Year Five - Term One

The student should be able to:

Objective

Literacy

Speaking and Listening
  • To listen carefully and respond appropriately to what others have said
  • To talk clearly and confidently in different contexts
  • To use a varied vocabulary when speaking by using standard English
Reading
  • To read a range of texts fluently and accurately
  • To use expression when reading by paying close attention to the punctuation in the text
  • To use more than one strategy in reading unfamiliar words and establishing meaning
  • To show clear understanding of what is read by referring to the text when explaining views
Writing
Word Level Work
  • To identify mis-spelt words in own writing; to keep individual lists (e.g. spelling logs); to learn to spell them.
  • To use known spellings as a basis for spelling other words with similar patterns or related meanings.
  • To investigate, collect and classify spelling patterns in pluralisation.
  • To collect, and investigate the meanings and spellings of words using the following prefixes: auto, bi, trans, tele, circum.
Sentence Level Work
  • To discuss, proof-read and edit their own writing for clarity and correctness, e.g. by creating more complex sentences, using a range of connectives
  • To understand the difference between direct and reported speech
  • To understand the need for punctuation as an aid to the Reader
Text Level Work
  • To analyse the features of a good opening and compare a number of story openings.
  • To compare the structure of different stories, to discover how they differ in pace, build-up, sequence, complication and resolution.
  • To analyse and compare poetic style, use of forms and the themes of significant poets.
  • To investigate how characters are presented, referring to the text:
  • Write own playscript, applying conventions learned from reading; including production notes.

Mathematics

Counting, partitioning and calculating
  • To count from any given number and decimal steps, extending beyond zero
  • To explain what each digit represents in whole numbers and decimals with up to two places, and partition, round and order these numbers
  • To recall quickly multiplication facts up to 10 x 10 and use them to multiply pairs of multiples of 10 and 100
Securing number facts, understanding shapes
  • To identify, visualize and describe properties of rectangles, triangles, regular polygons and 3D shapes
Calculating, measuring and understanding shape
  • To interpret a reading that lies between two unnumbered divisions
  • To read timetables and time using 24-hour clock notation; use a calendar to calculate time intervals
Securing number facts, calculating, identifying relationships
  • To represent a puzzle or problem by identifying and recording the information or calculations needed

Science

Keeping Healthy
  • To understand that to stay healthy we need an adequate and varied diet
  • To understand that we need to exercise to stay healthy and maintain our muscles
  • To know the heart is a muscle that contacts regularly to pump blood around the body
  • To know that blood vessels carry blood to the heart and arteries carry blood away from the heart
  • To know how to measure their pulse rate and relate it to heart beat
  • To identify factors which affect pulse rate and make predictions about the changes
  • To present results in a line graph

History

Tudor Times and Henry VIII
  • To distinguish between wealth and poverty in the Tudor times
  • To draw conclusions about life in Tudor times
  • To explain the differences between the lives of the poor and wealthy in Tudor times
  • To gather information about Henry the VIII from portraits and written sources
  • To learn about the power and importance of a Tudor King

Design & Technology

Moving Toys – Research & Design
  • To recognise the movement of a mechanism within a toy
  • To use a cam mechanism when designing a moving part for a toy

Information Technology

Introduction to Spreadsheets
  • To enter labels and numbers into spreadsheets
  • To use the “sum” function
  • To create and use a spreadsheet to produce costing within budget

Art

Objects and Meaning
  • To collect visual and other information to help them develop their ideas
  • To question and make thoughtful observations about starting points and to explore ideas for a still-life arrangement
  • To apply their experience of materials and processes, developing their control of tools and techniques for painting
  • To select and record from first-hand observation
  • To adapt their work according to their views and describe how they might develop it further
  • To explore ideas for a still life arrangement
  • To develop their control of tools and techniques for painting and drawing
  • To sketch and paint from first hand observation
  • To adapt their work and describe how they might develop it further
  • To compare ideas, methods and approaches in their own and others work and say what they think and feel about them

Personal, Social and Health Education (PSHE)

Health
  • To know that bacteria and viruses can affect health and that following simple safe routines can reduce their spread.
  • To recognise their worth as individuals by identifying positive things about themselves
  • To know which commonly available substances and drugs are legal and illegal, their effects and risks.

