Context for Learning Topic Web
Include: Launch activity / Lead subject – main learning points / Subsidiary (linked) subjects – main learning points / Links to English and (if applicable) Maths
Knowledge and Understanding (Science,
Geography)
• Properties & Changes of Materials
• Compare and group together everyday materials on the
basis of their properties, including their hardness,
solubility, transparency, conductivity (electrical and
thermal) and response to magnets
• Know that some materials will dissolve in liquid to form a
solution, and describe how to recover a substance from
a solution
• Use knowledge of solids, liquids and gases to decide
how mixtures might be separated, including through
filtering sieving and evaporating
• Demonstrate that dissolving, mixing and changes of state
are reversible changes
• Explain that some changes result in the formation of new
materials and that this kind of change is not usually
reversible, including changes associated with burning
and the action of acid on bicarbonate of soda
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Music
• Listen and appraise music by classical and modern American
composers
• First Access- introduction to jazz
• Glockenspiels performance
• Two part harmony in 3rd’s
• Music from around the world on the Learnpads
Year 5 Spring –
The Americas
Brazil focus
On a world map, locate areas of similar environmental
regions, either desert, rainforest or temperate regions
Locate the main countries North or South America.
Locate and name principle cities
Identify climate zones, biomes and vegetation belts
Mountains and volcanoes – Describe some of the
physical characteristics (geomorphology)
Understand geographical similarities and differences
through the study of human (Focus on economic activity
including trade links) and physical geography of a region
within South America (Rio, Brazil)
Collect, analyse and communicate geographical
information in a variety of ways, including through maps,
numerical and quantitative skills and writing at length
Use and interpret a range of sources of geographical
information, including maps, diagrams, globes, aerial
photographs, Geographical Information Systems (GIS)
and digital/computer mapping (Google Earth)
MFL- French
• Listen attentively to spoken language and show
understanding by joining in and responding
• Speak in sentences, using familiar vocabulary,
phrases and basic language structures
• Develop accurate pronunciation and intonation so
that others understand when they are reading
aloud or using familiar words and phrases
• Broaden their vocabulary and develop their ability
to understand new words that are introduced into
familiar written material, including through using a
dictionary
• Mon corps
• Les animaux
Creative Development
Art
• Interpret environmental and man-made
patterns and form
• Design prints for fabrics, book covers or
wall paper
• Use impressed printing processes i.e. lino
or foam squares, foil etc
• Experiments with a variety of tools to
create pattern and texture
• Look at how to bond/attach pieces of clay
• Recreate 2D images in a 3D piece
• Looks at 3D work from a variety of cultures
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DT
• Take time to consider how I could have
made my idea better.
• Work at my product even though their
original idea might not have worked?
• Investigate products and images to
collect ideas
• Develop one idea in depth
• Record ideas using annotated diagrams
• Use found information to inform
discussions
• Evaluate using technical vocabulary
where known
• Consider and explain how the finished
product could be improved
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Computing
Fusing geometry and art
Develop an appreciation of the links
between geometry and art
Become familiar with the tools and
techniques of a vector graphics package
Develop an understanding of turtle
graphics
Experiment with the tools available,
refining and developing their work as
they apply their own criteria to evaluate
it and receive feedback from their peers
Develop some awareness of computer
generated art, in particular fractal-based
landscapes
Creating a website about cyber safety
Develop their research skills to decide
what information is appropriate
Understand some elements of how
search engines select and rank results
Question the plausibility and quality of
information
Develop their understanding of e-safety
P.E
• Athletics & Dance
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Cross country / Sprints
Dance – Under the Sea
R.E
MFL- Chinese
• Similar format to French
• Sikhism – Belief and moral values-Are Sikh stories
important today?
• Christianity – Beliefs and Values (Easter) Did god intend
Jesus to be crucified?
Literacy (Writing, Reading, Grammar)
SPaG
• Write using tense consistently and correctly throughout
• Identify which word, phrase or clause of a sentence they are
writing or proof reading needs parenthesis. Pupil can decide
whether brackets, dashes or commas are the most appropriate in
each case and uses all three confidently.
• Use devices to build cohesion including adverbials of time, place
and number
• Use relative clauses beginning with ‘who’, ‘which’, ‘where’, ‘why’
or ‘whose’.
Mathematics
Mental Mathematics
• Use doubling and halving as mental division/multi strategies (58
x 5 = half of 58 x 10)
• Use knowledge of factors and multiples in multiplication e.g (43
x 6 is double 43 x 3 and 28 x 50 is half of 28 x 100 = 1400)
• Identify all multiples and factors including finding all factor
pairs.
• Know 3x,4x,6x,8x table. Apply and extend
• Know square numbers and square roots up to 144.
Recall prime numbers upto 19
Reading
• Identify the intended audience and purpose for writing and choose
a suitable writing model to support their own writing
• Use dialogue, recognise differences between spoken & written
speech
• Maintain positive attitudes to reading and understanding of what
they read by: reading books that are structured in different ways
and reading for a range of purposes
• Take One Book- The Firework- Maker’s Daughter (Phillip Pullman)
Writing
• Writing in a variety of genres: chronological and non-chronological
reports linked to topic, persuasive writing and journalism
• Handwriting and presentation
• Fractions (Week 1-5)
• Compare and order fractions whose denominators are
multiples of the same number
• Decimals (Week 6-8)
• Read, write, order and compare numbers with up to
three decimal places
• Percentages (Week 9-11)
• Recognise the per cent symbol (%) and understand that
per cent relates to ‘number of parts per hundred’ and
write percentages as a fraction with denominator 100,
and as a decimal
• Consolidation (Week 12)
PSHEE
Digital footprints
- To understand the laws of social network sites and
interactive gaming.
-To understand the implications of leaving a digital
footprint.
-To promote the dangers of leaving a digital footprint
• Mental Mathematics
• Complete multiplication mentally and know the 3, 4, 6
and 8 times tables
• Recall prime numbers up to 19
• Know square numbers & square roots up to 144
• Identify all multiples and factors including finding all
factor pairs
• Use knowledge of factors and multiples in
multiplication
• Use doubling/halving as mental division/multi
strategies