Curriculum Overview for Year 5
English
Term 1:
Fiction
Stories with historical settings
Author study
Performance poetry
Non-Fiction
Newspaper reports
Instructions
Art & Design
Term 2:
Fiction
Myths & Legends
Stories from other cultures
Non-Fiction
Recounts

Reading
Writing
when reading new words
silent letters, etc.
 Landscapes
Paint- constable, turner,sisley and gainsborough
( great artists)
 Still l.ife
Watercolour pencil mosaics ( great artists)
 Art in motion (it stop go animation)
 Illusions in Art.
Term 3:
Fiction
film narrative
poetry,
Non-Fiction
persuasive writing
explanation texts
homophones, prefixes,
note taking
Grammar
Computing


Developing Games
Internet Safety

Design & write programs to solve problems
Use sequences, repetition, inputs, variables and
outputs in programs
collaboration &
Use sketchbooks to collect, record, review, revisit & evaluate ideas
communication
with varied materials
mendations to others
atmosphere
in narrative
-fiction
texts.










Place Value
Decimals, addition and money
Subtraction
Shape: properties of shapes
Multiplication, division and
fractions
Place value and multiplication
Place value, decimals and
subtraction
Measures
Fractions
Addition, subtraction and
multiplication
Speaking & Listening
-structured explanations
consistent appropriate tense
-reading
viewpoints
Geometry & Measures
 Convert between different
units
 Calculate perimeter of
composite shapes & area of
rectangles
 Estimate volume & capacity
 Identify 3-d shapes
 Measure & identify angles
 Understand regular polygons
 Reflect & translate shapes
Data
out line graphs
Science
Physics
• Sources of light; shadows & reflections
 • Understand location and interaction of Sun,
 • Introduce gravity, resistance & mechanical forces
 • Forces, including gravity
Chemistry – Properties and changes of materials
•
Classify materials according to a variety of
properties
•
Understand mixtures & solutions
•
Know about reversible changes; identify
irreversible
Biology – Living things and their habitats
•
Life cycles of plants & animals (inc. mammal,
insect, bird, amphibian)
• Describe changes as humans develop & mature





Fractions
Compare & order
fractions
Add & subtract
fractions with common
denominators, with
mixed numbers
Multiply fractions by
units
Write decimals as
fractions
Order & round decimal
numbers
Link percentages to
fractions & decimal

History

Romans Monarchs

know and understand the history of Britain and the Channel
Islands as a coherent, chronological narrative, how people’s
lives have shaped this nation and how Britain has influenced
and been influenced by the wider world
know and understand significant aspects of the history of the
Romans as an ancient civilisation; the expansion and
dissolution of empires; characteristic features of past nonEuropean societies; achievements and follies of mankind
gain an understanding of abstract terms such as ‘empire’,
‘civilisation’, ‘parliament’ and ‘peasantry’
understand concepts such as continuity and change, cause
and consequence, similarity, difference and significance, and
use them to make connections, draw contrasts, analyse
trends, frame historically-valid questions and create their own
structured accounts, including written narratives and analyses
understand the methods of historical enquiry, including how
evidence is used rigorously to make historical claims, and
know how and why contrasting arguments and interpretations
of the past have been constructed
gain historical perspective by placing their growing knowledge
into different contexts, understanding the connections
between local, regional, national and international history;
between cultural, economic, military, political, religious and
social history; and between short- and long-term timescales





Template created by Michael Tidd 2013


Mathematics
Design & Technology




Roman recipes
Cams toys
War cookery
Making musical instruments
Use research& criteria to develop products which are fit for purpose and
aimed at specific groups
-section diagrams & computer-aided
design
own work
Geography



Europe
Americas
Extreme Earth (Green Island)
Name & locate counties, cities, regions & features of UK
circles & time zones
distribution of resources, etc.
- and 6-figure grid references on OS maps
programming
Modern

Languages
French
Listen & engage
Music

•
•
India music
Modern Music Jewish Music Romantics
Nationalists Impressionists Folk Music
Blues and Jazz
Perform with control & expression solo & in ensembles
Adapt known language to create new ideas
musicians & composers
Tudor Explorers WWII
Physical
Education
Use running, jumping, throwing and catching in isolation and
in combination.
Develop flexibility, strength, technique, control and balance
e.g. through athletics and gymnastics.
Perform dances using a range of movement patterns
Play competitive games, modified where appropriate
Apply basic principles suitable for attacking and defending.
Compare their performances with previous ones and
demonstrate improvement to achieve their personal best
Swim competently, confidently and proficiently over a
distance of at least 25 metres
Perform safe self-rescue in different water-based situations
Religious
Education
Cycle 1
Places of Worship and Symbolism
(Community/identity/ritual/specialness/worship)
Passover and Seder Plate
(Freedom/Covenant/Israel/symbol/ritual)
Cycle 2
Jesus: What Christians believe about him and why
(Incarnation/authority/Trinity/salvation)
CHRISTIANITY Guru Nanak
(Guru/mukti/authority/wisdom)
SIKHISM
www.primarycurriculum.me.uk
Freedom from the cycle of rebirth is called mukti

Template created by Michael Tidd 2013

www.primarycurriculum.me.uk