Spanish

Advanced - Diario
  • Organizará sus ideas para producir un texto oral, teniendo en cuenta su realidad y sus propias experiencias.
  • Realizará un plan de exposición de sus ideas.
  • Leerá y analizará en los textos narrativos los elementos que lo conforman: narrador, personajes y acción.
  • Escribirá una narración teniendo en cuenta los elementos narrativos.
  • Empleará códigos verbales y no verbales según las circunstancias comunicativas.
Second Language - Learning vocabulary and talking
  • Identificar nuevas letras y sonidos del alfabeto español. Deletrear.
  • Presentarse utilizando los verbos ser, llamarse, tener. Saludar y despedirse.
  • Describir personas. Utilizar algunos posesivos.
  • Hablar de la familia y hacer su árbol genealógico.
  • Aprender los números del 1 al 100
  • Aprender algunas nacionalidades e idiomas
  • Reconocer los países de habla hispana
  • Hablar de existencia. Diferenciar haber/ estar.

Cultura Colombiana I

Colombian Context I
  • Locate and describe varying landforms and geographic features and explain their relationship with the ecosystem.
  • Identify and describe way regional ethnic and national cultures influence individuals´ daily lives.
  • Identify and describe selected periods and patterns of change within and across Colombian culture.
  • Use economic concepts to help explain historical and current events in Colombia.

Cultura Colombiana IIMedia 1

  • Describe and analyze the role of television as it contributes to or helps the Colombian communities.
  • Describe and analyze the role of radio as it contributes to or helps the Colombian communities.
  • Describe and analyze the role of newspaper as it contributes to or helps the Colombian communities.

Sociales

Relaciones Espaciales y Ambientales
  • Construir mapas con los elementos mínimos de la cartografía.
  • Ubicar a Colombia en un mapamundi.
  • Identificar los países que están alrededor de Colombia.
  • Diferenciar entre un paisaje natural y uno cultural.
  • Explicar la importancia de los recursos naturales.

Physical Education

Formas Jugadas Derivadas del Rugby y Handball
  • Posibilitar al niño experiencias colectivas sobre juegos derivados del rugby y handball.
  • Favorecer en los estudiantes el desarrollo de habilidades para recibir, pasar, driblar y lanzar durante la ejecución de juegos relacionados con el rugby y handball.

Music

Violin I – Twinkle Twinkle Theme in Pizzicato
  • Bowings strokes on the open strings: Four eighth notes and two quarter notes.(Variation 1)
  • Eight eighth notes (Variation 2)
Violin II – Suzuki Songs 2 and 3
  • Christmas Songs
  • Singing and clapping 4 beat rhythmic patterns.
  • Working on the correct position of the body
Choir – Learning to Sing in Good Intonation
  • Preparing for Christmas Night
  • Singing and clapping 4 beat rhythmic patterns.
  • Working on the correct position, breathing and warming up.
Percussion – Learning the C Major Scale
  • Singing and clapping 4 beat rhythmic patterns
  • Working on the correct position of the hands.
Recorder – Learning G, A, B, C, D notes on the Recorder
  • Learning the basics of breathing.
  • Singing and clapping 4 beat rhythmic patterns.
  • Working on the correct position.
Guitar – Learning the Chords of A, D and E
  • ABRSM Music theory 1
  • Learning different strommings
  • Learning the C major scale and arpeggio

Year Five - Term Two


The student should be able to:

