Curriculum Overview
Year 5 Curriculum Overview 2021-2022
| Autumn 1 (7 weeks) | Autumn 2 (7 weeks) | Spring 1 (6 weeks) | Spring 2 (6 weeks) | Summer 1 (6weeks) | Summer 2 (7 weeks) |
English: units | 1Entertain:Narrative Myths and Legends
2 Describe Non-chronological Report | 1 Explain Complaints
2 Persuade: Debate | 1 Entertain:Narrative Poetry
2 Socialise: Letter Writing | 1 Entertain: Visual Literacy
2 Recount Journalistic Writing
| 1 Entertain:Narrative Playscript Shakespeare
2 Recount: Indirect Biography (History link) | 1 Entertain:Narrative Fairy Tales
2.Persuade Job Application
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Key texts (English) | The Adventures of Odysseus
The Iliad (children’s version) | The Story of the Blue Planet | The Highwayman | Oranges in No Man’s Land | Hamlet | Tatterhood- Nordic myth Grimms Fairy Tales
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Maths | Number: place value Number: addition and subtraction Statistics | Number: multiplication and division Measurement: perimeter and area | Number: multiplication and division Number: fractions | Number: fractions Number: decimals and percentages | Number: decimals Geometry: properties of shape | Geometry: position and direction Measurement: converting units Measurement: volume
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Science | Materials: Properties and changes of materials | Materials: Properties and changes of materials | Earth and Space | Forces | Climate Change and Sustainability (Geography/Inter-disciplinary links) | Living things and their habitats: Life cycles – including humans (changes as they grow)
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History | Ancient Greece |
| Anglo Saxons and Scots | Vikings | Monarchy Queen Elizabeth II Aethelflaed
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Geography |
| Our Living Planet Positional concepts (tropics, latitude, longitude, hemisphere); physical geography-climate zones, biomes
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| Scandinavia Mapping, key environmental regions, physical and human characteristics; compare UK with another region |
Computing | Online Safety
Computing and Networks | Programming | Creating Media Video editing | Data and Information Fact file database | Creating Media Vector Drawing | Programming B Selection in quizzes |
Design and Technology | Structures Frame Structures Project: Bird box | Structures Frame Structures Project: Bird box | Electrical Systems Complex switches and circuits Project: alarm | Electrical Systems Complex switches and circuits Project: Electrical board game | Food Celebrating culture and seasonality Project: Soup | Food Celebrating culture and seasonality Project: biscuit |
Music | How does music bring us together? Getting Started with Music Tech
| How does music connect us with our past? Emotions and Musical Styles | How Does Music Make the World a Better Place? | How Does Music Teach Us About our Community? | How Does Music Shape our Way of Life? | How Does Music connect Us with the Environment? |
Art | Drawing | Painting | Printmaking | Collage | Textiles | 3D Sculpture |
PSHE/ safeguarding
| Physical & Mental Health | Keeping Safe | Relationships: Friends & Family | Respectful & safe Relationships | Living in the Wider World: Financial Literacy | Health & Wellbeing: Ourselves- Growing & Changing |
RE | Why do some people think God exists? | What does it mean to be a Muslim in Britain today? (part 1) | What matters most to Christians and Humanists? | What would Jesus do? (Can we live by the values of Jesus in the twenty-first century?) | Who is a Sikh and what do they believe? | If God is everywhere, why go to a place of worship? Possible RE week or fortnight with a focus on a visit to the church and the mandir |
PE | Invasion Games Football /Basketball/
| Invasion Games Hockey/Tag Rugby | Gymnastics/ Dance Mindfulness | Athletics | Strike and Field Games Cricket | Net and Wall Games Tennis |
French | Vocabulary Meet and Greet Numbers to 60 Date Seasons Grammar Quelle est la date aujourd’hui? Compound sentences adverbs | Vocabulary Sports/hobbies Physical activity Toys and household items Grammar Numbers in games Culture Petanque Christmas traditions Carol singing | Vocabulary The high street Grammar Sentence building
| Vocabulary Food Ordering food Grammar Pronunciation Connectives -mais/aussi Culture Food in France | Vocabulary Time clothing location weather Grammar Quelle heure est-il ? Adjectives J’habite….
| Vocabulary Transport and journey planning Culture Stereotypes and misconceptions Learning another language Where is French spoken ? Tour de France Bastille Day |
School Events | Class Charters Black History Month | Anti Bullying Week Children in Need Winter Festivals |
| Red Nose Day | QEII Platinum Jubilee |
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