Staincliffe CE Junior School

Year 5/6

Year Group Leader - Miss Thomas (5T)

Teachers - Mrs M Patel (Mon, Tues & Fri) & Mrs N Ravat (Wed - Fri) (5/6PR)

Teaching Assistants - Mrs Zaman, Mrs Sheikh, Mrs T Patel and Mrs Jasat

Below is the SUMMER TERM overview - this covers everything that your child will be working on throughout the summer term in Year 5-6. 

For the full year overview of all subjects covered across this year group, please click on the Long Term Plan link below:

Year 5/6 Long Term Plan 2025 - 2026

PARENTS' OVERVIEW - SUMMER TERM 2025/26 (downloadable doc)

PARENTS' OVERVIEW - SPRING TERM 2025/26 (downloadable doc)

PARENTS' OVERVIEW - AUTUMN TERM 2025/26 (downloadable doc)

 

SUMMER TERM 2026

Maths

This term, the children will be learning how to measure in grams and kilograms and litres and millilitres using practical resources to cement their understanding. They will be able to recognise and draw right angles in 2D shapes and will understand what is meant by horizontal, vertical and curved lines. They will also embed their previous learning on how to find equivalent fractions, adding and subtracting fractions as well as being confident in finding tenths. Building on their division work, the children will be introduced to the chunking method, allowing them confidently to divide much larger numbers.

Towards the end of term, children will revisit reading and writing time, including 12 hour and 24 hour clock as well as working out word problems on duration. Finally, they will have the opportunity to construct and interpret tables, bar charts and pictograms focussing on using the correct scales.

Times Table Rock Stars

Your child will be given a username and password for access to an app called ‘Times Table Rock stars’ which can be accessed by any mobile device e.g. Phone, tablet and laptop. Through this app, the children have a great opportunity to learn their times tables in a fun interactive way.

Literacy

In the first half term they will look at a Greek Myth called Theseus and the Minotaur. The children will write their own myth based on this story. Linked to our guided reading text on Perseus and Medusa the children will write a recount as if they were Perseus going to face the mighty Medusa. The grammar/ punctuation focuses will be on conjunctions, using paragraphs, inverted commas and using different sentence starters.

In the second half term of the Summer Term, the children will develop their work on persuasion and using superlatives and persuasive techniques. They will then move on to look at the fairy story ‘Jack and the Beanstalk’. They will write their own version of the opening of the fairy story using inverted commas, different sentence starters and conjunctions. They will compare the original fairy stories to ones based on Jack and the Beanstalk- ‘Daft Jack and the Bean Stack’ and ‘Trust Me Jack’s Beanstalk’s Stinks’ which is from the giant’s point of view. They will write a diary entry as the giant. They will also study ‘Leon and the Place in Between’. They will write a description and a diary entry.

In guided reading we will continue to read a range of texts both fiction and non- fiction including Greek myths, poetry, discursive and reports. The children will continue to focus on VIPERS. These are questions on vocabulary, inference, predictions, explanations, retrieval and summarising.

PE Physical Education

During Summer term the children will be developing their physical skills in their PE lessons.

This will include: Unit 5: Physical.
Children will develop and apply their reaction and response and floor work balance through focused skill development sessions, healthy competition, cooperative games and group ‘Personal Best’ challenges.

Unit 6: Health and Fitness.

Children will develop and apply their ball chasing and stance through focused skill development sessions, healthy competition, cooperative games and group Personal Best challenges.

PE Day: Friday

Science

During the first half of term we will be studying Electricity to discover what we can do with this energy source! In this unit, the children will learn to identify common appliances that run on electricity; construct a simple series electrical circuit, identifying and naming its basic parts, including cells, wires, bulbs, switches and buzzers. They will also look deeper into understanding how circuits work.

In the second unit, Sound, children will look to discover how we can make different sounds. In this unit, the children will learn to identify how sounds are made, associating some of them with something vibrating; recognise that vibrations from sounds travel through a medium to the ear; find patterns between the pitch of a sound and features of the object that produced it; find patterns between the volume of a sound and the strength of the vibrations that produced it; and finally, recognise that sounds get fainter as the distance from the sound source increases.

Music

Year 5/6 will look at Blackbird by The Beatles – a song about civil rights. Children will listen and appraise, play progressive warm up games and perform their compositions. We can’t wait to hear what they come up with!

MFL Modern Foreign Languages  (French)

In French this term the children will be learning about French food, cafés, ordering and menus -‘Yum Yum’- or ‘Miam, Miam’! This unit introduces food vocabulary and revises numbers to 100, this time in the context of money and prices. The unit encourages children to develop their language detective skills and confidence with practical conversational French.

Computing

In Summer we will be using Purple Mash to:

• Code
• Compose beats
• Introduction to AI

PSHE Personal Social Health Economic Education

In the first half term, our topics will include: Engage and Keeping Safe.

In the second half term, our topic will include: Economic Wellbeing and Ourselves growing and changing, transition.

RE Religious Education

Over the summer term, in year 5/6 the children will be exploring the big question: 

How do different people express their spirituality?

This unit of work is based on ‘Expressing Beliefs’.   This unit explores the concept of spirituality and focuses on creative ways in which spirituality may be demonstrated. The unit offers opportunities for pupils to experiment with and experience a range of creative arts as they explore how religious communities and individuals express beliefs and emotions.  

Art and Design

The art and design topic for summer is sculpture.

In this topic, children’s work will be influenced by a range of inspirational sculptors as they explore and use unusual objects to create their own 3D works of art. As well as having the opportunity to create drums and maracas from recycled materials, pupils also look at different techniques to create different effects.

DT Design Technology

During the Summer term, children will enjoy making a textiles book sleeve. They will think about product design, first reflecting on different types of fastenings in their product research. They will then design their book sleeve, thinking about who the product is for and their interests and likes. The children will then spend their time sewing the sleeve and adding any design appendages before evaluating their finished product.

History

Our History topic for the term is a Local History Study.

We will be looking at History in our local environment and comparing and contrasting what it would have been like to live in this time. Would you prefer to live in the past or now?

Geography

In this unit the children will be trying to answer our big question: Where does our food come from?

Throughout this unit children will learn to identify that different foods grow in different biomes, explain which food has the most significant negative impact on the environment and consider changes people can make to reduce the negative impacts of food production.

Spelling

We follow a spelling programme provided by Spelling Shed. Children can then use the website to practise their weekly spellings choosing the level of support they need. Children will be given a weekly spelling test to consolidate their spellings.

The children can then use the website to practice their weekly spellings choosing the level of support they need. Each child has a copy of the spelling lists in their school book bag. They will be given a weekly spelling test to consolidate their spellings.

Homework

Every week on Friday (due in the following Tuesday) children will be given a maths activity, either linked to their learning that week or revisiting a previously taught skill.

• be expected to read their reading book and get their reading record signed x3 weekly
• play on TT Rockstars and Spelling Shed games.
• learn their times tables up to 12 x12
• learn their weekly spellings (each week has a different list focus that the children have been practising in school that week)

Each half term, Year 5 children will:

• be set their black book homework tasks. They need to choose AT LEAST 3 activities to complete which will be shared with with their class and teacher. It could include art work, writing, computer presentations, 3D models, posters etc. 

Spring:

This is your chance to show off what you can do! Choose at least 3 activities from the list below to complete over the summer term and during the half term holidays (due in on Monday 6th July).

You are going to share all your homework with your class mates and teacher. It could include art work, writing, computer presentations, 3D models, posters etc. You will have to explain to the class what you have done.