English: The Golden Age of Islam

Big Read: Fiction Warning Tales

Text: 1001 Arabian Nights with a focus on the Tale of Ala al-Din

Text: The Walk – A Warning Tale

Text: Report on The Golden Age of Islam

PLUS:

• War Poetry (Remembrance Day)
• The Christian Nativity

Reading focus:

Comprehension questions:

• Find and copy (retrieval)
• Interpreting vocabulary
• Inference
• Purpose and organisation

Writing tasks:

Narrative – warning story writing

• Expanded noun phrases
• Multi-clause sentences with relative clauses
• Commas / brackets around relative clauses

Non-chronological report writing

• Multi-clause sentences with relative clauses
• Punctuation: commas / brackets / dashes

Newspaper report writing

• Multi-clause sentences with relative clauses
• Variety of punctuation: commas / brackets / dashes / semi-colon

Spellings:

Place value

• Reading & writing numbers up to 10 million
• Rounding
• Ordering
• Comparing
• Negative numbers
• Mental calculations with numbers up to 10 million
• Written problems with numbers up to 10 million
• Addition written methods
• Subtraction written methods
• Long division written methods (four digits divided by two digits)
• Common factors, common multiples, prime numbers

Four Operations:

• Addition, subtraction, multiplication, division
• Short and long written methods
• Using representations and diagrams
• Factors, multiples
• Squares and cubes
• Prime numbers

Fractions

• Equivalent fractions
• Comparing and ordering fractions
• Adding and subtracting fractions
• Problem solving
• Multiplying and dividing fractions                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   

Electricity

• Thermal conductors
• Insulators
• Circuits
• Switches

Forces

• Galileo and Newton
• To understand why scientists changed our understanding of forces
• Gravity and its power
• Up-thrust                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              

The Golden Age of Islam:

• The role of Baghdad in the early Islamic empire
• Differences between Islamic empire (Baghdad) and Europe in the Dark Ages (London)
• The House of Wisdom
• Islamic empire and medicine
• The first four caliphs
• Islamic art
• The Islamic empire as a major world power