Autumn 1
Literacy
Classic Narrative Poem - The Highwayman
Use the narrative poem The Highwayman to identify features that poets use for effect. Study the use of historical language, adverbials and relative clauses to add details. Chn learn part of the poem by heart, compare it to other poems and write a
new ending.
Discussion Texts - Doctor Who
Tune into the language features of discussion texts by investigation of subject vocabulary, connectives and generalisers, sentence and text structure. Children will
explore examples of discussion texts leading onto the planning and writing of their
own.
SPaG
Connecting Clauses
Identifying main clauses, subjects and associated verb. Children generate main
clauses and add subordinate clauses using connectives. Connecting adverbials
Direct Speech
Identifying correct and incorrect examples of direct speech. Identifying missing
punctuation and adding correct speech punctuation. Children freeze frame and write
what the characters could be saying using the correct punctuation
Nouns & Pronouns
Children spot and replace repeated subjects. Identifying ambiguity caused by pronouns and correcting
Maths
Number and place value, Mental multiplication and division, Decimals, Percentages
and their equivalence to fractions, Fractions, ratio and proportion. Mental addition
and subtraction, Written addition and subtraction, Problem solving, reasoning and
algebra. Measurement. Written multiplication and division.
Science
Living Things and Their Habitats - Classifying Organisms
Describe how living things are classified into broad groups according to common observable characteristics and based on similarities and differences, including microorganisms, plants and animals. Give reasons for classifying plants and animals
based on specific characteristics.
Topic
Crime and Punishment
Understand the broad trends of crime and punishment from the Romans to the 21st
century. Explore crime and punishment in the Roman, Anglo-Saxon, Viking, Medieval, Tudor, Early Modern and Victorian periods and compare to today.
ICT
Website Designers - Google Sites
Basic information about how the internet works. How a website is structured. How to
construct a website using images and text. How to search the internet intelligently.
E-Safety
Talking Safely Online
French
Introduction To French
Greetings, names, numbers to 20, colours and classroom objects.
PE
Tag Rugby
Throwing and catching the ball, intercepting the pass, pass at speed, defending, attacking.
Music
‘Un-square Dance’ by David Brubeck: Explore counting in different metres.
Learn the rhythm of a bass ostinato and a syncopated clapping ostinato for improvised solos.
Art/DT
Kandinsky
Life and work of Kandinsky. Consider tones, colour and shapes as well as looking at
complimentary and oppositional colours together. Investigate the different styles
Kandinsky has adopted such as concentric circles of colour on squared paper.
RE
Jewish Worship and Community
An insight into Judaism including a brief history of Judaism, the features of Jewish
worship, what it means to belong to the Jewish community and the Jewish contribution to the wider community.
PSHE
It’s Our World
Devising a class charter. Understanding democracy. Environmental awareness and
responsibility. Climate change. Sustainability issues.
Study
Skills
Handwriting. Touch-typing. Text organisation and presentation, Comprehension.
Activity
Lesson
Smart Moves
Profile chn’s motor co-ordination ability to identify where OT like interventions are required
A tailored programme linked to the PE curriculum and supports the three key areas:
gymnastics, games and dance.
Half Term
Autumn 2
Literacy
Chronological Texts - When Jessie Came Across the Sea & Mr George Baker
Discuss the features of chronological report writing, revise punctuation and study
past tenses including the perfect form and active/passive voices. Children write an
article, a sister story and a biography.
Explanation Texts - Extinct Animals
Tune into the language features of explanation texts by investigation of causal language and text structure. Chn will explore examples of explanation texts leading onto the planning and writing of their own.
SPaG
Possessive Apostrophes
Singular nouns and noun phrases put into plural form. Pluralised phrases made possessive and put into sentences. Chn use the possessive apostrophe correctly and
create signs with correct use.
The Present Perfect Tense
Chn sort sentences into simple past and present perfect. Chn identify time expressions. Chn use conjunctions and time expressions to give a presentation
Time & Cause
Chn sort conjunctions, adverbials, connecting adverbials and prepositions. Chn describe a character and identify time and cause words. Chn use ‘when’ and ‘why’ to
create phrases and clauses
Maths
Number and place value, Problem solving, reasoning and algebra, Fractions ratio
and proportion. Measurement, Geometry; properties of shapes. Mental multiplication
and division, Written multiplication and division. Decimals, percentages and their
equivalence to fractions.
Science
Electricity - Changing Circuits
Associate the brightness of a lamp or the volume of a buzzer with the number and
voltage of cells used in the circuit. Compare and give reasons for variations in how
components function, including the brightness of bulbs, the loudness of buzzers and
the on/off position of switches. Use recognised symbols when representing a simple
circuit in a diagram
Topic
Crime and Punishment
Understand the broad trends of crime and punishment from the Romans to the 21st
century. Explore crime and punishment in the Roman, Anglo-Saxon, Viking, Medieval, Tudor, Early Modern and Victorian periods and compare to today.
