Year 5

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Subject 

Autumn

Spring

Summer

Reading (including literature)

  • The Railway Children

  • ‘The Highwayman’ (Poem)

  • The Tempest

  • The Hobbit J.R.R. Tolkien*

  • Chip the Glasses and Crack the Plates’ and ‘Far Over the Misty Mountains’ (from The Hobbit) (Poem)

Writing

  • Writing, punctuation and spelling in Year 5 regularly revisits the coverage from Years 1-4.

  • Relative clauses and pronouns: who, which, where, when, that. 

  • Subordinate clauses and subordinating conjunctions.

  • Spelling curriculum mapped against national curriculum expectations. 

  • Present perfect tense

  • Past perfect tense

  • Developing use of complex sentence

  • Adverbials of time, place, number, degree

  • Colons for scripts and to start a list. 
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  • Spelling curriculum mapped against national curriculum expectations. 

  • Developing the use of colons. 

  • Past, present and future progressive tense. 

  • Apostrophes for plural possession. 

  • Spelling curriculum mapped against national curriculum expectations. 

Maths

  • Place value

  • Calculation 

  • Statistics

  • Fractions, Decimal and Percentages

  • Geometry 

  • Measurement

  • Place Value

History

  • The rise of Islam 

  • Anglo Saxon England

  • The Vikings

  • England and the Vikings

  • Norman Conquest

  • Local History

Geography

  • Oceans

  • Tectonic Hazards

  • Agriculture & Fairtrade

  • Tropical Rainforests 

  • Population

  • Antarctica 

RE

  • Beliefs & Worldviews: Christianity

  • Morality & Action: Christianity

  • Christianity

  • Islam

  • Islam: A way of living

  • How to ‘read’ a church & how to ‘read’ a mosque

Science & Computing

  • Space Orbits

  • Force and Motion Part 2

  • Biology: Anatomy and Physiology

  • Chemistry: Changes of materials

  • Python programming book

  • Biology: Life Cycles

Music

  • The Entertainer (Scott Joplin)

  • Contrary Motion - Philip Glass

  • Revising/introducing knowledge of instruments

Art

  • Formal Elements

  • Drawing

  • Printing

  • Sculpture

  • Mixed Media

PSHE & RSE
  • Team relationships
  • British values
  • Be yourself 
  • Health and wellbeing
  • Money matters
  • Aiming high

PE
  • Gymnastics
  • Hockey
  • Dodgeball
  • Basketball
  • Athletics
  • Dance