Boothroyd Primary Academy
Curriculum Information for Parents & Carers
Year 5
There is a requirement for all schools to publish the outline curriculum for each year group
on their website. It is impossible to publish details of every aspect of the curriculum. This
document outlines the key content. Staff will always be very happy to discuss the
content of the curriculum in more detail with any parent or carer. It should be noted that
the details below are the ‘standard curriculum’ requirements; we constantly differentiate
these to support and extend all pupils.
Date updated: September 2015
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Summarise main points of an argument or discussion within their
reading & make up own mind about issue/s.
Can compare between two texts.
Appreciate that people use bias in persuasive writing.
Appreciate how two people may have a different view on the
same event.
Draw inferences and justify with evidence from the text.
Vary voice for direct or indirect speech.
Recognise clauses within sentences
Uses more than one source when carrying out research.
Create set of notes to summarise what has been read.
Add phrases to make sentences more precise & detailed.
Use range of sentence openers – judging the impact or effect
needed.
Begin to adapt sentence structure to text type.
Use pronouns to avoid repetition.
Use:
o Brackets.
o Dashes.
o Commas.
Use commas to clarify meaning or avoid ambiguity.
Link clauses in sentences using a range of subordinating &
coordinating conjunctions.
Use verb phrases to create subtle differences (e.g. she began to
run).
Consistently organize into paragraphs.
Link ideas across paragraphs using adverbials of time (e.g. later),
place (e.g. nearby) and number (e.g. secondly).
Use legible and fluent handwriting style.
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Count forwards & backward with positive & negative numbers
through zero.
Count forwards/backwards in steps of powers of 10 for any given
number up to 1000000.
Compare & order numbers with 3 decimal places.
Read Roman numerals to 1000.
Identify all multiples & factors, including finding all factor pairs.
Use known tables to derive other number facts.
Recall prime numbers up to 19.
Recognise place value of any number up to 1000000.
Round any number up to 1000000 to the nearest 10, 100, 1000,
10000 or 100000.
Round decimals with two decimal places to nearest whole
number & 1dp.
Add & subtract:
o Numbers with more than 4-digits using efficient written
method (column).
o Numbers with up to 2dp.
Multiply:
o 4-digits by 1-digit/ 2-digit
Divide:
o 4-digits by 1-digit
Multiply & divide:
o Whole numbers & decimals by 10, 100 & 1000
Count up/down in thousandths.
Recognise mixed numbers & improper fractions & convert from
one to another.
Multiply proper fractions & mixed numbers by whole numbers.
Solve time problems using timetables and converting between
different units of time.
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Living things and their habitats: which animals depend on
each other for survival, lifecycles of frogs and butterflies,
different animals are born in different ways, how humans
change, plant lifecycles.
Animals including humans: what can we do at different
stages of life, how do we keep fit and healthy, life
expectancy of different animals.
Properties and changes of materials: changing and reversing
materials, dissolving and evaporating, reversible and
irreversible, bicarbonate of soda and its impact on materials,
Earth and Space: describe the movement of the Earth, and
other planets, relative to the Sun in the solar system, describe
the movement of the Moon relative to the Earth, describe the
Sun, Earth and Moon as approximately spherical bodies, use
the idea of the Earth’s rotation to explain day and night and
the apparent movement of the sun across the sky.
Forces: explain that unsupported objects fall towards the
Earth because of the force of gravity acting between the
Earth and the falling object, identify the effects of air
resistance, water resistance and friction, that act between
moving surfaces, recognise that some mechanisms, including
levers, pulleys and gears, allow a smaller force to have a
greater effect.
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To create a silent movie about America.
To use scratch software to create games through coding.
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Who the Anglo Saxons were and how they have influenced
our life.
Anglo-Saxon law and order.
Anglo Saxon artefacts from Sutton Hoo.
Alfred the Great and why he was so great.
English Civil War: who the Roundheads and cavaliers were.
The execution of Charles 1st and why it was so major.
Why the Great fire of London was one of the best things that
happened to London.
Who Samuel Pepys was.Who the Ancient Greeks were and
what we learnt from them.
Greek myths and Greek Gods.
How Ancient Greece was divided and the war between
Sparta and Athens.
How the Olympic games were created in Ancient Greece.
Who the Native Americans were.
What are Greece’s physical features and climate.
Why people enjoy going on holiday to Greece.
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Who the president of the USA is and the climate of the USA.
Why New York is one of the world’s most visited cities.
How America is divided into states and one will be
researched.
What sports do the American’s play.
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What fruits and natural resources Brazil are famous for.
Brazil’s famous cities and why they attract tourists.
Brazil’s neighbouring countries.
Brazil’s street children.
A famous Brazilian.
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Where the main rainforests are located, their main features
and how important they are.
Why rainforests are often in the news and what we can do to
help.
Endangered animals in the rainforest and how we can help
them.
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Who Andy Warhol was and his and creating a portrait of the
president.
Creating Greek pot drawings and their own clay pots.
Design and create a collage of Brazilian symbols.
To create a class rainforest.
To create prints using large leaves of rainforests as inspiration.
Anglo Saxon tessellation art.
Create clay tiles to recreate the fire of London.
Create art from the environment: science link.
Draw and sketch themselves and a grandparent.
Use finger prints, hand prints and foot prints to create art work
with an interesting pattern.
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Creating their own planets for science.
Create a rainforest shelter.
Create a model Anglo Saxon settlement.
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Cyclic patterns: exploring rhythm and pulse using African
drums.
Using a variety of musical instruments to follow basic music
notes.
Using percussion instruments to create a space journey.
Song writing and creating a melody to accompany it.
Learning to perform together.
Brazil’s famous Samba dancing.
Variety of games: invasion, striking and fielding and net and
wall.
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