Year 5 Medium Term Planning Grid – Harry Potter
Week
1
Mon
22nd
Feb
2
Mon
29thFeb
Main Outcome
Literacy –
instructional texts
Science – life
process and plant
reproduction
Arts Week
Book Day
Literacy – setting
description for a
script
English
Potion Writing (instructions)
1. Identify features of instructions (focus on
helpful hints and tips)
2. Brainstorm different potions and ingredients
(what could they be for?)
3. Write ingredients list (retell instructions)
4. Plan instructions
5. Write instructions (publish on Friday
afternoon)
Topic
Herbology (Science)
Brackets, adverts, imperative sentence starters,
Collective nouns
I can describe the life process of
reproduction in some plants and animals
Script Writing
1. Performing scripts (what helped us?)
2. Identifying features of scripts
3. Looking at setting descriptions
4. Choosing moment from film, book or write
your own – drawing setting description,
deciding on the mood
5. Writing setting description
Adverbs, nouns, SNOT
Arts / Book Week Activities
Creating HP display
1. Game of Quidditch outside
2. Hogwarts class party (HP fancy dress)
3. HP top trumps
4. Creating magical chocolate bar
1. Plant recap (what plants need to grow,
be healthy, parts of a plant)
2. Plant dissection and labelling
3. Creating group models of plants for
display
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/teachers/ks2
_lessonplans/science/life_cycles.shtml
Homework
Potato characters
Book Week Challenge
Create a map of your
route to school. Write
a set of directions for
someone to follow.
3
Mon
7th
March
4
Mon
14th
March
Literacy – script
writing and
performances
Geography –
mapwork
Harry Potter
Studios Trip
2 x Wed 16th
2 x Wed 17th
Literacy –
Newspaper plans
Science – life cycles
Script Writing
1. Storyboarding script (comic strip)
2. Drafting script
3. Drafting script
4. Performing script / editing and enhancing
5. Performing script
Adverbs, nouns, SNOT
Geography/ DT – mapwork and aerial
views
1. Look at different maps, create routes
2. Look at Hogwarts map – can you
create one to scale? Plan maps
3. Finish map
(All children to take
home a copy of First
News)
Newspaper writing
1. Recap and identify features of newspapers
(improve an extract)
2. Brainstorming important events in the book
(are you a Muggle or a Wizard reporter?)
3. Adding quotes to each article and
brainstorming headlines (choosing article –
what sort of mood are you going to create?
What is the purpose of it? Who is the
audience?)
4. Reporting in role (what has happened?
What will people need to know?)
Science - Care of Magical and Muggle
Creatures
1. Difference between amphibian,
mammal, insect and bird
2. Life cycles of amphibians / mammals
/insect and a bird (each group creating
life cycle for one) and sharing together
3. Marketplace activity- life cycle of living
things
Reflecting on trip to
studios
Read the newspaper at
home. What features
can you find? What
did you like about it?
I can describe the differences in the life
cycles of a mammal, an amphibian , an
insect and a bird
Quotations, colons, alliteration, captions
5
Mon
21st
March
Good Friday
Literacy –
Newspaper reports
Newspaper Writing
1. Planning the article
2. Drafting the article
3. Editing and enhancing
4. Publishing the article
Science - Care of Magical and Muggle
Creatures
1. Creating own magical animal and life
cycle (Fawkes the Phoenix) – how can
you show if it is an amphibian /
mammal / insect or bird?
2. Making model of bird / representing life
cycle
Quotations, colons, alliteration, captions
EASTER
Next HT theme
homework
Resources needed
Extra HP books
Maps (from Year 6)
Green Screen ICT resources