Year 5 Curriculum Overview
Autumn 1
Religion (WTL and Gifts from God
Come and See)
Spiritual and
Cultural
Education
Living in
PHSE/SRE
Community
(Alive to the
World)
Autumn 2
Spring 1
Spring 2
Summer 1
Summer 2
Hinduism
Inspirational People
Reconciliation
Life in the Risen
Jesus
The
Commandments
Community Is Sharing
My Personality
Thinking and Doing
Sharing Things of
Value
Sports and Real Life
Family and Community
Building up the
community
Solidarity and the
Common Good
Building our Own
Mission team
Rights and
Responsibility
Recognise the
difference between
rights and
responsibilities
Option for the Poor
and Vulnerable
Helping each other
to see brothers and
sisters not
strangers in need.
Dignity of the
Human
Person
Each person is
unique and
irreplaceableeveryone matters
Democracy
Debating
Democracy
Rochdale Children’s
Champion Elections
Moral Education
CARITAS-The
Social Teaching of
RE
Social Education
British Values
Cultural
Education
Stewardship
Stewards of God’s
World
CAFOD -Harvest
Fundraising
Democracy
School Council
Elections
Rule of law
Class Rules
Tolerance of other
Faiths and Beliefs
Study of Hinduism
Ten Ten Theatre What is
our calling from God?
Mutual respect
Supporting charitable
works
CAFOD
St Joseph’s Penny
Year 5 Curriculum Overview
Autumn 1
Autumn 2
Spring 1
Spring 2
Summer 1
Summer 2
Poetry (famous
poet and poem
WordsworthDaffodils)
Narrativedetective stories
Recount.
Persuasive letters
Place value
Formal written
addition methodscolumn addition
Subtraction
Mental maths
strategies
Newspaper recounts
Non- Chronological
reports.
Information text.
Persuasion
Sci-fi story
Non-Chronological
reports.
Performance Poetry
Fictional Diary
Recounts
Non –
Chronological
Reports
Greek Myth
Report Writing
Biography.
Information text.
Fictional diary.
Time
Length and perimeter
Fractions
Angles
Mental maths strategies
Written multiplication
methods
Decimal place value
Problem solving
Dividing
Square numbers
Properties of triangles
Fractions.
Data handling.
Grams and
kilograms.
Litres and
millilitres.
Conversion
Addition and
subtraction written
methods.
Money
Multiplication
Negative numbers.
Translations and
reflections.
Fractions
Division
Reading and using
timetables.
Area and perimeter.
Place value.
Percentages.
Roman numerals.
Line graphs.
Reading and using
timetables.
Cube numbers.
Topic
Rainforest Rescue;
why bother?
Where the Tudors really
terrible?
How much space is in
Space?
Get lost!
What did Ancient
Greece ever do for
us?
World War II
History/
Geography
New Curriculum
Objectives
Environmental
change- Global
scale.
Brazil – Manaus
Fair Trade.
Climate Zones –
Tropics.- Climate
Latitude and
Longitude
Significant historical
event- the reformation
of the monasteries.
Changing power of the
Monarch/social history.
Community Kids
Human impact on
the local
environment.
Ancient Greece
Greek life and
achievements –
influence on
western world.
Chronology
Life in 1930’s
Fashion
Blitz
War camp
Brief study of
holocaust
Anne Frank
Transport
Evacuees
English –
writing genres
Maths
Map reading OS
maps
Grid references.
Year 5 Curriculum Overview
Autumn 1
Autumn 2
Spring 1
Spring 2
Summer 1
Summer 2
Science
Circle of life
Making new plants
Animal behaviour
Making babies
Material world.
Why materials matter
Solutions
Making changes
Out of this world.
The Solar System
Meet the scientist
Night and day
Let’s get moving
Forces of nature
It’s a drag
Magnificent
machines.
Super scientists.
How scientists work
Forensics
Spreading the word.
Computing
To develop
problem solving
skills-A.L.E.X
Understand computer
networks-Internet V
WWW. Identify
megabytes, gigabytes
etc. Binary number
system to ten
Use a computer safelyDefine filters, browsers, to
know wiki and how it is edited.
Short presentation explaining
Wikipedia
Create, plan and
design an online
questionnaire.
Create a simple
infographics
Growing up and
growing old.
The human
timeline
Growing pains
Getting old
Plan, design and
create a simple
maze game.
ART
Rousseau -pastel
Drawing of Architecture.
Greek pottery
Claude MonnetPoppies
DT
Shelters
(In the rainforest)
(structure)
Music
Cornets/Trumpets
BBC Ten pieces (History of Music)
Big Sing
Tri-golf
Gymnastics(bridges &
Ball skills
flight)
Ball skills
French
French
PE
MFL
Events and Trips
Horus birds of
prey.
Rainforest day.
Cams – moving
models.
(mechanism)
Bramall or Samlesbury
Hall
Recognise
acceptable
behaviour
online.
Watch and
discuss
videos and
create a rules
poster
Cookery Moussaka. (FPT)
Cornets/Trumpets
Notation exploring musical processes
Big Sing
Gymnastics and dance
Gymnastics and
dance.
Cornets/Trumpets
Improvisation
Big Sing
Athletics
Rounders
Athletics
Cricket
French
French
French
French
Orienteering
Touchstones?
Imperial War
Museum.
Big Questions
Is it wrong to
destroy the
rainforest?
Was Henry VIII right to
split from the Catholic
Church?
Is there any other life
out in space?
Can anything
special really come
out of Middleton?
Can we learn
anything from the
Ancient Greeks?
Could a man like
Hitler ever be in
charge of a country
again?