Upper Key Stage 2 Curriculum Map
Subject
Areas
Autumn 1
st
Y5 – A Kingdom United
Y6 – Survival!
English
Y5 – Legends
Y5 – Persuasion
Y6 – Novel as a theme
Y6 – Biography
Maths
Science
Lancs scheme
Y5 – Material properties – comparative/
fair tests of everyday materials
Y6 – Evolution and Inheritance –
adaptation, survival of the fittest,
reproduction and passing on traits
Y5 – IT: Data Handling
Y6 – IT/DL: Digital Research
Computing
Autumn 2
nd
Y5 – Food, Glorious Food!
Y6 – Britten’s Got Talent?
Spring 1st
Spring 2nd
Summer 1st
Summer 2nd
Y5 – Earthlings
Y6 – Heroes and Villains
Y5 – Inventors and Inventions
Y6 – Super Sleuth
Y5 – Amazon Adventure
Y5 – Faster, Higher, Stronger
Y5 – Stories with a historical setting
Y5 – Film and playscripts
Y5 – Classic narrative poetry
Y6 – Classic fiction
Y6 – Poetry – songs and lyrics
Y6 – Persuasion: a formal review
Lancs scheme
Y5 – Materials – reversible and
irreversible changes
Y6 – Light – exploring the way light
behaves including light sources,
reflection, shadows
Y5 – DL/CS:
Collaboration/networking
Y6 – IT: Multimedia
Y5 – Science Fiction stories
Y5 – Information booklets
Y5 – Poems with a structure
Y6 – Older literature
Y6 – Information text hybrid
Y6 – Poems with imagery
Lancs scheme
Y5 – Earth and Space
Y6 – Famous scientists and their
contributions to the world
Y5 –Novel as a theme
Y5 – Magazine: information text
hybrid
Y6 – Detective/Crime fiction
Y6 – Explanations
Y5 – Stories from other cultures
Y5 – Debates
Y6 – Short stories with flashbacks
Y6 – Novel as a theme
Y6 – Classic narrative poetry
Lancs scheme
Y5 – Forces and falling objects
Y6 – Classification including
subdivisions for vertebrates and
invertebrates
Lancs scheme
Y5 – Life cycle changes in
animals and plants; naturalists
(e.g. David Attenborough)
Y5 – IT: Modelling
Y6 – CS: Computational thinking
Y5 – CS:
Programming/computational
thinking
Y6 – IT/CS/DL: Digital research,
communication and collaboration/
networking
Y5 – Dance (Performance 1.
Video/perform and evaluate with
year 6)
Y5 – Swimming
Y6 – Striking and fielding
Y6 – Dance (Performance 1. Video
/perform and evaluate with year 5)
PE
Y5 – Invasion Games (Core task 1)
Y5 – Swimming
Y6 – Invasion Games (Core task 1 and 2)
Y6 – Swimming
Y5 – Net and wall games (Core
task 1,2,3 where impropriate)
Y5 – Swimming
Y6 – Net and wall games (Core
tasks 1,2,3)
Y6- Swimming
Y5 – Invasion games (Core task
2)
Y5 – Swimming
Y6 – Invasion games (core task 1
and 2)
Y6 – Gymnastics (Core task 1,2)
RE
Y5 – Judaism
Y6 – Christianity, The Church
Y5+6 - Being Me In My World
Additional teaching: Taking Part: British
Values (ref Magna Carta, school council
elections)/PACK type testing/Fire safety
Y5 – Christianity, God
Y6 Christianity, God
Y5+6 - Celebrating Difference
Additional teaching: Anti-bullying
week/Christmas Enterprise
Y5 – Christianity, The Church
Y6 – Hindu Dharma
Y5+6 – Dreams and Goals
Additional teaching: E-safety
week (link to Magna Carta: My
Digital Rights) / Money Matters
Y5: Alice in Wonderland: Time/Festival
Focus
Y6: Spanish Royal Family: Festival
Focus
Y6 – Drawing and painting developed
into digital art; developing sketch book
ideas
Y5: Tapas: Ordering
Foods/Christmas in Spain
Y6: Family Trees/Christmas in
Spain
Y6 – Painting inspired by music
Y5: School/Festival Focus
Y6: Revision/Festival Focus
Y5 – Food – food from another
culture, variety of cooking
techniques
Y6 – Food – chefs, food heroes –
designing a healthy menu –
eatwell plate
Y5 – Mechanical systems – cams,
pulleys and gears
WOPPs
Y5 – World food – where does food
come from?
WOPPs
WOPPs
PSHE
Spanish
Art &
Design
D.T.
Music
Geography
History
WOPPs
Y5 – UK cities, counties and key features
- research
Y6 – Worlds countries and key features research
Y5 – Britain’s settlement by Anglo
Saxons and Scots (including place
names)
Y6 – Oh! I Do Like To be Beside the Seaside
Y5 – Christianity, Jesus
Y6 – Sikh Dharam
Y5+6 - Healthy Me
Additional teaching: Drug, Alcohol
and Tobacco Awareness/Charity
Fundraising: Good Shepherd/
Comic Relief
Y5: Sports/Easter in Spain
Y6: Revision/Easter in Spain
Y5 – Drawing and painting
developed into abstract textured
paintings
Y6 – Electricity
Y5 – IT: Multimedia
Y5 – Myths
Y5 – Reports
Y5 – Poems with figurative language
Y6 – Recount: autobiography
Y6 – Debates and discussion
Y6 – Poems on a theme
Lancs scheme
Y5 – Animals including humans –
growth and development of humans
PLUS exercise and the circulatory
system
Y5 – CS: Programming
Y6 – CS: Programming/computational thinking/hardware
Y5 – Striking & Fielding (Core
task 1 and 2)
Y5 - Gymnastics (Core task 1
and 2)
Y6 – Dance (Performance 2)
Y6 – Athletics (Core tasks 1, 2 as
appropriate plus up to 10
swimming with year 3)
Y5 – Islam
Y6 – Christianity Jesus
Y5+6 – Relationships
Additional teaching: Keeping
safe/Risk taking
Y5 – Peer mediator training
Y5: The Emperor’s New
Clothes/Festival Focus
Y6: Revision/Festival Focus
Y5 – Outdoor and adventure
Y5 – Athletics (Core tasks 1,2,3 as
appropriate)
Y6 – Outdoor and adventure
Y6 – Athletics (Core tasks 2,3 as
appropriate – plus up to 10 swimming
with year 3)
Y5 – Buddhism
Y6 – Buddhism
Y5+6 – Changing Me
Additional teaching: PANTS/
Transition
Y6 – Bike-ability/ High School
Transition (‘Moving On, Moving Up’)
Y5: Holidays
Y6: Hispanic Music
Y5 – Painting developed into
printmaking/collage and digital art
Y6 – Drawing and painting developed into collage/batik/felt making
Y5 – Mayans
Y6 – Viking and Anglo Saxon
struggle for the kingdom of England
Y5 – 3D textiles – using gussets,
using patterns, joining with seam
allowance, combining fabrics
Y6 – Combining learning from across design and technology skills basis –
structures, mechanical systems, electrical systems, ICT programming and
control
WOPPs
WOPPs
Y5 – Contrasting region – amazon
basin, rainforest, biomes
Y6 – Human geography, land use, economic activity, OS map work
Y5 – Ancient Greece (including sport)
Y6 – Aspect of British History beyond 1066 – leisure and entertainment