Tollgate Primary School Subject Overview
Curriculum OverviewYear Five
Autumn Term Two 2014 - 2015
Week 1 / Week 2 / Week 3 / Week 4 / Week 5 / Week 6 / Week 7Text/Focus / Narrative
Firework Maker’s Daughter / Narrative
Firework Maker’s Daughter / Narrative
Firework Maker’s Daughter / Narrative
Firework Maker’s Daughter / Poetry
Poetic style
(word-play, rhyme, metaphor, word choice)
/ Poetry
Poetic style
(word-play, rhyme, metaphor, word choice)
/ Comprehension/Grammar assessment
Grammar / Expanded noun phrases / Direct speech / Colons and Semi-Colons / Past and Present Tense / Use commas to clarify meaning / Punctuation / Assessment
Spelling / Words which sound like /shuh/ spelt cious and tious / Words ending ance and ence / Spelling words / Words ending ancy and ency / Homophones and other words that are often confused / Spelling Words / Assessment
Comprehension / AF2
Understand, describe, select or retrieve information, events or ideas from texts and use quotation and reference to text. / AF3
Deduce, infer or interpret information, events or ideas from texts. / AF4
Identify and comment on the structure and organisation of texts including grammatical and presentational features at text level / AF5
Explain and comment on writer’s use of language, including grammatical and literal features at word and sentence level / AF6
Identify and comment on writers’ purposes and viewpoints, and the overall effect of the text on the reader. / AF6
Identify and comment on writers’ purposes and viewpoints, and the overall effect of the text on the reader. / Assessment which covers AF1/AF2/AF3/AF4
/AF5/AF6
Writing / Consider how authors developed characters and settings in the text. / Describe settings, characters and atmosphere and integrate dialogue to convey character and enhance meaning. / Describe settings, characters and atmosphere and integrate dialogue to convey character and enhance meaning. / Select appropriate grammar and vocab understanding how choices can change meaning
Ensure the consistent and correct tense / Select appropriate grammar and vocab understanding how choices can change meaning
Assess the effectiveness of their own writing / Propose changes to grammar, vocabulary and punctuation to enhance effects and clarify meaning. / Assessment
Mathematics / Measure
To read unnumbered scales to the nearest division or half division.
To convert times into 24hr clock times. / Geometry – Properties of shape/position and direction.
To identify 3D shapes, including cuboids from 2D representations.
To reflect and translate shapes in a variety of diagrams. / Statistics
To solve comparisons, calculations and difference problems using information in a line or bar graph. / Four rules of number and algebraic equations.
To solve algebraic calculations of addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. / Problem Solving
To solve word problems for all the key skills taught. / Assessment / Areas for development.
To revisit areas of mathematics that need strengthening.
Computing
We are game developers. / To design a game using a story board template. / To create and source game assets. / To create a prototype of a game. / To debug the game script. / To test the game. / To review and evaluate the game. / To publish the game with a set of instructions.
Science
Properties and changes of materials. / To compare and group together everyday materials in accordance with their properties. / To investigate materials that dissolve in water. / To describe how to recover materials from a solution. / To apply knowledge of solid, liquid and gases to decide how mixtures might be separated. / To explain why certain some everyday materials are used for particular objects.
(Fair testing) / To demonstrate that dissolving, mixing and changes of state are reversible changes. / To explain that some changes result in the new formation