Objective

Literacy

Speaking and Listening
  • To listen carefully and respond appropriately to what others have said
  • To talk clearly and confidently in different contexts
  • To use a varied vocabulary when speaking by using standard English
Reading
  • To read a range of texts fluently and accurately
  • To use expression when reading by paying close attention to the punctuation in the text
  • To use more than one strategy in reading unfamiliar words and establishing meaning
  • To show clear understanding of what is read by referring to the text when explaining views
Writing
Word Level Work
  • To use known spellings as a basis for spelling other words with similar patterns or related meanings.
  • To distinguish between homophones, i.e. words with common pronunciations but different spellings, e.g. eight, ate; grate, great; rain, rein, reign.
Sentence Level Work
  • Investigate word order by examining how far the order of words in sentences can be changed: which words are essential to meaning; which can be deleted without damaging the basic meaning; which words or groups of words can be moved into a different order.
  • To consolidate the basic conventions of standard English: agreement between nouns and verbs; consistency of tense and subject; avoidance of double negatives; avoidance of non-standard dialect words;
Text level Work
  • To identify and classify the features of myths, legends and fables, e.g. the moral in a fable, fantastical beasts in legends.
  • To write own versions of legends, myths and fables, using structures and themes identified in reading.
  • To identify the features of recounted texts such as sports reports, diaries, police reports
  • To read and evaluate a range of instructional texts in terms of their: purposes; organisation and layout; clarity and usefulness;
  • To discuss the purpose of note-taking and how this influences the nature of notes made.
  • To write recounts based on subject, topic or personal experiences for (a) a close friend and (b) an unknown reader, e.g. an account of a field trip, a match, a historical event.
  • To write instructional texts, and test them out, e.g. instructions for loading computers, design briefs for technology, rules for games.
  • To read a range of narrative poems.
  • To use the structures of poems read to write extensions based on these, e.g. additional verses, or substituting own words and ideas.

Mathematics

Counting, partitioning and calculating
  • To use efficient written methods to add and subtract whole numbers and decimals with up to two places
  • To use understanding of place value to multiply and divide whole numbers and decimals by 10, 100 and 1000
  • To extend mental methods for whole-number calculations
Handling data and measures
  • To answer a set of related questions by collecting, selecting and organising relevant data
  • To construct frequency tables, pictograms and bar and line graphs
Calculating, measuring and understanding shape
  • To read and plot coordinates in the first quadrant and recognise parallel and perpendicular lines in grids and shapes
  • To read, choose, use and record standard metric units to estimate and measure length, weight and capacity

Science

Life Cycles
  • To describe the process of seed dispersal
  • To consider the conditions that might affect germination and explain how to carry out a fair test
  • To explain how insects pollinate some flowers
  • To be able to explain about the life cycle of flowering plants

Geography

Mountains
  • To locate and identify mountain ranges on a map
  • To identify different mountain environments
  • To study mountain wildlife
  • To describe different weather conditions in the world and understand how these influence the way of life in the an area

Design & Technology

Moving Toys – Making & Evaluating
  • To measure and mark our accurately
  • To cut and join with accuracy
  • To use tools safely and effectively
  • To evaluate the product personally and seek evaluation from others

Information Technology

Analysing Data and Asking Questions
  • To use “and” in their searches
  • To use “or” in their searches
  • To skim read information to check its relevance and modify their search strategies.
Evaluating Information, Checking Accuracy and Questioning Plausibility
  • To check the accuracy by checking data
  • To check for anomalies using graphical representations
  • To identify and incorrect point on a line graph

Art

Containers
  • To record from first hand observation
  • To use a variety of methods and approaches to design and make a container
  • To develop their control of tools and techniques to make a container from clay
  • To adapt their work according to their views and describe how they might develop it further
  • To compare ideas, methods and approaches in their own and others work and say what they think and feel about them

Personal, Social and Health Education (PSHE)

Relationships
  • To understand that their actions affect themselves and others
  • To develop strategies for managing conflicts with friends and family

Spanish

Advanced – Biografía
  • Estética del Lenguaje: Lee comprensivamente diversos tipos de textos: descriptivos, narrativos, informativos y obra literaria entre otros.
  • Producción Textual: Participa en la creación de diferentes tipos de textos: narrativos e informativos y otros, teniendo en cuenta un propósito, y las exigencias del contexto
  • Ética de la Comunicación: Selecciona el léxico apropiado y acomoda su estilo al plan de exposición y al contexto comunicativo.
  • Estudio de la Lengua: Reconoce y emplea los elementos del estudio de la lengua dentro de un contexto oral y escrito.
Second Language - Asking and speaking
  • Expresar gustos y preferencias
  • Expresar frecuencia
  • Hablar de horario, días de la semana y meses.
  • Preguntar cantidades ¿cuánto/a…?
  • Hablar actividades en su tiempo libre
  • Hablar de las partes del cuerpo y la salud
  • Los números a partir del 100 hasta el 1000
  • Verbos irregulares.
  • Hablar de relaciones temporales: antes de, después de.

