Year 5 Curriculum

CO5

 

YEAR 5

AUTUMN 1
(8 weeks)

AUTUMN 2
(7 weeks)

SPRING 1
(6 weeks)

SPRING 2
(6 weeks)

SUMMER 1
(6 weeks)

SUMMER 2
(7 weeks)

TOPIC

Chocolate

Extreme Universe

Crime and Punishment

THE BIG QUESTION

Is there equality in the chocolate industry?

How can we have courage in an extreme universe?

Were the Leaders HeartSmart? 

KEY CONCEPTS

Justice

Empathy

Sustainability

Gratitude

Imagination

Change

Beauty

Perseverance

Collaboration

Justice

Adversity

Capitalising

WOW

Chocolate Workshop

Planetarium Workshop

National Portrait Gallery

OUTCOME

Make a chocolate bar and create a Fair Trade advert

 Bridge Making to survive and Earthquake

Presentation for Head of History in the Secondary Phase

CULTURAL CAPITAL

Chocolate Workshop

Watch Secondary Show

Christmas Pantomime

Plantarium

HYMB Residential

National Portrait Gallery

St Barnabus Church

FOCUS WEEKS

Black History Month

Vision Day

International Day

National Geographic Day

Book Day

STEAM Week

Wellbeing Week

Art Week

 CLASSICAL MUSIC

Errollyn Wallen

Samuel
Coleridge - Taylor

Sergei Prokofiev

Fanny Mendelssohn

J.S. Bach

John Williams

CHRISTIAN VALUE

Humility

Perseverence / Hope

Community / Friendship

Forgiveness

Generosity

Gratitude / 
Thankfulness

RE

Creation

People of God

Gospel

Salvation

The journey of Life and Death

World Faiths:
Buddhism

BLP

Reflective Robbie

Resilient Rosie

Relational Ruby

Redemptive Raya

Resourceful Rocco

Reverent Ritchie

PSHE

Being me in my World

Celebrating Difference

Dreams and Goals

Healthy Me

Relationships

Changing Me

HEARTSMART

Being HeartSmart

Do not forget to let the Love in

Too much Selfie is not Healthy

Fake is a Mistake

No way through is not True

Do not rub it in, rub it out

WOWS AND WELLBEING

Archbishop Young Leaders Award

Design in the Built Environment

Cooking

Willow / Ash Assembly

Allotment / Puzzles

MATHS

Place Value B

Addition and Subtraction

Multiplication and Division

Fractions

Decimals and Percentages

Perimeter and Area

Graphs and Tables

Properties of Shapes

Position and Direction

Decimals

Negative Numbers

Converting Units

Volume and Capacity

MENTAL MATHS

Recap from previous Year

Place Value to Six Digits

Addition and Subtraction

Multiplication and Division

Fractions

Decimals and Percentages

Perimeter and Area

Graphs and Tables

Properties of Shapes

Position and Direction

Decimals

 

TALK 4 WRITING

 

FICTION

FICTION

FICTION

FICTION

FICTION

FICTION

The Promise

Kensuke's Kingdom

Cosmic

The day the Crayons quit

Treason

Katie and the Tudor Portrait Story

NON-FICTION

NON-FICTION

NON-FICTION

FICTION

NON-FICTION

NON-FICTION

Poetry linked to Black History Month

Instructional text / reports

The Cocoa Trade

Just So Stories

Ice Trap

Biography of Influential Women in the Tudor era

Shakespeare's Poetry

I LOVE READING

Windvale Sprites

Black History Texts

Kensuke's Kingdom

Environmental Leaflets

First News

Malala

Money's Heart

Parliament Text

Walter Tull

News Articles

Easter Poems

Laila's Lion

Revolting Rhymes

CPG Paper

Angelou and Parks

Poetry

SATs paper

HISTORY

 

Chocolate

Aztec and Mayan Chocolate

Arrival of Cocoa Beans in Europe

History of Cadbury

 

 

The Tudors

Crime and Punishment

GEOGRAPHY

Where does Cocoa grow?

Journey of the Cocoa Bean

Cocoa Farmers

South America

Trade links - Fair Trade

Volcanoes 3x lessons

Earthquakes 3x lessons

Mountains 2x lessons

Water cycle 4x lessons 

 

 

SCIENCE

Properties and Change of Materials

Forces in Action

Earth and Space

Life Cycles

Changes and Reproduction

Scientists and Inventors

ART / DESIGN

Mayan Masks

Modern Art:
Pollution and Environment

Modern Art:
Sea Life

PE

Netball Consistency

Gymnastics Consistency

Basketball
Consistency

Athletics Consistency

Rounders / Cricket Consistency

Cricket / Rounders / Athletics

COMPUTING

Online Safety and Computional Thinking

Systems and Searching

Coding

External Devices: Purple Chip

Word Processing

FRENCH

Describing me and others

Describing me and others

Christmas Song

Saying what I and others do

Saying what I and others like

DESIGN AND TECHNOLOGY

Design and make a Chocolate bar

Aztec Pottery

Extreme Universe - Interactive Information Boxes

Earthquake Bridges

Cooking

Programming Pioneers