Year 5 Curriculum Overview 2021 - 2022

Year 5

Autumn 1

Autumn 2

Spring 1

Spring 2

Summer 1

Summer 2

RE

Unit 1:Domestic Church

Family Ourselves

Unit 2:Baptism:

Belonging

Unit 4 Local Church:

Continuing Jesus’ mission in diocese (ecumenism)

Unit 3 Advent / Christmas

Waiting in joyful hope for Jesus

Unit 5 Eucharist   Memorial Sacrifice The living memorial of Jesus.

Unit 6 Lent/Easter 

Giving:Lent, a time of giving to celebrate the sacrifice of Jesus’

Unit 8 Reconciliation /Inter-relating

Freedom & Responsibility

Unit 7 Pentecost/Serving Transformation. The Spirit’s transforming power.

Unit 9 Universal Church

The Church is called to stewardship of Creation.

English

Focus Text : How To Train Your Dragon by Cressida Cowell

Writing Outcomes

• Performance Poetry
• Non-chron report (Dragons)
• Instructions
• Postcard

Focus Text : Cosmic by Frank Cotterill Boyce

Writing Outcomes

• List Poetry
• Compose an e-mail from one character to another
• Written Argument
• Alternative Endings

Focus Text : Hamlet , The Tempest,

Writing Outcomes

• Biography
• William Shakespeare
• Balanced Argument (Henry VIII)

Focus Text : The Boy and the Globe

Writing Outcomes

• Newspaper Report
• Playscript

Focus Text : Journey To The River Sea by Eva Ibbotson

Writing Outcomes

• Diary Entry
• Setting Description
• Holiday Leaflet

Focus Text : Alma- Literacy Shed (Transition To Year 6)

The River – Valerie Bloom

Writing Outcomes

• Narrative – Ghost Story
• Personification Poetry

Maths

Topic:

• Place value
• Addition and Subtraction
• Statistics
• Geometry
• Perimeter

Topic:

• Multiplying & Dividing by 10, 100, 1,000
• Converting measure
• Written Multiplication
• Geometry
• Rectilinear &
• 2d shape

Topic:

• Fractions
• Equivalents
• + and –
• Ordering

Topic:

• FDP
• Equivalents
• + and –
• Ordering

Topic:

• Multiplication and Division
• Factor pairs
• Written methods

Topic:

• Multiplication and Division
• Geometry
• Area and Perimeter (compound)
• Volume
• Position and Direction

Science

Topic:

Animals Including Humans

SOS Topic 3

Circle of life

Topic:

Space

SOS Topic 1

Out of this world

Topic:

Properties and changes of materials

SOS Topic 2

Material World

Topic:

Animals Including Humans

SOS Topic 5

Growing Up & Old

Topic:

Properties and changes of materials

SOS Topic 3

Amazing Changes

Topic:

Forces

SOS Topic 4

Let’s Get Moving

Computing

Topic:

Computer Science

‘Hello, World’

Video Game Development

Topic:

Computer Science

‘Hello, World’

Video Game Development

Topic:

Computer Science

‘Go Robot!’

Physical system game development L1

Topic:

Computer Science

‘Go Robot!’

Physical system game development L1

Topic:

Digital Literacy

Creative Computing L3

Movie Trailer

Topic:

Topic

Topic:

Anglo Saxons

Topic:

Mapping Great Britain

Topic:

Vikings

Topic:

Rivers

Topic:

Tudor England

Topic:

Australia

P.E.

Indoor Athletics

Hockey

Orienteering

Gymnastics

Basketball

Dance

Cricket

Dodgeball

Athletics

Gymnastics

Tennis

Handball

Art / DT

Dragon Art

Rockets

Viking Houses

Landscapes

Food Technology

Aboriginal Art