Sociales

Relaciones con la historia y la cultura // Relaciones espaciales y ambientales
  • Reconocer en mi entorno cercano las huellas que dejaron las comunidades que la ocuparon en el pasado.
  • Reconocer las creaciones que suplieron necesidades de los grupos humanos nómadas y sedentarios del pasado.
  • Identificar y describo algunas características socioculturales de las comunidades pasadas.
  • Reconocer los cambios de las comunidades
  • Explicar cómo vivían los pueblos nativos antes de la llegada de los europeos.

Cultura Colombiana I

Colombian Context 2
  • Describe and analyze the role of religion as it contributes to or helps the Colombian communities.
Social Customs and Daily Life 1
  • Compare similarities and differences in the ways groups, societies and cultures meet human needs and concerns.
  • Articulate the implications of cultural diversity, as well as cohesion, within and across the different Colombian groups.
  • Describe how people create places that reflect cultural values and ideals.

Cultura Colombiana II

Media 2
  • Show through specific examples how mass media have changed peoples´ perceptions of their social and cultural vision.
  • Seek reasonable and ethical solutions to problems that arise when the communication advances and social norms or values come into conflict.
Performing Arts 1
  • Describe and analyze the role of film as it contributes to or helps the Colombian communities.
  • Describe and analyze the role of theatre as it contributes to or helps the Colombian communities.

Physical Education

Formas Jugadas Derivadas del Voleibol
  • Posibilitar al niño experiencias colectivas sobre juegos derivados del voleibol.
  • Favorecer en los niños el desarrollo de habilidades básicas para pasar, conducir, driblar durante juegos derivados del voleibol.
  • Propiciar y estimular en el niño el diálogo y la creatividad mediante la variación y modificación a los juegos colectivos derivados del voleibol

Music

Violin I – Singing and clapping rhythmic patterns.
  • Twinkle with variation 1 and 2
  • Bowing strokes on eighth and sixteenth notes (Variation 3)
  • Singing and clapping rhythmic patterns
Violin II – ABRSM songs
  • Christmas Songs
  • Singing and clapping 5 beat rhythmic patterns.
  • Working on the correct position of the bow
Choir – Preparing for the Christmas Concert
  • Preparing for the First Communion ceremony.
  • Singing and clapping 5 beat rhythmic patterns.
  • Learning about the staff and clefs
Percussion – Playing popular and Latin songs
  • Preparing for the Christmas Concert
  • Singing and clapping 5 beat rhythmic patterns.
  • Learning about the staff and treble clef
Recorder – Learning basic songs with 5 notes
  • Singing and clapping 5 beat rhythmic patterns.
  • Preparing for the Christmas Concert
  • Learning D,E and F
  • Learning about the staff
Guitar – Learning the basic harmonic circle I, IV, V
  • Preparing for the Christmas concert
  • ABRSM Music theory 2
  • Learning the Chromatic scale
  • Learning the D major scale and arpeggio

Year Five - Term Three

The student should be able to:

Objective

Literacy

Speaking and Listening
  • To listen carefully and respond appropriately to what others have said
  • To talk clearly and confidently in different contexts
  • To use a varied vocabulary when speaking by using standard English
Reading
  • To read a range of texts fluently and accurately
  • To use expression when reading by paying close attention to the punctuation in the text
  • To use more than one strategy in reading unfamiliar words and establishing meaning
  • To show clear understanding of what is read by referring to the text when explaining views
Writing
Word Level Work
  • To use independent spelling strategies.
  • To explore spelling patterns of consonants and formulate rules: -ll in full becomes l when used as a suffix; words ending with a single consonant preceded by a short vowel double the consonant before adding -ing, etc. e.g. hummed, sitting, wetter; c is usually soft when followed by i e.g. circus, accident.
Sentence Level Work
  • To re-order simple sentences, noting the changes which are required in word order and verb forms and discuss the effects of changes.
  • To use punctuation effectively to signpost meaning in longer and more complex sentences.
  • To secure the use of the comma in embedding clauses within sentences.
Text Level Work
  • To identify and classify the features of myths, legends and fables, e.g. the moral in a fable, fantastical beasts in legends.
  • To write own versions of legends, myths and fables, using structures and themes identified in reading.
  • To read a range of explanatory texts, investigating and noting features of impersonal style
  • To plan, compose, edit and refine short non-chronological reports and explanatory texts
  • To read, rehearse and modify performance of poetry.

