Year 5 Curriculum Map Mrs Brooks

Sept 2014Year 5 Curriculum Map Mrs Brooks

Subject / Autumn / Spring / Summer
Literacy / Poetic Style/persuasive writing RWI unit 3 (3 weeks)
Historical narrative – The Lion and the unicorn, Little Ships (2 weeks)
Morpurgo biography (1 week)
Significant Authors – Morpurgo/Jeremy Strong/ biography RWI unit 4 (3 weeks)
Poetic style – Pie Corbett and Valerie Bloom (2 weeks)
Letters and persuasive writing (2 weeks)
Instructions(2 weeks) / Choral and performance poems (2 weeks)
Classic fiction (2 weeks)
Story from another culture/Non-chronological reports RWI unit 5 (3 weeks)
Persuasive writing, leaflets and posters( 2 weeks)
Play scripts, dramatic conventions/Discussion texts RWI unit 6 (3weeks)
( also SATs week) / Greek Myths/instructions RWI unit 1 (3 weeks)
Classic Narrative poetry (2 weeks)
Explanation and information texts – water cycle (2 weeks)
Modern retelling of a myth/dilemma and recounts RWI unit 2 (3weeks)
Charlie and the Chocolate factory (2 weeks)
(also SATs week)
Whole class texts / Cool, Billy the Kid, Adolphus Tips / Midnight fox, Journey to Jo’burg / Wreck of the Zanzibar
Maths / Place Value, ordering and rounding, multiplication and division, mental methods and grid method
Measuring in cm and mm, area and perimeter
2D shapes and angles
Written methods of division - chunking
Fractions relating to division, ratio and proportion
Reasoning and explaining, data handling –pictograms, bar charts, frequency tables.
Mental addition and subtraction/ written addition of 3 digit numbers,
Subtracting and finding differences
Problem solving using all four operations. / Place value of decimal numbers. Ordering and rounding decimal numbers.
Measures and handling data: metric units in length, weight and capacity, line graphs. Mental multiplication and division
Multiplying and dividing three-digit numbers by single-digit numbers
Fractions, decimals, percentages, ratio and proportion
Shape and data handling: Symmetry, parallel and perpendicular lines, classifying 2-D and 3-D shapes
Reasoning and explaining,
Mental and written addition and subtraction
Using a calculator
Problem Solving / Ordering numbers and using a calculator
Place value
Mental and written methods of multiplication and division
Time, using 24 hour clock
Fractions, decimals, percentages, ratio and proportion
shape symmetry, coordinates, reflection and translation
Reasoning and explaining
Mental and written methods of addition and subtraction
Handling Data, probability and mode
Problem solving
Science / Let’s get moving
Forces and movement, air resistance, water resistance, gravity, friction
Gears levers springs
Super scientists
How do scientists work? / Circle of life:
Life cycles of mammals, amphibians, insects and birds,
Out of this world
Earth, Sun and Moon
Earth Sun and Moon
Day and Night
Moon phases / Material world
Changing states reversible/irreversible changes– links to topic work on water and water cycle
Growing up and growing old
gestation periods
Humans growth
History / World War 1
The break out of war in Europe
How do we remember them 100 years on?
World War 2 (cross curricular through literacy/DT/Art)
The start of WW2,The rise of the Nazis and Adolf Hilter
Preparing for war - Evacuation,
Living in wartime Britain - Rationing make do and mend.
On the home front –Air Raids at home, the blitz, bomb shelters and black out.
DDay, the beginning of the end
The Holocaust
VE day and the end of the war
Remembrance / Viking and Anglo Saxon struggle
Viking raids and invasion
Alfred the Great
Anglo Saxon laws and justice
Edward the confessor (to 1066) / Ancient Greeks – their beliefs and their influence on today’s society
Where is Greece? Map work and features of landscape/climate etc
Life in Ancient Greek cities, democratic rule in Sparta and Athens
Children, families and homes in Ancient Greece
Olympics and sports
Theatre
Great Greek thinkers
What is left from Ancient Greece?
Geography / Map Skills
KS2l mapping skills project (visit to Gibside)
Europe
Changes since WW2 (map skills)
Location and place knowledge
Cities and flags
Languages, climate and landscape / Regional study in a European countryUnderstand location, geographical similarities and differences and key human and physical geography features of a region in Europe (TBC) Maybe do a region of Spain? Book available on Curriculum Visions, have a Spanish day with dressing up, food tasting, language, singing, dancing etc / Water water everywhere!
Physical features and vocabulary of rivers eg erosion. The journey of a river from source to sea.
Northumbrian water visitor
Field trip
Computing / We are game developers
Story board a game idea
Prepare a background, colours, sounds
Use scratch to design a sprite which moves using simple control.
Investigate other online games
Design and play own game.
We are cryptographers
Methods of communication
Semaphore
Morse Code
Cesar Cipher
De-ciphering codes
Passwords and internet safety / We are artists
We are web developers / We are web bloggers
We are architects
PE / Gymnastics. Balances, working individually and in pairs. Creating sequences.
Country and European dancing
Rugby skills, netball skills / Invasion games–Football (with NUFC coach?)
Cycling proficiency / Cricketwith coach in preparation for tournament
Athletics
OAA(orienteering and adventurous activities covered at Gibside)
R.E. / Judaism Sukkot/Harvest
Harvest in the Christian Church
Advent/Christmas/Hannukah / Christianity
Worship/the Bible
Easter / Judaism
Beliefs and practises
French / Que-est-ce que tu veux? / Mon ecole – revision of numbers, telling the time, school routines / Les sports
(links to sports day, summer PE and Olympics and Greece topic)
Music / Don’t Stop Beleivin’ unit (Charanga)
Harvest songs/WW2 songs
5 Gold Rings unit (Charanga)
Christmas songs/carols / Treasure Island BBC unit
Easter songs / Heroes of Troy BBC unit
Stop! (Charanga unit)
Summer end of term assembly songs
D.T. / Gears and pulleys (link to science work on forces) Technology Tom perhaps?
Bread making (Lit link to instructions)
Cooking with a rationed shopping list – Nick the chef
Make do and mend project - sewing / Healthy foods
Multicultural food. Links to literacy
Cams (Tech Tom?) / Bridges
Structures (link to rivers in geography)
Art / Self portraits
WW2 art – Blitz Skylines
Harvest/Halloween and bonfire art
The work of LS Lowry / Picasso
Earthand space 3D models
X stitch for Easter cards / Mayfair Artwork
Sketching, tone and shading, link to water/rivers/ coasts – Japenese artist
Greek art – plates and pots/ beasts