Year Group: 5
Autumn 1 – 7 weeks
Unit Title: It’s All Greek to Me!
We will be focusing on the legacy of the Ancient Greeks.
What do we use today that came from the Greeks?
Entry point: What do we already know about the Ancient
Greeks? What do we still use today?
Class Teacher: Mrs Platt
Autumn 2 – 7 weeks
Unit Title: It’s All Greek to Me!
Exit point: Writing display of Aesop’s fables and reading
best examples to reception children
Outcome: To write their own Aesop’s fable, using
knowledge of the setting and culture
Exit point: Ancient Greek day, including a Greek workshop
Entry point: Hampshire Illustrated Book award launch
Outcome: To understand the developments that the Ancient
Greeks made and identify features in our own world that are
part of their legacy. How would our lives be different if the
Ancient Greeks had never existed?
Literacy:
Key Text:
Literacy:
Key Text:
Fiction:
Prometheus and
Pandora
Prometheus and Pandora
Fiction : Myths/ Dilemma
Stories
Information texts
‘How to write instructions’
‘How to write a Greek myth’
‘Have a go at… Chocolate Chip
Ice Cream’
UNCRC Article(s):
Children look at a modern retelling
of the King Midas myth, focusing
on how a dilemma can be the
driving force of a narrative. The
children create characters of
different status and empathise with
the main character’s dilemma.
They compose an ending to the
story through a diary entry written
in role as the main character.
Greek myths
Children analyse the
importance of difference
characters to the
development of the story
and examine the role of
the narrator as the story
teller. Differences between
oral and written story
telling are explored and
used to support the
children’s own writing and
story telling.
Non fiction:
Writing instructions
Children look at the
features of instructional
writing. They will analyse,
evaluate and write
instructions. The children
will write their own
instructions for making
sherbet and evaluate their
peer’s work.
Maths:
Understanding of place
value to 1 000 000, word
problems and calculations,
fractions, decimals and
percent.
Mental maths:
Times tables to 12x,
practise mental maths
tests to be done weekly.
History: The Ancient
Greek Legacy
This will form our main
topic for the term and will
be based on the elements
of our modern day world
that stemmed from the
Ancient Greek civilization,
such as the alphabet,
democracy, architecture
etc.
Science: Sound
We will learn about how
sound is made and how
sound travels. Children will
look at how sound travels
through different materials
and how best to muffle
sound.
Article 29: Your education should
help you use and develop your
talents and abilities. It should also
help you learn to live peacefully,
protect the environment and
respect other people.
P4C Stimuli:
Do we all have power over
someone or something?
Is life one big story?
Non-fiction: Recounts
This unit links to the fiction through
exploring the difference between a
first person recount, such as a
diary, and a newspaper report of
the same event. Children compose
their own newspaper report based
on a real-life rescue and adapt it
for the radio.
Hampshire Illustrated Books
UNCRC Article(s):
Article 29: Your education
should help you use and
develop your talents and
abilities. It should also help you
learn to live peacefully, protect
the environment and respect
other people.
P4C Stimuli:
Are we different people in
different situations?
Is there always hope in any
situation?
Maths:
Is being famous the same as
being important?
Number and place value,
multiplication and division.
Mental maths:
What makes us who we are?
Should we always do exactly as
we are told?
Tables up to 12x at speed. Mental
maths tests weekly
Key Questions:
What do we want to achieve this
year?
How would our world be different
without the Greek influence?
How did the Greeks change our
world?
Community/International
Involvement:
Hampshire Illustrated Book
Awards
Key Questions:
Science: Earth and Space
Children will study our planets and
universe. We will use our maths
skills to compare the size of the
Earth, Moon and Sun.
What have we learnt from space
travel?
If you could travel in space,
where would you go and what
would you do?
Art and Design/DT: Greek
masks
We will design and create our own
Greek masks to use in performing
our plays.
R.E: Christmas – The magi
and their gifts.
We will look at the gifts brought by
the wise men and what they
symbolised.
Games/PE: Dance – Space
dance
We will learn the moves to a
‘Space Dance’, come up with our
own moves, and choreograph a
dance to perform to the class.
Community/International
Involvement:
Hampshire Illustrated Book
Awards.
Greek workshop
PSHE: Goals and
targets.
The children begin the
year by setting their goals
and targets for the year
and thinking about what
they need to do to achieve
them.
Art and Design/DT:
Create a music
instrument, linking with our
Science topic on Sound.
MFL: Nouns, forming
sentences
Children begin to create sentence
using the vocabulary they have
learnt so far. We will also look at
pronouns.
History: Ancient Greek legacy
continued
Geography: linked to History.
We will look at maps of the Ancient
Greek world and compare it to
modern day maps.
ICT: We are Cryptographers
R.E: Diwali –
Children will learn how
Diwali is celebrated and
why. They will look at the
Hindu faith, including the
story of Rama and Sita,
and some of the customs
associated with Hinduism.
Games/PE: Dance –
Greek Dance
We will imagine moves
that a Greek warrior might
make. Once we have
learnt the moves to a
Greek dance, we will start
to choreograph our own.
MFL:
Children will improve their
vocabulary on months and
days, as well as learn
numbers and the alphabet.
ICT: We are game
developers.
The children will use the
program Scratch to create
their own game. This unit
will also include discussion
on safety when playing
computer games.
Children learn how information can
be communicated in secret over
open channels, including the
internet. They learn about how to
check the security certificates of
encrypted websites. We also look
at what makes a secure password.