2015-16
FOCUS –
SCIENCE
ICT
GEOG
HISTORY
AUTUMN –Year 5
How different would my life be if I had been
born in 1837?
SPRING – Year 5
How long does the Amazon have left?
How do trees make us wet?
SUMMER – Year 5
How old is your mummy?
History: Victorians
History: Victorians
Geography: Brazil
Geography: Brazil
Why would a chocolate
tea-pot be of no use?
Properties and changes
of materials / changing
state
What do you know
about the Victorians?
research, presentation
Will we ever send
another human to the
moon or to Mars?
Space Dome
Do all animals and plants
start life as an egg?
Living things and their
habitats
How different will you
be when you are as old
as your grandparents?
Life Cycles
Who is the best code
breaker?
coding/scratch
Why go to Brazil?
(Movie Maker)
multimedia
presentations
How do trees make us
wet?
Kapok Tree / rainforest
Kew gardens
What does the
rainforest sound like?
(Audacity)
Are there any
daddies?
(databases)
Are all Pharaohs villains?
Offline web page
Why is Brazil in the
news today?
Deforestation
Rio – world cup
Who is stealing our
coastline?
Where have all the
fields gone?
(local land use since
Victorian era)
Weetabix stacks-erosion
Were the Anglo-Saxons
really smashing? Simulated
dig-artefacts
Were there any daddies in
Egypt?
BBC history Ancient History
Egyptians pyramids and
monuments/Mummify
Children & time capsule burial
Were there any daddies in Egypt?
BBC history Ancient History
Egyptians pyramids and
monuments/Mummify Children &
time capsule burial
Spring
Ever wanted to be in
service?
Preston Manor-Working
Museum
What might Oliver Twist
have seen in
Sutton/Croydon?
Local walk
Victorian Day
History and
Geography: Ancient
Egypt, River Nile
History and Geography:
Ancient Egypt, River Nile
Can you feel the force?
Forces
DT
Were the Victorians
silly people wearing daft
clothes? Sewing
Did the Victorians have
Playstations?
cam toys
ART &
DESIGN
Linked to Victorian
topic
Why do we raise a glass
to William Morris?
Creating Morris
wallpaper
What does Brazil look
like?
Collage of Brazilian
images/rainforest
classroom
What did and AngloSaxon bathroom look
like? Tesselation How
can we write words in
pictures?
What are these
strange markings?
Hieroglyphic printing
PE
Games (Tag Rugby)
Dance
Games(Tag Rugby)
Dance
Gym / Pop Lacrosse
OAA Osmington Bay
Gym/Poplacrosse
Athletics/cricket/basketba
ll linked to School Olympics
Stories by significant
authors – Street child
Recounts
Week
Instructions
How can we keep
healthy?
Assessment week
Narrative poem –
Highwayman (3 weeks)
Who is the
Highwayman?
Recap on journalistic
writing – interview
highwayman
Narrative Unit 2
Traditional stories and
Fables, Myths and
legends
Mission
Book week
Stories from other
cultures
Explanations (3 weeks)
Athletics/cricket/da
nce – linked to
School Olympics
Persuasive texts (4
weeks)
Descriptive writing
Assessment
Cello/ Violin Tuition
Musical appreciation and
composing/drumming
Cello/ Violin Tuition
Musical appreciation
and
composing/drumming
Cello/ Violin Tuition
Musical appreciation
and
composing/drumming
Cello/ Violin Tuition
Musical appreciation and
composing/drumming
English-Linked
to history
Recounts
Assessment week
RE
Music
MFL
Ourselves
Other
faiths
Cello/ Violin Tuition
Musical appreciation
and
composing/drumming
Life
Advent
choices
Cello/ Violin Tuition
Musical appreciation
and
composing/drumming
How would you dress
for carnival?
French Conversation /drama/music
What shape did mummies
like?
3D pyramids with flaps
Legends & Myths linked
Egyptians
Writing linked to cross
curricular projects