ICT
Magic Maths Quiz - Scratch
Design, write and debug programs that accomplish specific goals, use sequence, selection, and repetition in programs; work with variables and various forms of input
and output.
E-Safety
Super Digital Citizen
French
Parts of the Body
Jacque a dit!
PE
Hockey
Using both sides of the hockey stick, dribbling, passing, receiving, scoring, attack
and defend, different roles
Music
Singing
In preparation for Christmas carol concert.
Art/DT
Perspective Drawing
Use a ruler to create a plan for drawing a picture with one point perspective.
Children compare artists who draw/paint different features in their work and how
they use perspective.
RE
Jewish Celebrations
Chn learn about Passover, Sukkoth, Purim, Hanukkah and Rosh Hashanah, and how
each of these festivals reveals and explains Jewish beliefs and teachings.
PSHE
Say No!
Drugs Education
Risk taking and dealing with pressure. Legal and illegal drugs. Say no to smoking.
Attitudes to alcohol. Keeping safe in my local area: say no to knives. Anti-bullying
Study
Skills
Handwriting. Touch-typing. Text organisation and presentation, Comprehension.
Activity
Lesson
Business Enterprise
Chn will design and create their own business innovation learning skills such as:
marketing, finance, research and product planning.
Christmas
Spring 1
Literacy
Classic Novels - The Hobbit
Through The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien, investigate settings, character development,
dialogue & narrative style. Writing includes: dramatisation, playing with point-ofview & writing a 'Lost Tale'. Grammar includes: complex sentences, relative clauses
and elaboration.
Information Texts - Dragons
Tune into the language features of information texts by investigation of subject vocabulary, connectives & generalisers and sentence & text structure. Chn will explore
examples of information texts leading onto the planning and writing of their own.
SPaG
Conjunctions
Using co-ordinating and subordinating conjunctions
Adjectives and adjectival
Maths
Number and place value, Written addition and subtraction. Decimals, percentages
and their equivalence to fractions, Fractions, ratio and proportion. Mental multiplication and division, Written multiplication and division, Problem solving, reasoning and
algebra. Geometry; properties of shapes. Mental addition and subtraction, Written
addition and subtraction.
Science
Changes and Reproduction
Discuss why living things need to reproduce and look in detail at human life cycle,
comparing with other animals. Study physical and emotional changes at puberty.
Describe the changes as human develop to old age. Research rites of passage
throughout human life cycle. Look at sexually transmitted diseases (particularly HIV
/ Aids).
Topic
Extreme Earth
Identify the position and significance of latitude, longitude, Equator, Northern Hemisphere, Southern Hemisphere, the Tropics of Cancer and Capricorn, Arctic and Antarctic Circle, the Prime/Greenwich Meridian and time zones (including day and
night). Describe and understand key aspects of physical geography, including: climate zones, biomes and vegetation belts, rivers, mountains, volcanoes and earthquakes, and the water cycle. Describe and understand key aspects of human geography, including: types of settlement and land use, economic activity including trade
links, and the distribution of natural resources including energy, food, minerals and
water.
ICT
Maze Games - Scratch
Decomposition as a way of analysing how a programme works. How to create simple
programming blocks that link input to output. Making blocks of programming which
complement each other. Using a variety of inputs to control different outputs. Planning, testing and refining algorithms.
E-Safety
Privacy Rules
French
Consolidation of Greetings and Parts of the Body
c’est/it is and J’ai/I have, ’er’ Verbs
Describing Family Members
PE
Football
Dribbling, receiving, short passing, long passing, defending, attacking, set pieces,
keeping shape, close control
Music
Stamping Tubes
An introduction to boomwhackers. Create layers and texture in music with a focus
on high and low pitch.
Art/DT
Extreme Earth
Investigate The Great Wave by Hokusai, Woodblock printing. Twister pictures using
line and shading to create a 3D illusion.
Design, make and evaluate a secure and waterproof shelter.
Design, make and evaluate their own interactive info-box for a particular purpose.
RE
How People Express Their Faith Through the Arts
Chn find out how, why and when music, drama and art are used in religions around
the world.
PSHE
Growing Up
Sex and Relationships Education
Puberty and reproduction. Relationships and reproduction. Conception and pregnancy. Being a parent. Common responses to change. Transition and moving on
Study
Skills
Handwriting, Touch-typing, Zones of Regulation
Activity
Lesson
Swimming
Half Term
Spring 2
Literacy
Recount Texts - Extreme Earth
Tune into the language features of recount texts by investigation of vocabulary,
connectives and text structure. Chn will explore examples of recount texts leading
onto the planning and writing of their own.
