Brookburn
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Curriculum Overview – Summer 1

Geography – Our Planet

● Identify links to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
● Know what governments are doing (or not doing) to combat the climate crisis.

English

Narrative – Creating a spooky story based on the video The Hole. We will seek to create a distinct atmosphere using word choice and sentence structures.

Reading – Building on the skills we have been teaching all year and applying them in practise SATs style questions. We will focus on explaining clearly and providing justification for our statements.

Focus text: Final Year by Matt Goodfellow. Matt is an author, who is well known to the school having performed poetry at Brookburn and included a former Brookburn teacher as a character in one of his books.

Maths

Algebra:
• Continuing number sequences by adding and subtracting
• Using shapes and fruit to represent different values
• Using bar models to express algebraic equations
• Turning stories into algebraic equations

Add, Subtract, Multiply and Divide:
• Identifying the required function
• Solving multi-step problems and showing our working
• Identifying errors
• BODMAS

Geometry:
• Symmetry
• Transform by: translation, rotation, reflection and Identifying

Science – Animals including Humans

Classify living things into broad groups according to observable characteristics and based on similarities and differences.
• Identify and name the main parts of the human circulatory system, and describe the functions of the heart, blood vessels and blood
• Recognise the impact of diet, exercise, drugs and lifestyle on the way their bodies function.
• Describe the ways in which nutrients and water are transported within animals, including humans.

Other Curriculum Areas

RE – What can be done to reduce racism? Can religion help?
Art – Using Art To Explore Global Issues Using sculpture to campaign for global, environmental issues.
Music – Music & Me, the first in a series of units focusing on inspirational women in music.
PE – Ultimate Frisbee Learning to attack and defend as a group by moving intelligently into space. Rounders Learning to send the ball into space to maximise run time.
PSHCE – Relationship and Sex Education We will cover: changes in life; loving relationships; how babies are made and puberty (physical and emotional changes)
Computing – Introduction to 3D modelling – to develop pupils’ knowledge and understanding of using a computer to produce 3D models.
French – Moi dans le monde – we will learn about the French speaking world and will follow four children who live in different French-speaking countries and learn about their cultures.

Behaviour and Attitudes

In Year 5 and 6, children are being taught empowering learning skills to help them be an effective ‘team worker’ and a ‘resourceful thinker’. These skills allow children to get the most from their lessons and learning, while also helping them regulate, applying the strategies they have been taught. This half term we are focusing on:
• Taking on a range of roles within a group.
• Working with a range of people, including those with different views of their own.
• Breaking ideas down into smaller steps to support everyone within the group.
• Persevering even when the solution is not readily available.
• Adapting and applying learning to new situations.
• Understanding the difference between a task that is too difficult and one which requires them to think more deeply.

UN Convention of the Rights of the Child

This term we have our Gold accreditation visit. The Gold accreditation is the highest recognition from UNICEF UK, and it reflects a long-term commitment to ensuring that children’s rights are understood, respected, and promoted by everyone in our school community – staff, pupils, and families alike.
During the visit, UNICEF assessors will speak with pupils, staff, and members of the school community to find out how well children’s rights are understood and how they influence school life. They will be looking at how our pupils:
• Are aware of their rights and respect the rights of others
• Feel listened to and involved in decisions that affect them
• Act as active, responsible citizens both in school and in the wider world

Keep an eye on your inbox – Our Rights Respecting Councillors will be sending out a ‘Parents Guide to Rights’ this term.

Important Dates

Ghyll Head Meeting for parents & pupils – 23rd April @ 17:00 Meet at school to discuss the Year 6 residential, meet the staff who are going on the trip and hear from the centre’s lead instructor.

School closed: Monday 5th May (Bank Holiday), Thursday 8th May (INSET)

SATS – 12th – 15th May Monday – Grammar, Punctuation and Spelling Papers; Tuesday – Reading Paper; Wednesday – Maths 1 (Arithmetic) and Maths 2 (Reasoning); Thursday – Maths 3 (Reasoning)

16th May – SATS Party!

WC 19th May- Enterprise launch

SATs Information