St James (Daisy Hill) CE Primary School
2014/2015 ANNUAL PLAN OVERVIEW FOR YEAR GROUP 5
AUTUMN
Topic
Title
ENGLISH
(includin
g main
texts to
be
covered)
ENGLISH
GENRES
SPRING
½ term 1
½ term 2
Anglo Saxons
Vicious Vikings
Words derived from
Anglo-Saxon times
Beowulf
The Lantern Bearers –
Rosemary Sutcliffe?
Diary writing
The Lion, the Witch and
the Wardrobe by CS Lewis
½ term 3
SUMMER
½ term 4
Ancient Greece
Ancient Greek myths and legends
Newspaper reports
Men and Gods – Rex Warner
Ancient Greece – Linda Honan
½ term 5
½ term 6
Born in the USA
Persuasive writing – holiday brochures
Sacajawea - Joseph Bruchac
Native tales
The Song of Hiawatha
Nancy Drew/The Hardy Boys
King Kong
Tornado – Betsy Byars?
Fiction – fiction from literacy heritage (2 weeks),
Suspense and mystery (2 weeks)
Non fiction – everything ongoing taught through
novels
Poetry – poetry appreciation (1 week)
Topic based writing – (2 weeks)
Fiction – legends (1 week), fiction from literacy heritage
(2 weeks)
Non fiction – instructions (1 week), persuasion (3
weeks), report (2 weeks), explanation (2 weeks)
Poetry – spoken word/rap (1 week)
Topic based writing – (2 weeks)
Fiction – legends (2 weeks), Suspense and mystery (2
weeks)
Non fiction – recount (2 weeks), discussion argument (2
weeks)
Poetry – narrative poetry (1 week)
Topic based writing – (1 week)
*1 week for assessment
*1 week for assessment
*World Book Day – Thursday 5th March
*2 weeks for assessment and transition etc.
Symmetry
Patterns linked to art
Area – linked to history
Symmetry
Measures
Shapes
Could you be the next CSI investigator?
Properties and changes of materials
Handling data linked to history
Angles
Position and direction
Currency conversion
Decimals
Distance/time graphs
Will we ever send another
human to the moon?
Earth and space
Can you feel the force?
Forces
Do all animals and plants
start life as an egg?
Living things and their
habitats, lifecycles
ICT
Data Retrieving and
Organising
E-safety
Algorithms and Programs
Presentation
Databases
Communicating
history
Were the Anglo Saxons
really smashing?
How has Grasmere
developed since Anglo
Were the Vikings
victorious and vicious?
Why has Greece always been in the news?
Using the Internet
Produce own silent
movie
Discover who the first Americans were.
MATHS
SCIENCE
geography
How different will you
be when you are as old
as your grandparents?
Animals (including
humans)
Presentation
What’s so special about the USA?
Own research on one of the states.
art
DT
Saxon time? – contrasting
locality.
Design and make their
own jewellery based on
the patterns commonly
used by Anglo-Saxons
(tessellations).
Printing shields
Work as a group to design
and make an Anglo-Saxon
settlement having carried
out research in the first
instance.
RE
Textiles – linked to
Christmas
Greek vases/pots
Andy Warhol
Red Indian art
Design and make a Viking
style meal to be eaten.
Design and make a Viking
longboat.
Greek masks
Construct a life size
teepee.
Islam: Muhammad
Hinduism
Hinduism
PHSE & C
We are all stars!
Building Learning Power –
Resilience
World War 1 and Centenary
Be friendly, be wise
Building Learning Power Reciprocity
Living long, living strong
Daring to be different
Dear Diary
PE
Basketball
Gymnastics - balance
Hockey
Gymnastics
Tag Rugby
Dance
Football
Dance
Athletics
Swimming
music
Singing games and songs. Multicultural songs - revise
call+response structure and compose simple
partner/group songs.
Pitch – revise complete Sol-fa scale - relate to
compositions.
Duration – 2,3 and 4 beat metre
Listening/Appreciation: Music from Around the World
Numbers to 60; Dates;
The weather; Christmas
Giving directions;
vocabulary
Transport
French
Singing games and songs. Multicultural songs.
Recorders + percussion. Listen to Balinese Gamelin Music
(revise pentatonic pitch, ostinato structure)
Improvise pentatonic ostinato patterns with diff. metres –
weave or layer parts to produce contrasting textures record (inf or standard notation) rehearse and perform.
Listening/Appreciation: Music from Around the World
Likes and dislikes
Money – using numbers in
context
Easter vocabulary
Islam: Celebrations
Joining in and joining up
Swimming
Rounders/cricket
Line dancing
Singing games and songs. Multicultural songs. Rounds
Project: Class Samba Band.
Improvise call-response structure. Compare
contrasting tempi and graduated dynamics
(crescend/diminuendo)
Rehearse for Class Performance
Listening/Apprec: Music from Around the World
Story retelling
French alphabet