Spring 1 – MTP - Year 5 and 6
Title: Kings and Queens
Timescale: 6 weeks
Rationale: The children will gain an understanding of the changes in the monarchy over time and who the main characters were. They will understand who is in our
present royal family and the order of succession.
The Big Questions: Who were the key monarchs in the UK, how are they related and how has the monarchy changed over time?
Hook: Create an interactive display of the monarchs showing the houses they belong to and their succession.
Take-Away Task: The children will pick a royal house and present information about the monarchs and how they are related to each other.
Educational Visits/Global/Cultural Link: Carisbrooke Castle and Osborne
Main Subjects Covered: History
RE Topic for the Half Term: The Magi – prophecy, interpretation and faith and Eid – ul – Fitr and Ramadan – sacrifice, submission, Islam and ritual
Science Topic for the Half Term: Evolution and Inheritance Biology
PSHE/SMSC Link: How our country has evolved through different monarchs.
Link to the Value: Respect – how do we show respect for people in authority over us?
Spring 1 – MTP - Year 5 and 6
WEEK 1
Numeracy
WEEK 2
1. Place value and addition
of decimals
2. Coordinates and statistics
WEEK 3
WEEK 4
3. Mental x and division and
4. Fractions, decimals,
written x
percentages and mean
Genre fiction
Literacy
Short by Kevin Crossley Holland
SPAG
Adverbials of time, place and number; using elaborated
language of description, including expanded noun phrases,
adjectives, adverbials and a variety of subordinate clauses,
including relative clauses; using semi-colons to mark boundary
Spelling
between independent clauses.
Science
Essential books:
Mr William Shakespeare’s Plays by Marcia Williams
Arguments for and against use of CCTV cameras (provided)
Grammar includes:
Grammar includes:
Using dialogue, differences between spoken and written
Dialogue, direct/indirect speech punctuation, reported speech;
using of passive form to present information; using semi-
informal speech and writing, using subjunctive forms; using
colons and dashes to mark boundaries between independent
commas to clarify meaning
clauses; using commas to clarify meaning
Offspring
Session E
Session F
Session G
Session B
Session D
Darwin, Wallace and Mendel
Plant adaptation
Animal adaptation
Mary Anning
Evolution
The Magi – prophecy, interpretation and faith
Who is in our royal family
today? Who is in the line of
succession?
Geography
speech, punctuating to indicate direct speech; formal and
Changes over time
RE
Spreadsheets
Session H
Advantages and
disadvantages
Databases and spreadsheets in different contexts
BIBLE EXPLORERS and Eid – ul – Fitr and Ramadan – sacrifice, submission, Islam and ritual
Ordering and sorting
Saxon and Norman
Plantagenet, Lancaster and
monarchs into their houses.
monarchs
York monarchs
Tudor and Stuart monarchs
How did the United Kingdom come to be? Which countries did each monarch rule over and why?
Blue
Sentence building: animals, likes and dislikes, colours, numbers
Green
Sentence building: getting to school, transport, countries
Spanish
PSHE
volume
Essential books:
Session C
Databases
6. Perimeter, area and
fractions
Session A
Computing
History
5. Written division,
multiplying and dividing
Argument and debate
Grammar includes:
Word Level
WEEK 6
Drama (Shakespeare)
Essential books:
Guided Reading
WEEK 5
Planned by Nickie Jones
Hanoverian and Windsor
monarchs
Spring 1 – MTP - Year 5 and 6
Music
Create a fanfare for a royal entrance
Art and Design
Royal Portraits
PE
Stars Hide Your Fires
Skills-Invasion Games-Hockey
Gymnastics-Flight, using apparatus, twisting and turning, curling and stretching.