Ashville College Junior School
Literacy
Spellings
Text Type
Learning Objectives
Stories, poems and novels by
significant children’s
writers.
Texts
Toothie and Cat
Licked
Friend or Foe?
Text level – Learning
Objectives
To investigate story openings, endings and structures.
To explore presentation of characters within a text.
To develop an active attitude towards reading.
To make predictions and evaluations about a book.
To write alternative story openings and endings.
To independently write new scenes or characters into a
story.
Sentence level – Learning
Objectives
To use basic conventions of standard English.
To study writing adapted for different audiences and
purposes.
To use prepositions, punctuation marks and clauses.
To revise apostrophe for possession.
To use connectives to link clauses or sentences.
To revise and extend work on verbs.
To investigate punctuation as an aid to reading.
To investigate, collect and classify
spelling patterns in pluralisation
and to construct rules for regular
spellings:
add ‘s’ to most words
add ‘es’ to most words ending in
‘s, s, ch’
when ‘y’ is preceded by a
consonant, change to ‘ies’
when ‘y’ is preceded by a vowel,
add ‘s’
change ‘f’ to ‘ves’
‘ff’ words just add ‘s’
To investigate:
words that have no singular (eg
trousers, scissors)
words that are the same in the
singular and plural (eg sheep, deer)
plurals with endings other than ‘s’
(eg mice, men)
plurals of words ending in ‘o’ (eg
potatoes, tomatoes)
To learn irregular plurals (eg
antennae, teeth, children, formulae, dice,
lice, geese, men, women, mice)
To collect and investigate the
meanings and spellings of words
using the following prefixes: autobi-, trans-, tele-, circum-
Handwriting
Word level – Learning
Objectives
To use independent spelling strategies.
To identify unstressed vowels in polysyllabic words.
To transform words.
To identify everyday words from other languages and
how words vary over dialects.
To use dictionaries efficiently.
To recognise and use synonyms.
To know the spelling rules for past tense.
To focus on root words, derivations and spelling
patterns.
To explore idioomatic phrases, clichés and expressions.
To practise correct formation of
basic joins
To ensure consistency in size and
the spacing between letters and
words
Curriculum Overview – Year 5
Numeracy
Science
Topics
Topics
Place value, ordering, rounding
Using a calculator
Understanding + and –
Mental calculation
strategies
Pencil and paper
procedures
Money and ‘real life’ problems
Making decisions, checking
results
Fractions, decimals and percentages
Learning Objectives
To be able to:
Read and write whole numbers up to 100 000
Count on/back in equal steps (eg 25,100),
including beyond zero.
Round any three or four digit number to the
nearest 10 or 100
Recall addition and subtraction facts for each
number up to 20
Add/subtract any pair of two digit numbers
Find pairs with sum of 100; derive multiples of
50 with a sum of 1000
Double or halve any whole number to 100
Recall facts in 2x, 3x, 4x, 5x, 6x, 10x tables and
derive division facts
Begin to recall facts in 7x, 8x, 9x tables, squares
to 102
Multiply or divide whole numbers up to 10000
by 10 or 100
Read and write whole numbers in figures and
words
Know what each digit represents and partition
into Th H T U
Use the vocabulary of comparing and ordering
numbers
Understand the effect of relationships between
the four operations
Use approximation methods
Use informal pencil and paper methods to
support, record or explain x and 
Use all four operations to solve money or ‘real
life’ problems
Use fraction notation and use vocabulary
numerator and denominator
Change an improper fraction to a mixed
number
Recognise simple equivalent fractions, including
1/10 and 1/100
Use decimal notation for 1/10 and 1/100
Begin to understand percentage as the number
of parts in every 100
Solve simple problems involving ratio
Discuss chance and likelihood
Present and interpret data on a bar chart and
bar line graph
Make a simple database on paper
Identify the mode
Autumn Term 2011 – 1st half
Non-Core Subjects
Changing state
Learning Objectives
To apply the term ‘state’ when describing solids,
liquids and gases
To identify the process that takes place when
water changes to gas as evaporation
To identify a range of contexts in which water
evaporates
To devise an investigation to identify the factors
that could affect how fast water evaporates
To make predictions and test these
To understand the concept of ‘fair testing’
To record and present results, using graphs
To compare results to draw conclusions
To identify the process which takes place when
water vapour turns to liquid as condensation
To explain why condensation occurs in a
number of situations
To identify patterns in data and use it to make
predictions
To recognise that heating water at its boiling
point will not result in it getting hotter
Identify the boiling point as 100 C
To state that freezing point of water is 0 C
To recognise that evaporation and condensation
are processes that can be reversed
To describe the ‘Water Cycle’, naming processes
correctly
Humanities
History
What was life like for Victorian children?
To explore and identify the lives of men,
women and children at different levels of
society in Britain and the ways in which they
were affected by changes in industry and
transport. To know key information about the
life of Queen Victoria. Place events on a time
line. Steam power, factories and mass
production. Children at work. Lord
Shaftesbury /Dr Barnardo and the welfare of
children. How Victorian children spent their
leisure time.
Geography
Volcanoes
Earth’s plates and movement
Earth’s core to crust
Formation of mountains
How and why volcanoes erupt
Where and why volcanoes are found
Main volcanoes in the world
Features of a volcano
Atlas work
Revise the UK
Map of Europe
How to use school Atlas
Different types of map in Atlas and uses
Art
Victorian Art – focus William
Morris
Japanese Art – focus Hiroshige
Hukusai
Technology
Correct and safe use of tools
Making a wheeled vehicle to move
smoothly and straight along the
playground
PSHCEE
SEAL Topic – ‘New Beginnings’
Understand how it feels to start
something new
Know the importance of working
together
SCHOOL COUNCIL – elections
of class representative
French
Revise Year 4 work
Role-play
Alphabet
Nos 1-39
Meeting and greeting Negatives
Preferences
Parts of the body
Spanish
To introduce Spanish vocabulary
through the topic on Mexico
To study History, the Rainforest,
Coffee farming, food and drink,
festivals.
RE
Christianity and Judaism
The story of Abraham and the
start of Judaism.
Compare the age of Judaism and
Christianity with other religions
Study the origin of the day of rest
and see how Christians and Jews
keep it today
ICT
Word processing skills
Touch typing
Software to improve word
processing skills
Internet research for famous
Victorians.
Making a Victorian website
Flow Diagrams
Produce flow diagrams, including
decisions based on different
variables
PE
Swimming
Rugby
Netball
Developing ball skills into games
situations – short tennis
Dance
Cross Country
Health related fitness
Gym
Music
Rhythmic and pitch notation
explored though composition
and percussion instruments.
Recorder ensemble and singing.