Instruction Texts - Mythical Creatures
Tune into the language features of instruction texts by investigation of subject vocabulary, connectives and sentence & text structure. Chn will explore examples of
instruction texts leading onto the planning and writing of their own.
SPaG
Adverbs and adverbials
Using adverbs to indicate degrees of possibility. Using adverbials to express time
and cause. Identifying and using fronted adverbials.
Model verbs
Using modal verbs to indicate degrees of possibility.
Apostrophes
Understanding how to use an apostrophe and indicate possession by using possessive apostrophes with singular and plural nouns.
Maths
Mental addition and subtraction, Written addition and subtraction, Problem solving,
reasoning and algebra. Statistics, Decimals, percentages and their equivalence to
fractions. Geometry; position and direction, Number and place value, Geometry;
properties of shapes. Written multiplication and division. Fractions, ratio and proportion.
Science
Changes and Reproduction
Discuss why living things need to reproduce and look in detail at human life cycle,
comparing with other animals. Study physical and emotional changes at puberty.
Describe the changes as human develop to old age. Research rites of passage
throughout human life cycle. Look at sexually transmitted diseases (particularly HIV
/ Aids).
Topic
Extreme Earth
Identify the position and significance of latitude, longitude, Equator, Northern Hemisphere, Southern Hemisphere, the Tropics of Cancer and Capricorn, Arctic and Antarctic Circle, the Prime/Greenwich Meridian and time zones (including day and
night). Describe and understand key aspects of physical geography, including: climate zones, biomes and vegetation belts, rivers, mountains, volcanoes and earthquakes, and the water cycle. Describe and understand key aspects of human geography, including: types of settlement and land use, economic activity including trade
links, and the distribution of natural resources including energy, food, minerals and
water.
ICT
Spreadsheets and Databases - Microsoft Excel and 2Investigate
Identifying spreadsheets and their functions to create graphs and workout calculations. Use databases to sort data, carry out searches, answer questions from
searches and creating their own database from scratch.
E-Safety
What’s Cyberbullying?
French
Sports and Hobbies
J’aime, je n’aime pas, Je joue (I play)/ je fais (I do)/ je regard (I look)/ j’écoute (I
listen). ‘Tu’ form.
PE
Basketball
Dribbling, passing, pivoting, jump stopping, shooting, attacking, defending
Music
Rounds: Sing and play rounds within a variety of genres. Particular emphasis on
harmonies. Xylophones.
Art/DT
Design and make models of mythical beasts:
Children gain a sound understanding of how balance, shape and form effect sculptural construction using this in their sculptural work, which includes some organic
shapes.
RE
Stories of Christianity
Chn learn about Christianity through some less familiar Bible stories. Chn recap stories such as Noah’s Ark or the Christmas story and explore different aspects of the
Christian faith by meeting characters including Ruth, Daniel, John the Baptist and
Paul.
PSHE
Who Likes Chocolate?
Rich and poor nations. Trade across the world. Global footprint. Food shortages and
hunger. Fairness and responsibility. Reporting the news.
Study
Skills
Handwriting, Touch-typing, Zones of Regulation.
Activity
Lesson
Swimming
Easter
Summer 1 Literacy
Tales From Other Cultures - The Arabian Nights
Use Animated Tales and written stories from The Arabian Nights to inspire chn to rewrite Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves from a different point of view and to create a
playscript based on a Sinbad story. Introduce chn to the Tales of Nasrettin Hodja.
Chn write a tale of their own. In their writing chn use dialogue, the subjunctive form
and informal language features.
SPaG
Prepositional phrases
Expanded noun phrases
Recognising simple and expanded noun phrases and use simple noun phrases to
convey precise information concisely. Using expanded noun phrases to convey complicated information concisely in a manner appropriate to the context.
Maths
Number and place value, Decimals, percentages and their equivalence to fractions.
Mental addition and subtraction, Written addition and subtraction, Fractions, ratio
and proportion, Problem solving, reasoning and algebra, Geometry; properties of
shapes. Written multiplication and division, Mental multiplication and division. Statistics, Geometry; position and direction.
Science
Seeing Light
Recognise that light appears to travel in straight lines. Use the idea that light travels
in straight lines to explain that objects are seen because they give out or reflect
light into the eye. Explain that we see things because light travels from light sources
to our eyes or from light sources to objects and then to our eyes. Use the idea that
light travels in straight lines to explain why shadows have the same shape as the
objects that cast them.
