Courthouse Green Primary School

‘Doing our best to be our best’

Year group: 5

WOW start/
trips and enrichment/
end product. / Literacy
Inc key texts / Maths links / Computing / Science / Humanities
Geog and History / Design and Technology / Art and Design
Year 5
Theme 1
Autumn Term
Key Question:
What is it made of?
PSHCE
Democracy
JLT
School rules
Class Covenant
New Starts / Nick Barker – Warwick Uni Scientist – Wed 3rd September
End – Visit to Warwick Uni to see Nick Barker
End product: Create an online presentation for Nick Barker about the changing state of materials
Can materials change?
- Book creator/ telligami/ comic life / Last Days of Pompeii (volcanic eruption)
Tellagami
Green screen
Imovie - News report
I Survived the San Francisco Earthquake, 1906
- Narrative – historial/adventure genre
- Information text
- Comparative report (compare effects in LEDC and MEDC)
** Chemical Crusader / Measures
Reading scales
Graphs
Numbers App / Understanding computer networks can provide multiple services other than the WWW e.g. skype, facetime, email, communication (blogs)
Appreciate how search results are selected
Quake feed / Materials and their properties / Tectonic plates: earthquakes and volcanoes
Quake Feed
Describe and understand physical features – mountains, earthquakes and volcanoes.
Causes and effects in a developed and less developed country.
Understand how mountains have changed over time
Maps
Empathy, how people felt
Helping those in the community - aid / Select appropriate materials to create real life depictions.
Using shading to show shadows and reflection (drawing)
Explore perspective when drawing.
Teach simple Base collage on observational faces
Base collage on the work of an artist’s
perspective.
Artists - collage
Peggy Wolf
Afsoon
Year 5
Theme 2
Autumn 2
Start Date Wed 1st October
Key Question:
What did the Tudors do for us?
PSHCE
Controlling emotions
Monarchy
Making the right decision / WOW – Wed 1st October Young Shakespeare Company
Trip – Partnership Centre
Startford – Shakespeare’s birth place
Anne Hathaway’s Cottage
End – Tudor Banquet
Can you see a possible solution to male heir dilemma? / Macbeth
- Story with a historical setting
- writing from a different character’s perspective
- Newspaper report
Comic Life
Shakespeare App
Morfo
Puppet Pals
What should Macbeth have done? / Timeline – finding difference between years / Skill: Appreciate how search results are selected / DISCRETE
Earth and Space – solar system/ earth’s rotation
Star Walk App / Tudors
Dissolution of the monastery
Was Henry right to dissolve the monastery?
Fitting into the community / Making a product from wood – design and create a Tudor dinner service / Brushstrokes using watercolour using layering
Create a stylised Tudor Rose.
Appliqué, explore designers and apply.
Year 5
Spring
Key Question:
Where does water come from?
PSHCE
What is good?
Stereotypes
Being safe / WOW –
Dol y Moch
Trip – Dol y Moch
End Product: How could you conserve water in your garden?
Create a water saving device and re-distribution mechanism. / Wind in the Willows
- Explanation text (journey of a river)
Explain Everything
- Persuasive brochure encouraging households to save water
Podcast
Comic Life
Discrete Literacy
The Highwayman / Data handling – rainfall / Skill: Appreciate how search results are selected / DISCRETE
Forces – gravity/ air resistance/ gears and pulleys / Water cycle, rivers and streams
Timeline App
Popplet
Ebook
UK topgraphical features
British Isles
Map work
Looking after the environment
Risk Assessments / Technical Knowledge – link to science
Use a pulley mechanism in a product.
Use a series circuit with a range of components.
Use a computer based program to control the model. / Explore the work of a magnum photographer and the effect of black and white photography.
Using iPads, explore and change tone, depth and colour. Respond to the effect in writing.
Year 5
Summer 1
Key Question:
What caused the downfall of the Mayan Civilisation?
PSHCE
Voting
Penal system
Working with others
Communities / WOW –Mystery box delivered – somebody has dug up an artefact
QR codes
End Product – How would you explain the end of the Mayan Civilisation?
Create a debate to explain your point of view. / Weslandia
- setting description
- persuasive brochure
Moldiv
Pic Collage
Pic Play Post
Tellegami / Timeline – finding difference between years / Skill: Debug programs that accomplish specific goals / DISCRETE
Animals – digestive system/ teeth / Mayan Civilisation
Working together to build a community / Research existing products and evaluate their functionality and their audience.
Talk about a famous designer/ architect and their work.
Develop ideas through cross-sectional diagrams. / Explore the work of Mayan pattern design and create a silk screen depiction.
Show an appreciation of silk screen printing.
Explore silk screen printing and the absence of colour.
Year 5
Summer 2
Key Question:
Can you survive…?
PSHCE
Puberty
Achievements
Moving up / WOW – Visit from army survivalist
Trip
End –Can you design a way to survive without modern appliances?
Survive outside for the day without electricity/ running water / The Vanishing Rainforest
Rainforest adventure story / Points of the compass - orienteering / Skill: Debug programs that accomplish specific goals
QR codes
Trails / All living things – life cycles/ classification of plants and animals
DISCRETE in RSE
Animals – human changes
Puberty / Similarities and differences of human and physical features in a region of the UK, a region of Europe and a region in North or South America.
Contrasting climates.
Orienteering (PE)
Map Trace
Map my walk?
Famous explorers / Design a healthy dish, choosing appropriate ingrediants that are in season.
Make a hot savoury dish that has different parts e.g. a sausage roll.
Present their product to others and evaluate against their functionality, marketability and how appealing it is. / Create wire sculptures based on observational drawings linked to theme.
(Tin Forest)