Year 5
Homework will be sent out on a Thursday, to be handed in on the following Tuesday.
Please support in ensuring your child reads at least 5x a week.
Autumn 1
Children's Rights: Right or Wrong?
The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child sets out the rights that all children should have available to them. In this topic, children will be given the opportunity to explore how children’s rights have developed from life before the Education Acts were introduced to Britain to today, exploring the classic and visual texts of Oliver Twist and Street Child. This will enable the children to gain more of an understanding about what life was like in the past, using the Victorian era as just one example. Children will explore how and when the lives of children improved and began to change, paving the way for modern childhood today. Essentially, learners will develop their understanding of their rights and responsibilities, while exploring how social changes, throughout history, led to the development of these rights in our society. Through our book study, ‘The Lost Thing’ and through extracts and clips from ‘Oliver Twist’, we will gather evidence of the rights that were lost, and will evaluate what could have been done differently to ensure the rights were given more effectively.
Autumn 2
Who are the Rogues?
During this project, the children will understand that the choices people make in life will impact upon other people’s views of them. They will explore and ask questions about the perceptions they make and hold of others. English will be driven by the powerful book ‘The Highwayman’, where children will take part in performance poetry, building upon their skills of intonation, tone, volume and increasing fluency when reading aloud. We will then write from the viewpoint of our very own ‘rogue’. Through art, we will explore wax resist and tie-dye, using different materials, and we will use chalk and charcoal to re-create a scene from ‘The Highwayman’. In PE, we will work in groups to create our own ‘Pirate Dance’, using our expressions and body language to convey different behaviours and emotions. PSHE will be the basis for discussions around different images of people and what these then represent. To conclude this topic, the children will be performing a chosen piece of learning to an audience, illustrating the importance of perception and how we must get to know a person before forming an opinion about them.
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