Mathematics

Counting, partitioning and calculating
  • To use knowledge of rounding, place value, number facts and inverse operations
  • To refine and use efficient written methods to multiply and divide
Securing number facts, understanding shapes
  • To complete patterns with up to two lines of symmetry; draw the position of the shape after a reflection or translation
Securing number facts, calculating, identifying relationships
  • To understand percentage as a number of parts in every 100 and express tenths and hundredths as percentages
  • To express a smaller whole number as a fraction of a larger one; find equivalent fractions

Science

Gases Around Us
  • To explain phenomena related to air
  • To make carefully observations of materials
  • To identify gases and explain why they are important to us
  • To understand that gases flow easily from place to place
  • To explain the difference between gases, solids and liquids
Changing State
  • To turn ides into a form that can be investigated
  • To identify trends in results
  • To be able to explain the process of condensation
  • To explain the water cycle

History or Geography

Project and presentation
  • Group research, using ICT and texts, to create an interesting project to present to the class.

Design & Technology

Biscuits
  • To develop skills in evaluating and describing food
  • To know about physical and chemical changes in food
  • To design and make biscuits by adapting a basic recipe.

Information Technology

Graphical Modelling
  • To move, rotate and re-size graphic elements
  • To use geometric tools to create objects which can be manipulated

Art

Talking Textiles
  • To look at different ways stories have been represented in art
  • To design and make a collage based on a familiar story
  • To adapt their work according to their views and describe how they might develop it further
  • To use a variety of paint techniques to achieve different effects
  • To be able to describe the way different artists have used painting techniques, colour and composition to create different moods
  • To produce a storyboard for their chosen story
  • To express opinions about the work of different artists.

Personal, Social and Health Education (PSHE)

Citizenship
  • To recognize the role of voluntary, community and pressure groups.
  • To understand what dangers there are in the community and who they can trust and go to for help
  • To know why and how rules and laws are made and enforced
  • To understand that they need to look after their money and that their future needs may be met through saving

Spanish

Advanced – Textos Narrativos
  • Narrará cuentos en forma oral y escrita.
  • Identificará las partes que constituyen la estructura narrativa de un cuento: problema y solución, la mención de protagonistas, y descripción del marco donde se desarrolla la historia.
  • Escribirá una historieta teniendo en cuenta los elementos que la constituyen.
  • Leerá la obra literaria asignada y buscará pistas, indicios en el título, la época e ilustraciones para predecir lo que lee. Relacionará esas primeras predicciones que hace con lo que leerá en la obra.
Second Language – Describing, Comparing and Writing
  • Describir lugares
  • Hablar del clima
  • Hablar del futuro: ir a infinitivo
  • Comparativos y superlativos
  • Leer y comprender cuentos y fábulas.
  • Escribir un cuento corto.

Cultura Colombiana I

Social Customs and Daily Life 2
  • Identify and interpret examples of different aspects of the social customs as dress, festivities, food, sports, etc.
  • Analyze Spaniards and mestizaje influences on people, events and elements of culture.
  • Examine the origins and continuing influence of key ideals of social class form of life, such as status, ancestors, education, etc.

Cultura Colombiana II

Performing Arts 2
  • Describe and analyze the role of music as it contributes to or helps the Colombian communities.
  • Identify and describe the basic features of the performing arts in Colombia, and identify leaders from various levels and regions.
  • Give examples and explain how performing artists attempt to achieve their cultural ideals at home and abroad.
Plastic Arts 1
  • Describe and analyze the role of plastic as it contributes to or helps the Colombian communities

Sociales

Relaciones espaciales y ambientales
  • Explicar con ejemplos qué es una necesidad básica.
  • Identificar las principales actividades productivas del ser humano.
  • Identificar las principales actividades productivas en Colombia y por regiones.

Physical Education

Formas Jugadas Derivadas del Fútbol
  • Posibilitar al niño experiencias colectivas sobre juegos derivados del fútbol.
  • Favorecer en los niños el desarrollo de habilidades básicas para pasar, conducir, driblar durante juegos derivados del fútbol.
  • Propiciar y estimular en el niño el diálogo y la creatividad mediante la variación y modificación a los juegos colectivos derivados del fútbol.

