Fullwood Primary School

Years 5 and 6

Our learning journey for the Spring term is…

The Boy Who Lived

The Boy Who Lived

Who is Harry Potter?

How does JK Rowling

portray her

characters? How do we

know what she wants

the reader to feel

about her characters?

Welcome to Hogwarts

How would we feel

arriving at Hogwarts?

What vocabulary

would we used to

describe our

emotions?

Professors

How can we be

effective as a writer

when writing character

descriptions? What

language does JK

Rowling use? What

other techniques does

she use?

Grounds of Hogwarts

How does JK Rowling

use the techniques to

create characters,

settings and plots?

What can we see as

we walk around

Hogwarts?

Fantastic Beasts

What are the stages

of an animal’s life

cycle? What

characteristics would

our animals need to

survive their

environments?

Man of Two Faces

How can we use all that

we have learnt about JK

Rowling to write a

narrative of our own?

What does it take to be

a novelist?

Harry Potter novels.

Tales of Beedle the Bard.

Fiction books on electricity

and circuits.

How to make models and

DIY.

Fantastic Beast and Where

to Find them.

Fiction books on animal life cycles or evolution.

Your own story of

adventure and magic

Postcards home from

Hogwarts explaining what

school life is like

A biography of a famous

Witch or Wizard

Research and create a fact

file about your own

chosen topic

Harry Potter

films.

BBC

documentaries

on animal life

cycles and how

animals are

adapted to their

environments.

BBC Bitesize.

Explore how

circuits work

and how a light

switch works in

a home.

Explore animals

and how they

are suited to

their

environments at

the Zoo or at

home.

Visit Harry

Potter world.

Visit a Zoo.

Visit the

Science

Museum.

Visit the

Natural History

Museum.

READ WRITE

What can you do at home to help?

DO WATCH

EXPLORE

Some of the new vocabulary we will be

introducing this term…

Conversations to be had with your child….

What they have been learning about at school -

and can they teach you what they have been learning about!

How they are enjoying the books they are reading and sharing stories together.

What it would be like to have a career as a novelist.

Looking at how electricity works around the home and how circuits work.

Discussions on animal life cycles and how

different animals are suited to various environments.

Some of the key questions we are hoping to

answer this term …

What does it take to be a novelist?

How can we become a successful author?

What features must we include to write a

narrative?

How does our spelling and punctuation learning

help us when writing?

How do we create and manipulate a circuit?

What components must we used to complete

various tasks?

How does our understanding of electricity help us

create a working model of a street?

What life cycles do various animals go through?

How are animals adapted to their environments?

Why do offspring sometimes look like their

parents?

What is evolution?

How do we know what came before us?

This term we will be thinking scientifically about:

Electricity and Light: Use the idea that light travels in straight lines to explain

why shadows have the same shape as the objects that cast them, and to predict

the size of shadows when the position of the light source changes.

Use recognised symbols when representing a simple circuit in a diagram.

Living things: Recognise that living things produce offspring of the same kind,

but normally offspring vary and are not identical to their parents.

Recognise that living things have changed over time and that fossils provide

information about living things that inhabited the Earth millions of years ago.

Identify how animals and plants are adapted to suit their environment in different

ways and that adaptation may lead to evolution.