Curriculum Map Autumn 2 2016 - Year 5
English
Maths
Science
Week 1: The last days of Beowulf - First person recounts
Week 2 & 3: Non chronological reports linked to weather topic
Week 3: scripts Christmas Carol By Charles Dickens - Play Scripts
Week 4: To change a traditional story into a play script
Week 5: The Little Match Stick Girl
Week 6: To improve sentences using adverbial phrases
Week 7: Using personification in sentences
Spelling Patterns: Week 1 – 2: words ending in -ible and -able
Week 3 – 4: Words ending in –ant, –ance/–ancy, –ent, –ence/–ency
Weeks 5 – 6: Homophones
Grammar: Active and passive sentences, using passive verbs to affect
the presentation, modal verbs.
Week 1: Place Value problem solving
Week 2: Mental addition and subtraction – reasoning and problem
solving
Week 3: Add and Subtract written method with problem solving and
and rounding to check answers
Week 4: Multiples, factors, square and cubed
Week 5: Formal written multiplication and division
Week 6: Multiplication and Division with problem solving
Week 7: Statistics – reasoning and problem solving
Week 1: Continue precious topic - forces
Week 2: levers and pulleys
Week 3: Materials and their properties
Week 4: Solids
Week 5: Liquids
Week 6: Gases
Week 7: Changes of state
PSHE: Celebrating Differences
The Big Idea
Differences in weather and climate affect our daily
lives and lifestyles. We would like to think we can
control the weather but in truth it controls us.
Influencing where we live, what we can do, the clothes
we wear and even what we can eat. In this unit the
class will be finding out about the differences in
weather and climate and the role they play in the lives
of everyone on the planet.
Art and Design
Week 1: Accepting that everyone is different
Week 2: Including others in work and play
Week 3: Supporting others in difficult times
Week 4: Trying to solve problems
Week 5: Using kind words with others
Week 6: Knowing how to give and receive
Geography
Week 3: Using maps in different ranges and scales
Week 4: Investigating human and natural features and climate
Week 5: Exploring how changes in weather / climate impact upon
human activities
International
Week 6: To explore how peoples' lives are affected by the actions of
other people living in different countries. – global warming from
industrial waste and smoke et
Music
Week 2: Weather songs
Use of tuned and un-tuned percussion instruments to provide
thought and feeling of different
weathers
Topic:
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Entry Point: 10 November - Extreme weather
Exit Point: Week beginning 12th December (Open
Afternoon for parent/carers - TBC)
Design Technology
Week 7:
Investigating weather vanes and anemometers
Designing and making their own functional anemometer to measure
wind speed
Evaluating finished products
Assembly: 2nd December (parents/carers
welcome!)
PE
ICT
MFL: French
Food
Week 1-7: Swimming
Week 1-7
Using Green Screen
Technology to make a weather
presentation as on TV
Week 1: To learnt about food in French
Week 2: To use food vocabulary in sentence
Week 3: To build complex sentences
Week 4: To create a menu in French
Week 5: To edit the menu with publisher
Week 6: To continue to edit the menu with publisher
Week 7: To learn about Christmas Celebration in France
Week 1-7: Games: Net Court/Wall
E-Safety: What are the risks of
using the internet?
November 2016
Week 7:
Investigating designs of weather vanes and what they were/are used
for
Designing and drawing their own weather vane