Music

Violin I – Playing all the twinkle variations
  • Bowing strokes on eighth and eighth rest (Var. 4)
  • Learning Old McDonald
Violin II – Suzuki songs 4 and 5
  • Singing and clapping 6 beat rhythmic patterns.
  • Rhythmic dictation
  • Learning about the different kinds of instruments
Choir – Preparing for the First Communion Ceremony
  • Singing two voice canons
  • Singing and clapping 6 beat rhythmic patterns
Percussion – Learning jazz songs
  • Singing and clapping 6 beat rhythmic patterns
  • Rhythmic dictation
Recorder – Playing popular and Latin songs
  • Singing and clapping 6 beat rhythmic patterns
  • Rhythmic dictation
Guitar – Learning the A major scale and arpeggio
  • Preparing for the Summer concert
  • ABRSM Music theory 3

Year Five - Term Four

The student should be able to:

Objective

Literacy

Speaking and Listening
  • To listen carefully and respond appropriately to what others have said
  • To talk clearly and confidently in different contexts
  • To use a varied vocabulary when speaking by using standard English
Reading
  • To read a range of texts fluently and accurately
  • To use expression when reading by paying close attention to the punctuation in the text
  • To use more than one strategy in reading unfamiliar words and establishing meaning
  • To show clear understanding of what is read by referring to the text when explaining views
Writing
Word Level Work
  • To spell unstressed vowels in polysyllabic words, e.g. company,portable, poisonous interest description, carpet, sector, freedom,extra, etc..
  • To recognise the spelling and meaning of the prefixes: in-,im-, ir-, il-, pro-, sus-.
Sentence Level Work
  • To understand how writing can be adapted for different audiences and purposes, e.g. by changing vocabulary and sentence structures.
  • To use punctuation marks accurately in complex sentences.
  • To use connectives to link clauses within sentences and to link sentences in longer texts.
Text Level Work
  • To investigate a range of texts from different cultures, considering patterns of relationships, social customs, attitudes and beliefs
  • To identify the point of view from which a story is told and how this affects the reader’s response.
  • To read and evaluate letters, e.g. from newspapers, magazines, intended to inform, protest, complain, persuade, considering (i) how they are set out (ii) how language is used, e.g. to gain attention, respect, manipulate.
  • From reading, to collect and investigate use of persuasive devices: e.g. words and phrases
  • To write a commentary on an issue on paper or screen, (e.g.as a news editorial, leaflet), setting out and justifying a personal view; to use structures from reading to set out and link points,e.g. numbered lists, bullet points.

Mathematics

Securing number facts, understanding shapes
  • To use a calculator to solve problems including decimals or fractions
Calculating, measuring and understanding shape
  • To solve one-step and two-step problems involving whole numbers and decimals and all four operations.
  • To draw and measure lines to the nearest millimetre; measure and calculate the perimeter of polygons; use a formula for the area of a rectangle.
Securing number facts, calculating, identifying relationships
  • To use sequences to scale numbers up or down; solve problems involving proportions of quantities
  • To find fractions using division and percentages of numbers and quantities

Science

Changing Sound
  • To generalize that sounds are produced when objects vibrate
  • To identify the types of materials through which sounds travels
  • To plan a test to find out which materials muffle sounds well
  • To know that pitch is how ‘high’ or ‘low’ a sound is
  • To suggest how to alter the pitch of an instrument
Earth, Sun and Moon
  • To be able to describe the Sun, Earth and Moon and their relative sizes and shapes
  • To be able to explain how the Earth moves
  • To present times of sunrise and sunset on a graph and to recognise patterns
  • To explain how the Earth takes a year to make one orbit of the sun
  • To describe the different appearance of the moon over 28 days

History

Victorian Britain & Children
To identify Queen Victoria and place the Victorian period on a time line
To collect information from a range of sources and draw conclusions about the Victorian period
To identify aspects of life for Victorian Children

Design & Technology

Musical Instruments
  • To investigate and evaluate a range of musical instruments in order to learn how they function
  • To draw on ideas investigated to design and make a musical instrument based on a specific purpose
  • To develop a clear plan and suggest alternative methods if the first attempt fails

Information Technology

Controlling Devices
  • To control simple devices
  • To use simple procedures to control more than one output.
Monitoring Environmental Conditions and Changes
  • To attach a sensor to a device connected to a computer and take readings
  • To set variables.

