Autumn Term 2025

Reading 

In the Autumn term the children will be making comparisons within and across books, identifying how language, structure and presentation contribute to meaning, distinguish between statements of fact and opinion, retrieve, record and present information from non-fiction  and summarise the main ideas drawn from more than one paragraph, identifying key details that support the main ideas. They will be predicting what might happen from details stated and implied in the text. Exploring meanings of words in context to the text. Inference of characters’ feelings, thoughts and motives from their actions and supporting this with evidence from the text.  

To help your child at home, please continue to encourage them to read daily and record their progress in their reading records for the teachers to see. 

Writing 

In the Autumn term, we will be focusing our learning on writing to discuss, writing to narrate, writing to inform and writing to entertain. They will learn new skills; practise using them and apply them through pieces of extended writing. They will have time to edit their work and evaluate their work.  

To help your child at home, please continue to learn their spellings every week as they will have a spelling test every Monday. They have two weeks to learn the spellings and we test the children each week so we can monitor their progress.  

 

Maths 

In the Autumn Term, the children will be focusing on the following units:  

Year 5: Place value of numbers up to 1,000,000, addition, subtraction, multiplication and division with associated problem solving and fractions.  

Year 6: Pace value of numbers up to 10,000,000, addition, subtraction, multiplication and division, fractions and converting units.  

To help your child at home, please continue to access doodle, we will be monitoring the children and setting assignments on doodle. If your child has not passed the ultimate for their timestables they will also need to continue to practise their timestables.  

 

French 

In French this term the children will learn about portraits and how adjectives change if they describe a feminine noun, how to describe hair and eye colour and to create, understand and write descriptive sentences. The second unit will be about families and the children will learn how to talk about different family members, build descriptive sentences and to prepare a short description about their family.  

 

Computing 

The children will be learning how to clip blocks together and predict what will happen next in micro:bit programming. They will be creating their own images to make an animation and recognise the different between ‘on start’ and ‘forever’. They will learn how to break programs down into smaller steps and attempt to challenge themselves with choosing different blocks to complete the program.  

In the second half of the Autumn Term the children will be looking at data handling and identify some types of data the Mars Rover could collect. They will explain how Mars Rover transmits the data back to Earth and identify input, processing and output on the Mars Rover. 

 

PSHE 

The children will be learning that families are varied and differences must be respected. They will learn and explore the physical and emotional boundaries in friendships; exploring: the roles of bully, victim and bystander; how behaviour affects others; manners in different situations and learning about bereavement.  

In the second half of the term the children will be learning about the importance of relaxation and sleep; understanding how to cope with failure; learning how to set goals and how to achieve goals; taking precautions while in the sun; healthy meals and ingredients; learning about different emotions and possible ways of dealing with a difficult situation. 

 

Music 

In music the children will be learning about a type of song called a sea shanty. As well as providing an opportunity to find out more about the context, history, and purpose of sea shanties as work songs, the activities will provide inspiration for pupils to create rhythm games and a class arrangement using their voices and instruments.  

In the second half of the term the children will be listening to Gospel songs and understanding the history of Gospel songs and where they originally came from. The children will have the opportunity to explore gospel music and have a go to develop their singing in a Gospel style. 

Science

This term our topics are Circulation and Controlling Electrical Circuits. We will be looking at the circulatory system and how it works understanding the functions of the heart, lungs and blood vessels. We will be investigating if height affects lung capacity, which is also our Longitudinal Study, how exercises affects our pulse rate and use our knowledge to predict the effect of diseases on the body. In Controlling Electrical Circuits we will be learning about current, voltage and resistance by investigating a variety of different series circuits using bulbs, motors, buzzers and switches and using the scientific symbols when drawing them.

 

Art and Design

Still Life is our art topic for this term. We begin by learning about what Still Life is and discuss the different examples of artwork with their often symbolic meanings. We will use sketching pencils to explore value and use it to create 3D shapes from 2D shapes. The children will then use this knowledge and skill to explore and record observational drawings using value to create form before arranging and drawing their own Still Life.

 

Design Technology

This term we begin our DT with electronic board games. Following on from their work in science, the children will design and make a Christmas themed board game giving careful consideration to the users who will be the Oak class children. They will make an interactive electronic board game that incorporates circuits with switches as well as construct the board itself, game pieces and rules to play before testing them out and evaluating them.

 

History

In history we will be exploring a non-European contrast with Britain c900 to answer the enquiry question: Was the early Islamic civilization a ‘beacon of light in the Dark Ages’? We will be exploring what life was like in Britain compared to other parts of the world during the Dark Ages and explaining the causes and consequences of events that took place along with considering the historical significance of scholars and inventions from that time.

 

Geography

Our focus for geography is “Where does energy come from?” We will be learning about different types of energy both renewable and non-renewable, why they are important and understand the benefits and drawbacks of different energy sources. We will be using atlases and maps to identify energy trading routes before comparing and contrasting how the UK and America generate energy.