Curriculum Contexts 2015-2016
Year 5
Subject
Hook
Context
Title
Science
Geography
Autumn 1
Trip to Planetarium
To scale solar system
Rocket Day
Film: Fly Me To the Moon
May the Force be With You
Earth & Space
Movement of Earth + other planets in
solar system. Movement of moon.
Describe E, S and M as spheres. Earth’s
rotation= day + night.
Forces
Gravity
Air resistance
Autumn 2
Saxon law visit
Dress up day
Spring 1 & 2
Mayan food
tasting/trade game
Sacks on Invaders
Marvellous Mayans
Properties & Changes of
Materials
Compare and group materials
based on properties.
Dissolving. S,L,G and separating
(sieving/filtering)
Get evidence from tests for uses of
different materials.
Reversible/irreversible.
New materials formed.(irreversible
Eg burning or bicarb of soda)
Forces recap, plus levers and
pullies
(Link to Mayans)
LK identify the position and
significance of latitude, longitude,
Equator, Northern Hemisphere,
southern Hemisphere, the Tropics
of Cancer & Capricorn, Artic and
Antarctic Circle, the
Prime/Greenwich Meridian and
time zones (including day and
night)
Summer 1
Trip to Jenner’s
Field/Viking
workshop (Brave
DVD)
Invaders and Raiders
Summer 2
Carnival scene to begin or
finish with
Olympics 2016 celebrations
Nuts about Brazil!
Living Things & Habitat
Animals inc humans
Describe different life-cycles
eg. Mammals, birds, insect and
frog. Describe reproduction of
plants and animals.
Animals as Humans
Changes in humans as they
develop into old age, (puberty
,time-line, gestation times in
diff mammals)
The Americas
LK locate the world’s countries, using
maps to focus on North America,
concentrating on their environmental
regions, key physical and human
characteristics countries and major cities.
Brazil
PK understand the geographical
similarities a differences through the
study of human and physical geography
in a region within North or South America
LK locate the world’s countries, using
maps to focus on…South America
concentrating on their environmental
regions, key physical and human
characteristics, countries and major cities
History
Anglo Saxons and Scots
Settlements AD 400 to AD 789
Roman withdrawal
Anglo Saxon and Scots invasions
Settlements: village life, place
names and Christian conversion
(Canterbury, Iona, Lindisfarne)
The Mayans
Contrasting world civilisation AD
900
A study of how Mayan culture,
beliefs and life contrasted with
British life in the same period
Vikings
Invasion of England AD 189 to
AD 1066
Viking raids
Resistance by Alfred the Great
and Athelstan
Danegeld
Anglo Saxons laws and justice
Edward the Confessor
Battle of Hastings
Computing
PE
Programming
Use a variable to increase programming possibilities
Handling Data
Talk about mistakes in data and suggest how it could be checked
Multimedia
Select, use and combine the appropriate technology tools to create effects that
will have an impact on others
Technology in our Lives
Describe different parts of the Internet e.g. how information is stored
e-Safety
Explain why I need to protect my computer or device from harm
Programming
Use logical reasoning to detect and
debug mistakes in a program.
Handling Data
Present data in an appropriate way
Multimedia
Select, use and combine the
appropriate technology tools to
create effects that will have an
impact on others
e-Safety
Know that anything I post online
can be seen, used and may affect
others.
Programming
Decompose a problem into smaller parts to design an algorithm for a
specific outcome and use this to write a program.
Technology in our Lives
Use a search engine to find appropriate information and check its reliability
Multimedia
Use text, photo, sound and video editing tools to refine my work
e-Safety
Explain the need to protect myself and my friends and the best ways to do
this, including reporting concerns to an adult.
Games unit 3
Invasion, implement and kicking
Gym unit T
Bridges
Games unit 1
Net wall games
Games unit 2
Invasion, handling
Gym unit W
Spinning and Turning
Dance
Space (Rubbish)
Gym unit U
Flight
Gym unit V
Functional Use of the Limbs
Dance
What a Card! (?)
Dance
Vikings (City Life)
Art
Abstract space drawing inspired by the
artist Peter Thorpe
Clay brooches continued and Zen
tangles – Mayan gods
Viking Art using printing
techniques
Rousseau – jungle paintings
MFL
Oracy / Literacy / Inter-cultural
Understanding
Where French is spoken / Names of
continents and countries / Introductions /
Instructions / Pets
Anglo Saxon inspired clay
brooches
Exploration of the find at Sutton
Hoo, observational drawing,
design
Oracy / Literacy / Inter-cultural
Understanding
Alphabet / Numbers to 60 / date /
weather / Christmas
Music
DT
RE
Names of animals, different
stages of life etc.
Samba
Rocket making
Christianity
What do Christians believe God is like?
Christianity
What is Church?
Why is light an important sign at
Christmas?
Tortilla making
Catapults
Spring 1
Additional Study Unit
What does it mean to be a Sikh?
Spring 2
Christianity
Birth and Belonging – How do
Christians celebrate milestones in
life?
How do we know what happened
at Easter?
PSHE
Amazon Rainforest making
Hinduism
What does it mean to be
Hindu?
What is Hinduism’s Holy Book?
Hinduism
Do Hindu’s believe in one God?
Additional Study Unit
How did it all begin?