Year 5/6 Awesome Oaks and Resilient Redwoods

We shall be learning all the Victorian era including the industrial revolution. The children will also be learning about a local landmark of ‘Cromford Mill’ and how it played a part in the industrial revolution.

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Using Oliver Twist and Street Child as inspiration, we will be writing our own Rags to Riches story. We will be particularly focussing on dialogue: how to punctuate it correctly and when it is appropriate to use it. We will also look at how it shows character.

For our non-fiction unit we will be writing a newspaper report about the strange happenings in London and Oliver Twist going missing.

Hook

For our hook we matched quotes from books with the character who said them.

We discussed our preferences and decided which we thought were the best.

As part of Frozen Kingdom, the children will be learning about how animals adapt to their environment, particularly in colder climates. They will also learn to locate and explain the difference between the Arctic and the Antarctic.

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Using Shackleton’s Journey as inspiration, we will write our own biography on Dr. Barnardo.

We will particularly focus on writing multi-clause sentences and will identify/include simple, perfect and progressive/continuous tenses.

Hook

For our hook we had a range of pictures that gave us clues about Ernest Shackleton’s life.

The children will be learning all about the circulatory system and the role of the heart within the body. Children will also learn how to find and count their pulse and explain what this tells you about the heart.

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As part of our Talk for Writing sequence we will be focussing on ‘Openings and Endings’ of stories. We will be using The Cobbler of Krakow and Beowulf as our model texts. We will be writing our own “Defeat the Monster” story.

For our non-fiction unit we will be writing an explanation text of why our beast/monster is dangers. We will then use our knowledge of our topic (Bloodheart) to write an explanation text of how the circulatory system works. We will use the book “Keeping Fit” to support us in ideas of how to structure and layout our text.

Hook

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Memorable Experience

As part of ‘Bloodheart’ we got the opportunity to apply our learning about how the heart works and the different parts of the heart by getting to dissect a heart ourselves!

We will be learning all about Charles Darwin and his role in developing our understanding of evolution, selective breeding and adaptation. We will also begin to explain the changes through animals over time by comparing their skeletons/fossils. We will also begin to look at the work of Mary Anning.

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For our model text, we will use Sprot Gozzler to write a non-chronological report about an animal.
We will also look at a range of non-fiction texts to identify language and layout features for our own writing.

Hook

For our hook, we will work in groups to make up an animal and habitat in a box. We will plan and share a short presentation to tell the class about our animal.

The children will be learning all about the Ancient Maya and how they used to live. They will also begin to understand how what the Maya invented has impacted our lives today.

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For our Talk for Writing we will write our own ‘Warning Story’ using ‘The Canal’ as our model text.

We will be reading ‘Holes’ by Louis Sacher from Pie Corbett’s reading spine as our whole class story.

In English, for our non-fiction unit of writing, we will be creating a persuasive leaflet for Camp Green Lake (inspired by Holes) and then for our ‘Hot Write’ we will create a persuasive holiday leaflet for Mexico.

Hook

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Memorable Experience

We will have a visit from “The Drama Hut.” Children will have the opportunity to:

• Play a fast-paced 10 second picture game,  depicting life and famous structures during this  period.
•  Re-create the story of “The Hero Twins” from the Popol Vuh.
•  Explore Maya religion and the specific roles the Gods, Kings and Priests played during this period by playing ‘Guess the God’.
• Prepare with music and dance, a ritual ceremony of a willing victim for human sacrifice!

https://thedramahut.com/portfolio-items/mysteries-of-the-maya/ 

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