings, making introductions, number to 50, hobbies, classroom language, likes and dislikes, colours, animals, sports and hobbies, parts of the body and asking “What is…?”