Topic
The Aztecs
Locate the world’s countries, using maps to focus on Europe (including the location
of Russia) and North and South America, concentrating on their environmental regions, key physical and human characteristics, countries, and major cities. Describe
and understand key aspects of physical geography, including: climate zones, biomes
and vegetation belts, rivers, mountains, volcanoes and earthquakes, and the water
cycle. Use maps, atlases, globes and digital/computer mapping to locate countries
and describe features studied. A non-European society that provides contrasts with
British history – one study chosen from: early Islamic civilisation, including a study
of Baghdad c. AD 900; Mayan civilisation c. AD 900; Benin (West Africa) c. AD 9001300
ICT
Making a 3D Model - SketchUp
Drawing and manipulating a number of 3D components to create a finished 3D
model. Adding layers of colour and texture to make their 3D models look more authentic. Examining models from different angles and positions. Publishing their models through image files or animated video walkthroughs.
E-Safety
Selling Stereotypes
French
Food and Drink
How to ask, how to enquire about price etc.
PE
Athletics
Sprint, distance running, standing long jump, long jump, javelin, shot put, cricket
throw, hurdles.
Music
Song structure
Listen to a variety of genres. Learn the convention of Song structure: Verse, Chorus
Compose lyrics to match melodies. Melodies to match lyrics.
Art/DT
Light
Creating silhouette portraits.
Aztec Feasts
Children follow Aztec recipes to make Aztec guacamole, salsa and hot chocolate.
Children design, make and evaluate their own Aztec-style tortilla wrap.
RE
Aztec Views and Beliefs
Marriage, Gods, Afterlife, Sacrifice, Story of the ‘Place of the Prickly Pear Cactus’ and
‘Journey of a Princess’.
PSHE
People Around Us
National, religious and ethnic identities in the UK. Different types of relationships.
Stereotyping and judgement. Put-downs and conflict. Ending friendships. Forgiveness.
Study
Skills
Handwriting. Touch-typing. Memory. Understanding short term and long term
memory. Exploring and applying strategies to enhance memory. Enhancing self esteem.
Activity
Lesson
Year 5/6 Production
Half Term
Summer 2 Literacy
Persuasive Texts - Local Attractions
Tune into the language features of persuasive texts by investigation of persuasive
connectives and sentence signposts and text structure. Chn will explore examples of
persuasive texts leading onto the planning and writing of their own.
SpaG
Relative clauses
Using relative clauses beginning with ’who, which, where, when, why, whose and
whom’.
Brackets and dashes
Identifying and composing parenthesis, indicating it with brackets, dashes or commas.
Maths
Number and place value, Fractions, ratio and proportion, Measurement. Geometry;
properties of shapes, Statistics. Problem solving, reasoning and algebra, Geometry;
position and direction, Written multiplication and division.
Science
Evolution and Inheritance
Recognise that living things have changed over time and that fossils provide information about living things that inhabited the Earth millions of years ago. Recognise
that living things produce offspring of the same kind, but normally offspring vary
and are not identical to their parents. Identify how animals and plants are adapted
to suit their environment in different ways and that adaptation may lead to evolution.
Topic
The Aztecs
Locate the world’s countries, using maps to focus on Europe (including the location
of Russia) and North and South America, concentrating on their environmental regions, key physical and human characteristics, countries, and major cities. Describe
and understand key aspects of physical geography, including: climate zones, biomes
and vegetation belts, rivers, mountains, volcanoes and earthquakes, and the water
cycle. Use maps, atlases, globes and digital/computer mapping to locate countries
and describe features studied. A non-European society that provides contrasts with
British history – one study chosen from: early Islamic civilisation, including a study
of Baghdad c. AD 900; Mayan civilisation c. AD 900; Benin (West Africa) c. AD 9001300
ICT
Podcasts - Audacity
Writing a script using online collaboration. How to record, edit and manipulate
sound. How to find and use copyright free material from the internet. How to upload
an audio file to the internet and embed it into a blog post.
E-Safety
Selling Stereotypes
French
Food and Drink
How to ask, how to enquire about price etc.
PE
Tennis
Forehand, Backhand, Vollies, Serves, Match play
Music
Boomwhacker Workshop
Art/DT
Weaving
Children build their own looms to try weaving like the Aztecs did.
Creative Calendars
Children create their own Aztec calendar to measure the days using a sunstone.
Dioramas
Children design and make their own 3D model showing a scene from Aztec life.
RE
Aztec Views and Beliefs
Marriage, Gods, Afterlife, Sacrifice, Story of the ‘Place of the Prickly Pear Cactus’ and
‘Journey of a Princess’.
PSHE
Money Matters
Earning money. Value for money. Lending and borrowing money. Achieving goals.
Deductions and expenses. Poverty.
Study
Skills
Handwriting. Touch-typing. Memory. Understanding short term and long term
memory. Exploring and applying strategies to enhance memory. Enhancing self esteem.
Activity
Lesson
Year 5/6 Production