Year 5
Learning
Challenge
Trip/Workshop
Were the Anglo
Saxons really
smashing?
1 week residential
October
Autumn 2
Is there anyone out
there?
In: Space Dome
Recount
Newspaper report (moon
landing)
Science
Narrative
Gravenhunger
Purpose to entertain
Recount
Diary
newspaper
English Unit
Why has
Greece always
been in the
News?
Emergency First
Aid
Greek Day
British
Museum
ICT -Persuade- Letter
writing (Barons
writing to King John)
Explain the
importance of the
magna carta.
Alfred the Great biography
What can you tell about the
way of life from the Sutton
Hoo discovery?
Light
Why fight for
freedom?
(linked to RRS)
The fight for
Freedom 1215201(TM)
Anglo Saxons
History/Geograph
y
Year 5 Overview 2016-2017
Spring 1
Spring
Earth and Space
Purpose: to inform
(UFO sightings, moon
landings)
The Highwayman
Purpose: to describe
( character& setting) to
explain (love letter) , to
entertain (final verse)
Ancient Greeks
Inform – Create an
information text on
the Ancient Greeks
Forces
The Island by
Amin Greder
Purpose: to
discuss
Rose Blanche
(purpose: to
explain, advise
and describe diary entry
Performance
poetry linked to
Magna Carta
Summer 1
Summer 2
Walking the
Amazon – Will it
always be there?
Walking the Amazon – Will it
always be there?
Wild Court Rainforest
Link to habitats
Environmental link
– How does
deforestation affect
Global Warming
Animals Including
Humans.
Pandora’s Box
Purpose:
to persuade
The Vanishing
Rainforest By
Richard Platt
Greek Myths
Purpose-To
describe The
Minotaur, the
labyrinth,
Medusa, other
mythical
creatures
Purpose: to
instruct:
instructions
related to Greek
cuisine (eg a
recipe, a menu,
food blog, food
guide
Street Child, Belie
Doherty
Purpose: to
describe and
entertain –
character
descriptions, letters
in role, diary , final
chapter
The Piano (4
weeks)
Purpose: to
entertain
Film narrative
Geog
Map work on the length of
Amazon river, Countries travels
through.
Local History / Themed Week
Autumn 1
Properties of Materials
Poetry: Poetic Style
The Frozen Man by Kit Wright
I saw a peacock with a fiery taleanon (3 weeks)
Friend or Foe by Michael
Morpurgo (3 weeks)
Maths
Number / Using and
Applying
Place Value - including
decimals, see fractions
Multiplication and
Division
Art
Art/DT
Anglo Saxon
Brooches
Anglo Saxon houses
Computing
Control Technology –
Flowoll
Link to the Saxons
Addition and
Subtraction
Geometry - 2D and 3D
shape
Fractions
DT
Moving vehicles: Moon
buggies
Instruct-How to make a
Moon buggy.
Link to next term’s
Computing.
Film Making
(Stubbington)
Multiplication and
Division
Fractions
Position and
Direction
Dt
Mechanisms
and Levers
Purpose: to
inform (Ancient
Greek Olympic
games) eg news
report, non chron
report
Measures,
including
problem solving
Place value negative numbers
and problems
DT/Art
Greek
temples/weaving
Explain- How to make
a Greek temple.
Art Greek Pots
Cooking Unit
Scratch and
Crumble
programming –
Automating a
space buggy. Link
to last term’s DT
and Science.
Movie Maker –
Links with Greek
Myths
Sketch Up –
Temple Building
Fact File research
on Ancient
Greece.
PSHE/RE
PSHE- Who decides?
PSHE- password
security
PSHE-We are all
different? (anti bullying
week)
PSHE-Why do we
take risks?
ICT link – spam
PSHE-What does
‘community’
mean? And
Democracy
Geometry - angles
Statistics
Fractions
Art –Henri Rouseau
Jungle art
Creating a large
scale class
collage.
Revision
Ratio and Scaling
Algebra
Art –Henri Rouseau
Jungle art
Creating a large scale class
collage.
E-Safety/Word
Processing
Persuade - Letter
writing to logging
company to persuade
them to stop the
logging/ranch farming.
PSHE -What’s in the
news? (wider
world)
Picture perfect (body image)
PSHE-It’s my body SRE
PSHE –Fair Trade
RE – What do people believe
happens after someone dies?
Learning Challenge Curriculum
PE
Music
French
RE-How did it all start?
Creation
RE- Stories of Justice in
Christianity, Islam and
Judaism
RE -Introduction
to Islam (Including
5 pillars)
Tennis/Hockey/Gym
Football/Rugby/ Health
Related Fitness
Dance/Netball/
Dodgeball
Rounds Singing and
playing Music express
Weather - Seasons/
days of the week
/months of the year etc
Telling the time-daily
timetables in school .
Sums in French –
Space soundmakers
Music express
Les Planetes- linked to
space topic. Mimi la
fourmi de l'espace
Christmas story –Le
Premier Noel
Cyclic patterns
Music express
French place
names around
Europe.
Numbers –
multiples of 10 to
100
ICT link – positive
choices
Peer mentor
applications
Emergency First Aid
training –(Health
and well being)
Hockey/
Basketball/
Rhythmic Dance
Cricket/Rounders/
Swimming
Songwriter Ocean
of mystery Music
express
Stars, hide your
fires Music express
Letter writing to
French school
Introduce and talk
about your family
members.
Parts of the body
What are you
wearing?
Assess learning
from the year
Also see Death Ceremonies
Planning from Hants
Games/Athletics/
Line Dancing
Yanomamo Music – ‘Song of the
Forest’
Summer Production songs
Names of small creatures - linked
to previous years’ science 'Living
things and their habitats'.