Art

Personal Project

  • To make a proposal and initial design for a personal project
  • To explore qualities of known materials and select appropriate ones to develop project
  • To write a text explaining their work.
  • To produce a final 3-D or 2-D piece based on their original idea
  • To collect visual and other information to help development of ideas
  • To investigate and combine visual and tactile qualities of materials and processes and to match these qualities to the purpose of the work

Personal, Social and Health Education (PSHE)

Relationships/Growing up
  • To think about how they have changed since they were babies – physically and mentally
  • To understand the body changes that occur during puberty
  • To know that there are also behaviour changes that occur during puberty and how these might affect our relationships with family and friends

Spanish

Advanced - Teatro
  • Leerá e interpretará diversos tipos de textos literarios: cuentos, poemas y obras teatrales.
  • Comparará textos narrativos, líricos y dramáticos teniendo en cuenta algunos de sus elementos constitutivos.
  • Reconocerá el poema como una forma literaria con características definidas. Identificará en sus versos y estrofas la rima del poema.
  • Redactará versos y guiones de teatro en talleres de producción y creación literaria.
  • Producirá un texto oral, teniendo en cuenta la entonación, la articulación y la organización de las ideas que requiere la situación comunicativa. (Declamación o Guión teatral)
  • Leerá la obra literaria asignada y buscará pistas, indicios en el título, la época e ilustraciones para predecir lo que lee. Relacionará esas primeras predicciones que hace con lo que leerá en la obra.
Second Language – Reading and Doing Presentations
  • Identificar diferentes tipos de texto.
  • Lectura y análisis de textos
  • Buscar información para una exposición.
  • Preparar una exposición.
  • Presentar una exposición.

Cultura Colombiana I

Social Customs and Daily Life 3
  • Explain the need for agreements within the different social classes for the best quality of life in all the country.
  • Differentiate among various forms of cultural expressions according to the cultural regions.
  • Examine strategies designed to strengthen the “common good”, which consider a range of options for Colombians citizen action.

Cultura Colombiana II

Plastic Arts 2
  • Describe and analyze the role of photography as it contributes to or helps the Colombian communities.
  • Describe and analyze the role of architecture as it contributes to or helps the Colombian communities.
  • Identify and describe the basic features of the plastic arts in Colombia, and identify leaders from various levels and regions.
  • Give examples and explain how plastic artists attempt to achieve their cultural ideals at home and abroad.

Sociales

Relaciones Ético-Políticas
  • Reconocer que todo juego posee unas reglas que se deben seguir.
  • Propone normas al interior de su salón de clase para facilitar la convivencia.
  • Identificar en la Constitución Nacional de Colombia normas que nos ayudan a vivir mejor.

Physical Education

Formas Jugadas Derivadas del Voleibol
  • Permitir al estudiante experiencias colectivas sobre juegos derivados del voleibol.
  • Favorecer en los niños el desarrollo habilidades básicas para pasar y golpear un balón con los brazos y dedos durante un juego derivado del voleibol.
  • Facilitar y estimular en el niño de diálogo y la creatividad mediante la variación y modificación de juegos colectivos derivados del voleibol.

Music

Violin I – Preparing for the summer concert
  • Learning the G major scale
  • Learning the son “Go Tell Aunt Rhody”
  • Learning the song “Happy birthday”
Violin II – Preparing for the summer concert
  • Learning the song “Allegro”
  • Learning the song “Perpetual Motion”
  • Learning C Major scale
Choir – Preparing for the Summer Concert
  • Rhythmic dictation
  • Singing in two and three voices
Percussion – Preparing for the summer concert
  • Rhythmic dictation
  • Learning about the different kinds of instruments
Recorder – Preparing for the summer concert
  • Rhythmic dictation
  • Learning about the different kinds of instruments
Guitar – Learning the circle I,VI,II,V
  • Preparing for the final exam
  • ABRSM Music theory 4
 
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