PENSFORD PRIMARY SCHOOL
LONG TERM TWO YEAR CYCLE
Y 5/6
TERM 1
TERM 2
NEW CURRICULUM CYCLE YEAR B
2015 - 2016
TERM 3
TERM 4
Topic
Pensford Pride
Gods and Monsters
Amazing America
Wow
Lots of local trips and visitors
Film related to topic
Visit to Hindu Temple
Visit to the Matthew in Bristol; American Museum in Bath
Kingfisher
ASPIRATION
Motivated
PSHME
Working hard
ENGLISH
Short stories and poems using
local areas as stimulus
Formal impersonal writing –
making a virtual guide of the
area
MATHS
Place Value, ordering,
rounding, ordering decimals,
addition and subtraction real
life problems, estimation, length
SCIENCE
Independent
Concentrating
Aristotle & democracy
Myths and legends
Learn by heart and perform
poems
Poetic imagery
Author visit – Threshold Writing
Prize
Multiplication and division,
estimation, angles, symmetry,
reflection, rotation, Trireme
Greek battleships game
Electricity: circuits, conductors, switches, circuit diagrams, cells,
wires, series and parallel circuits
COMPUTING
Making virtual guide-movies
Control technology, input and
output devices, basic skills
PE
Swimming
Hockey / Playleader Games
Swimming
Football / Rugby
Ancient Greece: chronology,
Sparta and Athens, Hoplites,
HISTORY
GEOGRAPHY
Physical and human
geography of Pensford
ART
Colour mixing, self portraits,
sketching in local area
Artist study: Klee
DT
Gears, levers, pulleys
FRENCH
ENTERPRISE
Listening – Aker Bilk
Wider Opportunities - clarinet
Numbers, colours, classroom
instructions
Virtual guide or film about
Pensford to celebrate
centenary – sell DVDs
TERM 6
Reach for the stars
Visit to @bristol Planetarium
Life Skills Visit
Residential trip
Persevering
Not giving up; making
improvements, Life Skills Visit
Confident
Pushing oneself; trying new
things; school nurse visits
Respectful and caring
Creative
Understanding others
Using one’s imagination
Instructional writing
Presenting to the class
Myths and legends
Threshold Writing Prize
Recounts
Fictional biographies
Diaries
Persuasive writing
Science Fiction stories
Journalistic writing
Personification poems, Kennings
Writing speeches for end of
year production
Writing letters to new schools
and for new pupils
Play scripts
Multiplication and division,
estimation, perimeter, area, 2D
shape, money, data handling
Fractions, decimals,
percentages, temperature, 3D
shape, nets, capacity and
volume, base 20, calendars,
Ratio and proportion,
probability, Tessellation, coordinates, algebra
Problem solving, maths trails,
investigations, planet distances
- scaling
Living things & habitats:
Habitats, classification, food
chains and webs, reproduction,
lifecycles
Properties of materials:
Reversible changes, insulators,
Separating materials
Earth and Space: Earth, Moon
and Sun, Day and Night,
Eclipses and Seasons, Moon
phases, Stars, Planets, Solar
System
Light and Sound: Sound,
vibration ,pitch and loudness,
soundproofing, light, shadow,
colours, reflection and
refraction
Data bases
Using sensors
Swimming
Gymnastics / Prepare for
dance Umbrella
Mayas and Aztecs:
Chronology, Tenochtitlan,
temples, sacrifice and offerings,
Gods and Goddesses
Control and simulation
Evaluating and creating games
Dance Umbrella Performance
Athletics
Rounders
Mayas and Aztecs:
Education, Punishments, trade
and markets, barter system,
The Moon Landing
Countries in North and South America
RE AMV UNIT 4: What does it
mean to belong to the
Christian religion? King James
Bible
RE AMV UNIT 10: What does it
mean to belong to the Hindu
religion?
RE
MUSIC
Physical and human
geography of Ancient and
Modern Greece
TERM 5
The structure of the planet
RE AMV UNIT 5: Why are some journeys and places special?
Sketching and making clay stila
Making clay commemorative
coins / pots
Appraising the work of James
Horner – battle scenes
Composing battle sound track
Wider Opportunities
Swimming
Athletics
Outdoor and Adventurous
Residential
Scenery for class production
Healthy Mexican Food
Chocolate
Musical composition
Wider Opportunities
Wider Opportunities
Wider Opportunities
Introducing yourself, describing
Animals, body parts
Commemorative Pensford
coins to sell
Sell musical compositions
Class sale
Performances for class
production and leavers service
Wider Opportunities
Asking for directions, planets
Design, make, market and sell
boxes of hand-made
chocolates
End of year play – donations
and DVDs to sell