Year 5 Autumn Term

Anglo-Saxons - Autumn 1
 

The topic will begin with a visit from a real life Anglo-Saxon! The children will be mesmerised as the Anglo-Saxon visitor talks to them about the cause and effect of migration and invasion, discussing and seeing what weapons were used by the people at the time and taking part in some role play activities. 

 

Big and strong, powerful and brave, the Saxons wave their battle axes and brandish their swords as they begin to invade Britain’s shores. Sail back to the Dark Ages, where battles were rife and fear reigned. Find out about the lives of the Saxons, including how they lived and where they came from.

 

Children will be part of a virtual tour of the Staffordshire Hoard. Here, they will become historians themselves and use historical terminology to describe what was found.

 

At the end of the project, we’ll reflect on what it would have been like to be a child during these troubled times. They will learn that children have not always had the same rights as they do today. 

 
 
In science, children will look at the Earth and Space. In this unit of learning children will investigate the movement of the Earth, and other planets, relative to the Sun in the solar system. Pupils will explore the movement of the Moon relative to the Earth. Children will use the idea of the Earth’s rotation to explain day and night and the apparent movement of the sun across the sky. They will investigate the phases of the moon. They will investigate at what times the sun does set and rise at different points in the year?
 
By the end of this science topic, pupils will be able to describe the movement of the Earth, and other planets, relative to the Sun in the solar system, describe the movement of the Moon relative to the Earth, describe the Sun, Earth and Moon as approximately spherical bodies, use the idea of the Earth’s rotation to explain day and night and the apparent movement of the sun across the sky.