The Ancient Greeks
This leaflet contains curriculum information for the coming term. Please support your child where you can. If you would like more information please get in touch.
Many thanks,
Miss Evans, Miss Heeks,
Mrs Downward & Mr Bond
Key Dates for the diary
Monday 20th– Friday 24th February—Half term holiday
27h February—Training day—school closed to children
02.03.23—World Book Day
10.03.23—Science Day
Tuesday 21st March – Year 5 Inspire Afternoon
Homework
Homework will be given out on a Friday, on Mirodo to be completed throughout the following week.
The pupils will receive every week:
- A piece of English homework
- A piece of Maths homework
It is also important that you hear your child read on a regular basis, ideally this would be for a minimum of 10 minutes a day. Please record when you have heard your child read in their reading record book.
Children will also have weekly spelling tests. They wil have between 8 and 10 new words to learn each week and tests take place on Fridays.. The spellings will be posted on the class DOJO pages
Topic
The Ancient Greeks
Civilisation, Communication and Inventions
Reading
Our key texts are going to be:
Who Let the Gods Out?
Writing
The writing genres we are going to study are:
Myth
Balanced Argument
Narrative Poetry
Maths
Our Maths topics are going to be:
Perimeter and Area
Statistics
LOTC
Learning Outside the Classroom
Learning Outside the Classroom
Orienteering Tasks in Maths, English and Topic Spontaneous trips TBC
Science
Earth and Space
STEM project
Cross-Curricular
Art—Sculpture (Greek masks)
Music—Flute/Brass lessons
RE—Christianity
PE –Gymnastics/Dance
History—Timeline, Greek Theatres, democracy
Geography— Ancient Greek States,, weather, landscape
Computing—STEM project
