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Year 5 Home Learning

Dear Parents/Carers, To support your child’s learning at home this half term, please find attached: 1. A Curriculum Map detailing what your child will be learning about in each subject. 2. Knowledge Organisers which contain images, vocabulary and facts that are related to our learning. Through discussion and the activities listed below, please help your child become familiar with the organiser.

Below you will find useful information for the term ahead and home learning activities.

Useful Information • Year 5 have a daily PE session so please alternate school uniform and PE Kit every day. • Reading books are expected to be brought to and home from school daily. Books are changed as soon as your child finishes their book. • General enquiries about teaching, learning and curriculum in Year 5 can be sent to [email protected]

Learning Activities Reading Children are expected to read for at least 30 minutes daily. Your child is expected to complete a quiz on Accelerated Reader once they have finished their reading book. We are reading ‘Riddle of the Runes’ by Janina Ramirez this half term. Research Janina Ramirez and write a biography about her life and achievements. Spelling Spelling activities will be set each week on DB Primary for children to complete in their own time. Curriculum Humanities – Research and Anglo - Saxon and write a fact file about their life and achievements Mathsactivities – Complete Mathletics challenges linked to this half term’s topics – login. mathletics.com Science – Learn more about Forces at https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/znmmn39 PE – Learn about Dances around the world at https://www.fodors.com/news/photos/the-16-unique-ways-people-dance-all-over-the- world Art - Discover more about Surrealism at the Tate Modern https://www.tate.org.uk/kids/explore/what-is/surrealism PSHE – Check DB Primary> Computing for online safety advice. Websites DB Primary https://arkbentworth-lbhf.secure-dbprimary.com/ Accelerated Reader https://ukhosted40.renlearn.co.uk/2142174/ Janina Ramirez’s https://www.janinaramirez.co.uk Website Mathsframe https://mathsframe.co.uk/ Oak National Academy https://www.thenational.academy/ Many thanks for your continued support, Miss Dairo and Miss Oudomvilay Aiming High, Achieving Together Year 5 and 6 Subject Specialists

Year 5 Curriculum Map Autumn 2 Writing Fiction Diary Entry

Non-Fiction Non-Chronological Report Persuasive Writing

Reading and Riddle of the Runes Core Texts by Janina Ramirez

Variation of Non-Fiction texts based on The .

Mathematics Multi-Step word problems Subtraction Strategies Line Graphs Times tables Multiplication and Division

Science Forces

Humanities The Vikings

Art and Design Surrealism: Salvador Dali

PE Bootcamp/Circuits Dance (around the world)

French Holidays At the Restaurant

Computing E-Safety and Programming – DB Primary

PSHE How can friends communicate safely?

Knowledge Organiser Forces

Glossary Gravity Friction Magnetism 1 Force A push or pull on an object 11 Upthrust Pushes up on objects in water

2 Balanced When things are equal 12 Mass How much ‘stuff’ is in an object

How much gravity is acting Unbalanced When things are not equal Weight 3 13 on an object

A force which can only act Grams and Contact Force What we measure mass in 4 when touching an object 14 Kilograms A non-contact force which pulls A contact force which acts when A non-contact force which acts Non-Contact A force which can act Newtons What we measure weight in all objects on Earth to the centre two surfaces are sliding or a between two magnetic objects. 5 Force without touching an object 15 of the Earth. All objects have trying to slide over each other. A magnet can both push and Pulls objects on Earth towards Shaped to move easily gravitational force but larger Rub your hands together to feel pull. Attracting is pulling and 6 Gravity 16 Streamlined the centre of Earth through water objects have more. friction for yourself. repelling is pushing. Applied between two How tightly packed the ‘stuff’ Friction Density 7 sliding surfaces 17 is in an object or material Air resistance Water resistance Upthrust Water Applied on objects moving A type of simple machine Levers 8 Resistance through water 18 which uses a beam

Air Applied on objects moving A type of simple machine Pulleys 9 Resistance through air 19 which uses wheels and rope

Applied when two objects A type of simple machine Magnetism Gears 10 are magnetic 20 which uses toothed cogs

What are balanced an unbalanced forces? What is the difference between mass and weight? A contact force which acts A contact force which acts on A contact force which pushes When two forces acting on an object are equal in size on objects moving through the objects moving through water. upwards against objects in but they are acting in opposite directions, the forces Mass is how much matter is inside an object. air. Air resistance is a type of Water resistance is a type of water. Upthrust is also known are balanced. If an object is still, it will stay still and We measure mass in grams and kilograms and if an object is moving, it will continue to move at the can use scales to do this. friction and is the force that friction and is the force you as buoyancy and is the force same speed and in the same direction. pushes up against a parachute can feel pushing against you which makes things float that is falling towards when you try to walk in a instead of sink. the ground. swimming pool.

Levers Pulleys Gears

Balanced Forces

When forces are unbalanced, an object may start to move, stop moving, change speed or change direction. Weight is how strongly gravity is pulling down on an object. It is measured in newtons (N).

Levers can be used to turn a Pulleys can be used to make A gear is also known as a cog. small force into a larger force. a small force lift up a much They are like wheels but have They can help us to change how heavier load. If you add more ‘teeth’. A gear or set of gears can a force is used and do things wheels to a pulley, you need to be used to change the speed or such as lift heavy objects. There use less force to lift something. direction of a force. If one gear Unbalanced Forces are different kinds of levers. turns clockwise then the other will turn anti-clockwise.

