Year 5 Curriculum overview
Minehead Middle School
Topic
Art & design
Autumn i
Autumn ii
Spring i
Spring ii
Summer i
The Victorians
India
Ancient Greece
Energy
South Africa
WILLIAM MORRIS and the Arts &
Crafts movement
(observational drawing from
nature)
Raja Ravi Varma – Great Artists
in History and understand
historical and cultural
development
Class Charter /Target setting
Citizenship
Circle Time – What makes a
good friend?
Design &
technology
Food
technology
Textiles
English
Drama
content
Emergency and 999 calls
Getting on and Bullying
Stereotypes and discrimination
Coasts
Mixing the Seas - Monet
Keeping Safe
Record of Achievement
Apartheid.
Greek Architecture – Clay Work.
African Masks
Biscuits
Victorian Poetry.
Recount – Diary Recount of a
Victorian School Day.
Railway Debate
Instructions –. How to make
biscuits.
The Ramayana
Non-Chronological Reports
Myths and Legends
Going down a Victorian Mine
The Ramayana
Myths and Legends
VICTORIANS - The British Empire.
INDIA – Location, physical
features, population and the
culture of the country.
VICTORIANS – Childhood,
Minehead.
India – The Raj and Ghandi
Ancient Greece
Basics of game design
Using Kodu and TouchDevelop
to complete challenges to
understand the basics of
programming and designing a
game.
Ancient Greece Challenge
In teams, design, create and
merchandise a game based
around a Greek myth.
Geography
History
LS Lowry (Great Artists in History
and understand historical and
cultural development).
Summer ii
Computing
Introduction to the network and
Moodle.
Searching skills.
William Morris wallpaper design
(graphics)
Maths
A range of topics including:
Place Value
Addition & Subtraction
Decimals, addition and money
Area and Perimeter
Properties of Shape
Shape & Symmetry
Shape & Data
Mental Multiplication and Division
Multiplication & Division
Fraction, percentage and ratios
Place value, addition and subtraction.
Addition & Subtraction
Time and data
Measures
How To Live Forever
Wind Farms – Formal Persuasive
Letter.
ENERGY - Energy Sources and
their sustainability.
School Kitchen Challenge
Collect data to help design a
new menu, gather costs and
design menus and logos to
rebrand it.
A range of topics including:
Place Value
Addition & Subtraction
Measurement & Statistics
Multiplication & Division
Measure & Data
Co-ordinates and Line Graphs
Co-ordinates and Statistics
Fractions
Fractions and Decimals
Written Division; Multiplying and Dividing Fractions
Algebra
Perimeter, Area and Volume
Addition & Subtraction
Time, Position & Direction
Journey to Jo Burg
African Savannah Poetry
The Monk and the Fish
The Highway Man
Changing Minehead SeaFront
Debate
Journey to Jo Burg
The Monk and the Fish
The Highway Man
SOUTH AFRICA - Where is South
Africa? What is it like? Energy
Types What is the population of
South Africa? What is the main
source of income?
SOUTH AFRICA - The slave trade.
The development of the
segregation in South Africa. The
End of Apartheid.
South Africa Project
Finding reliable information from
the web. Creating an
information booklet and a
presentation.
COASTS – The physical features
of the British coastline.
COASTS – The changing coast
through history.
Welcome to Year 5 Project
Collect information about Year
5 to provide to new Year 5
pupils and parents.
A range of topics including:
Place value
Number, place value and time
Addition and subtraction
Number, place value, subtraction, area and perimeter
Multiplication, division and percentages
Measurement and data
Area, perimeter and co-ordinates
Angles and Polygons
Geometry and data
Addition, subtraction and money
Fractions and Subtraction
SAT’s
Place value and sequences
Mental multiplication, written division and ratio
Year 5 Curriculum overview
Minehead Middle School
Functional Maths
Place Value, Subtraction, Scaling, Ratio & Percentages
French
Introductions, Name, Alphabet,
Age, Birthday.
Numbers, Days, Colours,
Months, French Christmas
Carols.
Music
African Drumming – Pupils will
study cyclic rhythmic patterns
Keyboard Skills – Pupils will learn
basic keyboard skills
5AE and 5TH:
PE Inductions
Multiskills
Tag Rugby
5AE and 5TH:
Football
Netball
Gymnastics
5AM, 5SG and 5JB:
PE Inductions
Football
Hi-5 Netball
Victorian Scientists
Alfred Wallace
Florence Nightingale
Isambard Kingdom Brunel
Humans as Animals
Human development
5AM, 5SG and 5JB:
Tag Rugby
Gymnastics
Multiskills
India
Earth & Space
The Sun & Moon
Day & Night
Seasons
PE
Science
PSHE (Personal,
Fractions, Decimals & percentages
Calculation (all four operations, mental, written and calculator
Family and Pets.
Personal and physical
descriptions.
Where you live, nationalities,
countries.
Food, weather, cultural
activities.
Federation Project – Pupils will
learn a variety of songs for a
performance
5AE and 5TH:
Cross Country
OAA
Federation Project - Pupils will
learn a variety of songs for a
performance
5AE and 5TH:
Dance
Hockey
Song Writing – Students will learn
about songs and write their own
song (Descriptive or protest)
5AE and 5TH:
Hockey
Tennis
Cricket
Rounds – Students will learn and
rounds and write their own
round
5AE and 5TH:
Cricket
Rounders
Athletics
5AM, 5SG and 5JB:
Cross Country
Dance
5AM, 5SG and 5JB:
OAA
Tennis
Ancient Greece
Jason & The Argonauts
Forces – Gravity, friction, air and
water resistance
Energy
Forms of energy
Generating electricity
Fossil fuels
Renewable fuels
5AM, 5SG and 5JB:
Tennis
Hockey
Athletics
South Africa
Living things and their habitats
Animal lifecycles
5AM, 5SG and 5JB:
Athletics
Cricket
Rounders
Coasts
Properties of materials
Mixtures & Solutions
Separating techniques
Reversible changes
Irreversible changes
Dear Diary…
Moving on.
Various Courses
Churches/Religions of
Minehead
Various Courses
What’s in your head?
Keeping Healthy
Social, Health
Education)
RE
Friday
University
Events / trips
/ visitors
Christian Values that the
Victorians followed.
Various Courses
Hinduism
Greek Gods and Goddesses
Various Courses
Various Courses
Various Courses
Inspire Mornings
Allerford Trip
Victorian Walk around
Minehead
Christingle
Carol Services
Ancient Greece Day
Swimming
Exmoor National Park Talk
Federation Musical
Move-Up Day