2 3 Knowledge Organiser Vikings and Anglo-Saxons

Who were the Vikings? How did the Anglo-Saxons and Vikings co-exist? Glossary 1 Another name for the Viking invaders Vikings left their homelands in like The Anglo-Saxons and Vikings became neighbours in the Anglo-Saxons had 400 years earlier. They were Britain, but they did not always get along peacefully. 2 invade To enter a country armed and capture it great travellers and sailed to other parts of Europe, By 874 AD the Vikings had conquered all the kingdoms where they traded, raided, and often settled. The except . In January 878 AD, the Vikings 3 raid A rapid surprise attack, usually involving stealing something people of Britain called the invaders ‘Danes’, because succeeded in taking Wessex. King Alfred fled and built religious Churches, temples, mosques and other places of worship and institutions that exist many came from , but they also came from up his forces. In May 878 AD, King Alfred confronted 4 and . Vikings were also known as the the Vikings at the . His victory forced institutions to support and manage the practice of a specific set of religious beliefs . Norsemen means ‘people from the North’. to withdraw from Wessex and agree to the division of . Alfred’s Wessex controlled the 5 pagan A religion other than one of the main world religions, e.g. non-Christian Many Vikings sailed all over Europe south and west, Viking trade The action of buying and selling goods and services and the Atlantic Ocean in their was the north and east. Guthrum 6 . Their longships could and thirty of his chieftains were 7 conquest The invasion and control of a country or place sail in shallow water which baptized as Christians as part of meant they could travel the treaty and they swore not to 8 ‘’ A community gathering where problems would be solved and decisions made up rivers as well as raise arms against Wessex again. across the sea. They 9 chieftain Leader of the people and law speaker who oversees decisions were also used in battle and were long, What was life like in Viking Britain? 10 holmgang A type of duel to settle arguments light and slender so they could move 11 Danelaw The area of land given to the Vikings in the east of England around quickly. Viking home life was simple but comfortable. Vikings lived in longhouses made of woven branches and clay. A was a town and the five towns of the Danelaw were , , borough The longhouse had just a single room where all the 12 , Stamford and Lincoln family and the animals would live. The Vikings kept How were ships important to the Vikings? an open fire in their houses to provide heat and a 13 fortification A defensive wall built to strengthen a place against attack place to cook. The family ate, drank, and socialised The Vikings feared they would wander the world as around a stone fireplace. 14 monarchy A form of government with a monarch (King or Queen) at the head ghosts if they were not given the right type of funeral. Ordinary Vikings were buried with their sword or 15 rival A person competing with another for the same reason or for control of something favourite brooch, while the wealthiest men and women What role did women play in Viking society? An important moment where an issue is settled or there is a clear result such as victory were buried in ships to carry them to the next world. decisive 16 in battle These were crammed full of their belongings, from Viking women were independent. While men were away clothes and weapons to exploring new lands, women looked after the farms and 17 tactic An action or strategy carefully planned to achieve a specific result kitchen goods and furniture. households. They could become wealthy landowners, Horses, dogs and even slaves and while they had no public say in politics, they 18 alliance A relationship formed for shared benefit, especially between countries were killed and laid to rest had a lot of influence at home. Viking women were with the dead person. The skilful weavers, and they produced fine, warm textiles. 19 territory An area of land under the control of a ruler or state ships were covered with Women’s respected status is shown by the lavish ship mounds of earth or set alight. burials for female Vikings that have been discovered. 20 unification The process of being united or made into a whole

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Cambridge

Wantage London

Chippenham Rochester Edington

Wareham Aethelflaed, King Athelstan, King Ethelred the Unready, King Scandinavia King Guthrum DanelawENGLISH CHANNEL Lady of the Mercians 924–939 AD 978 –1013 AD 1016–1035 AD Scandinavia is a region in Guthrum was the leader Danelaw is the name given Aethelflaed, Lady of the Athelstan is also known as King Ethelred was the King Cnut was the son of King Edward the Confessor Northern Europe which of an important Viking to the lands of England Mercians, was the eldest the first King of England. son of King Edgar the the invading Danish king was the son of King during the time of the invasion against King ruled under the laws of the daughter of . The grandson of Alfred Peaceful who was the great- during the reign of King Ethelred the Unready. Vikings consisted of the Alfred the Great in Vikings (or Danes). The Strong and independent, she the Great, he defeated grandson of King Alfred Ethelred. To end years Edward’s reign was three kingdoms of Norway, 878 AD. When Guthrum lands were divided as part and her husband took back the Vikings, the Scots the Great. Some people of fighting, he agreed prosperous and the first real Denmark and Sweden. was defeated by Alfred, of the treaty between large areas of land from the and finally conquered think the name ‘unready’ to split the kingdom of towns started to emerge The Vikings were also he allowed himself to be Alfred the Great and Danes. After the death of her to bring the means he was not ready to England with Ethelred’s since the time of Roman known as Norsemen and baptised. A copy of the King Guthrum. husband, she continued her whole of England together cope with being king but son, Edmund. However, rule. Edward died leaving they travelled to peace treaty between quest to drive out the Danes in 937 AD. when translated using the Edmund died a month later no heir. Three rivals fought Britain from their the two still exists. This by joining forces with her language of the time, his and Cnut therefore became for the crown and the fight Scandinavian homelands. image shows Guthrum brother, . name reads Ethelred the King of all England. for power ended with the surrendering to Alfred. 4 the Ill-Advised. 5 in 1066.