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Curriculum Overview
Art
Year 5
- Learning about the elements of art (line, tone, pattern, colour, texture, shape, space and form)
- Developing ideas and observations in sketchbooks
- Discovering artists
- Sustained drawing and painting
- Exploring sculptural media (modroc)
Year 6
- Extending our learning of the elements of art (line, tone, pattern, colour, texture, shape, space and form)
- Developing ideas and observations in sketchbooks
- Discovering artists, designers and architects
- Sustained portrait drawings
- Exploring sculptural media (papier mache)
- Experimenting with ceramics
Computer Science
Year 5
Autumn Term 1:
- Introduction to ITC
- How the internet works
Autumn Term 2:
- Web research skills
- Text and Graphics
Spring Term 1:
- E safety
- MSW Logo
Spring Term 2:
- MSW Logo
Summer Term 1:
- Spreadsheet skills
Summer Term 2:
- iMovie
- Presentation skills
Year 6
Autumn Term 1:
- Introduction to ITC
- ESafety
- Copyright Free Imagery
Autumn Term 2:
- Scratch
Spring Term 1:
- Text and Graphics Games Advert
- iMovie
Spring Term 2:
- Control and Monitoring (Flowol)
Summer Term 1:
- Spreadsheets
- Hopscotch
Summer Term 2:
- Hopscotch
- Presentation skills (cross curriculum with Science)
Design Technology
Year 5
Autumn Term 1: Levers & Linkages
Autumn Term 2: Levers & Linkages / Christmas Textiles
Spring Term 1: Resistant Materials: Gift Box
Spring Term 2: Resistant Materials: Gift Box
Summer Term 1: Resistant Materials: Gift Box
Summer Term 2: Structures & Mechanisms / Food: Fresh Fruit Salad
Year 6
Autumn Term 1: Food: Pasta/Rice Salad / Healthy Packed Lunch
Autumn Term 2: Graphics: Orthographic (Squared paper) / Textiles: Christmas Bookmarks
Spring Term 1: Textiles: Glove Puppet
Spring Term 2: Textiles: Glove Puppet
Summer Term 1: Resistant Materials: Pull-Along Cam Toy
Summer Term 2: Resistant Materials: Pull-Along Cam Toy
English
Year 5
Autumn Term 1: All About Me, The Silver Sword
Autumn Term 2: War Poetry, A Small Miracle
Spring Term 1: The Highwayman, Persuasive Writing
Spring Term 2: Persuasive Writing, Matchbox Diary
Summer Term 1: Matchbox Diary, Letter Writing
Summer Term 2: TBC
Year 6
Autumn Term 1: The Magic Box, Voices in the Park, Reading Skills and SPAG
Autumn Term 2: Harry Potter, Reading Skills and SPAG
Spring Term 1: Alma, Newspapers
Spring Term 2: Narrative Writing, Discursive Writing, Reading Skills and SPAG
Summer Term 1: Biography
Summer Term 2: A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Geography
Year 5
Autumn Term: What is life like in St Lucia?
Spring Term: Mountain environments
Summer Term: Exploring the world with maps
Year 6
Autumn Term: Investigating the Geography of Chocolate
Spring Term: ‘Wish you were here’ : Tourism
Summer Term: The Geography of the UK
History
Year 5
Autumn Term: WW2
Spring Term: Ancient Egyptians
Summer Term: Victorian society
Year 6
Autumn Term 1: Migration: Saxons
Autumn Term 2: Migration: Vikings
Spring Term 1: Migration to Britain 1200-1500
Spring Term 2: Religion and migration in the 17th century
Summer Term 1: Empire and migration
Summer Term 2: Windrush generation
Maths
Year 5
Autumn Term 1:
- Number 1: Place Value, Multiples, Factors and prime numbers
- Number 2: Mental calculations (all four operations), written addition and subtraction, problem solving
- Geometry and Measures 1: Angles, length, perimeter and area
Autumn Term 2:
- Number 3: Written multiplication and division
- Number 4: Fractions and decimals: tenths, hundredths and thousandths
- Shape, Space and Measure 2: 2D and 3D shapes
- Data 1: Tables and bar charts
Spring Term 1:
- Number 5: Negative numbers, rounding, addition and subtraction of large numbers and problem solving
- Number 6: Long multiplication, square and cube numbers, Adding and subtracting fractions
- Geometry and Measures 3: Reflections and translations, Mass
Spring Term 2:
- Number 7: Mental and written methods of addition, subtraction, multiplication and division, problem solving involving all four operations
- Number 8: Calculating with fractions, Percentages
- Geometry and Measures 4: Capacity
- Data 2: Line graphs and comparative graphs
Summer Term 1:
- Number 9: Negative numbers and Roman numerals, Working with Fractions
- Number 10: Adding and subtracting large and small numbers, Long multiplication and division with remainders
- Shape, Space and Measure 5: Diagonals and problems involving angles, Volume, time and money
Summer Term 2:
- Number 11: Addition, subtraction, multiplication and division of money
- Number 12: Decimals and fractions, Problems involving percentages
- Shape, Space and Measure 6: Perimeter, area and scale drawing
- Data 3: Using tables and line graphs
Year 6
Autumn Term 1:
- Number 1: Place value and rounding, Multiples, factors and prime numbers
- Number 2: Mental calculations (addition and subtraction), Written methods (all four operations), problem solving
- Geometry and Measures 1: Circles and angles, Units of measure
Autumn Term 2:
- Number 3: Comparing, ordering and simplifying fractions, Multiplying and dividing decimals by 10, 100 and 1000, Order of Operations (BIDMAS), and Negative numbers
- Geometry and Measures 2: 2D and 3D shapes
- Data 1: Representing data pie charts
Spring Term 1:
- Number 4: Decimals and money, Mental and written calculations (all four operations), Calculating with fractions and large numbers
- Geometry and Measures 3: Reflections and translations, Perimeter, area and volume
Spring Term 2:
- Number 5: Multiplying and dividing decimals, Solving problems with percentages, decimals and fractions, Place value and rounding
- Algebra 1: Simple formulae
- Geometry and Measures 4: Area and volume, Converting between metric unis of measure of length, mass and capacity
- Data 2: Pie charts and line graphs
Summer Term 1:
- Number 6: Adding and subtracting large and small numbers, Long multiplication and division
- Number 7: Working with fractions, Problem solving involving percentages, fractions and decimals
- Every day: Theme Park Maths
Summer Term 2:
- Number 8: Ratio and proportion, Fractions with different denominators, Problems involving money, percentages, fractions, decimals and measures
- Algebra 2: Algebra puzzles
- Data 3: Using data
Music
Year 5
Autumn Term 1: Pulse and Rhythm
- Rhythmic notation keeping in time
Autumn Term 2: Mysterious Castle
- Telling a story through music
Spring Term 1:
- Graphic Scores - Music notation, Dynamics
- Djembe Drumming - First Access specialist led workshops
Spring Term 2: Rounds
- Playing and singing in an ensemble
Summer Term 1: The Orchestra
- Instruments of the orchestra
- Peter and the Wolf/Carnival of the Animals
Summer Term 2: Elements of Music
- Ostinati
- Major/Minor
- BBC 10 pieces
Year 6
Autumn Term 1: Pulse, Rhythm and Notation
- Composing own piece in 44 time
- Simple notation on a stave
- Boomwhackers
Autumn Term 2: Keyboard Skills (1)
- Developing note reading and technical keyboard skills
- Major/minor
Spring Term 1: Tudor Music
- Historical context and performance in a given style
Spring Term 2: Horror Music
- Composing music for an intended purpose, looking at mood and atmosphere
Summer Term 1: Raps
- Writing and performing raps
Summer Term 2: Chinese Music
- Composing using a pentatonic scale in a given style
Physical Education
Year 5
Autumn/Spring Terms (3 of the following per term):
- Basketball
- Football
- Rugby
- Netball
- Hockey
- Swimming
- Gymnastics
- Dance
- Outdoor & Adventurous Activity
Summer Term:
- Athletics
- Tennis
- Kwik Cricket
- Rounders
Year 6
Autumn/Spring Terms (3 of the following per term):
- Basketball
- Football
- Rugby
- Netball
- Hockey
- Swimming
- Gymnastics
- Dance
- Outdoor & Adventurous Activity
Summer Term:
- Athletics
- Tennis
- Kwik Cricket
- Rounders
PSHE
Year 5
Autumn Term 1: Health & wellbeing
- Bullying
- e-safety
- Taking risks
- Being safe
- Improving the facilities
Autumn Term 2: Citizenship
- British values
- Humanity
- Identity
- Rights and responsibilities
- Diversity
Spring Term 1: SRE
- Puberty – physical and emotional changes
- Coping with changes
- Relationships
- Family and marriage
Spring Term 2: Careers & WRL
- Connexions?
- Employer visits?
- Exploring different jobs
- Enterprise activity
Summer Term: Economic wellbeing
- Earn, save, spend
- It’s got to be earned
- Grow money
- Saving
- Just in case
Year 6
Autumn Term 1: Citizenship
- British values
- Diversity
- Hate crime
- Rules
- Improving facilities
Autumn Term 2: Economic wellbeing
- Charity
- Tax facts
- Please little spender
- Spend
- When you get your money
Spring Term 1: Careers & WRL
- Employer visits?
- Exploring different jobs
- Connexions?
- Employability skills – teamwork, independence
Spring Term 2: SRE
- Puberty
- Conception and pregnancy
- Positive relationships
- Coping with changes
Summer Term: Health & wellbeing
- Bullying
- Physical health and mental wellbeing
- Healthy eating
- Basic first aid
Religious Studies
Year 5
Autumn Term 1: Judaism: beliefs
Autumn Term 2: Judaism: practices
Spring Term 1: Christianity: beliefs
Spring Term 2: Christianity: practices
Summer Term 1: Creation stories
Summer Term 2: Creation stories
Year 6
Autumn Term 1: Hinduism
Autumn Term 2: Religion and the environment
Spring Term 1: Who is God?
Spring Term 2: Islam
Summer Term 1: Old Testament Bible stories
Summer Term 2: Old Testament Bible stories
Science
Year 5
Autumn Term 1: Properties of materials part 1
Autumn Term 2: Light
Spring Term 1: Earth & Space
Spring Term 2: Classification
Summer Term 1: Living things, habitats & life cycles
Summer Term 2: How Science works investigations
Year 6
Autumn Term 1: Animal & human biology
Autumn Term 2: Forces
Spring Term 1: Electricity
Spring Term 2: Materials
Summer Term 1: Evolution & inheritance
Summer Term 2: How Science works investigations
Spanish
This year, both years 5 & 6 will all start to learn Spanish for the first time and will consequently be studying the same curriculum.
Autumn Term 1:
- Introduction to phonics
- Introductions and greetings. Numbers and age
Autumn Term 2:
- Items in a pencil case
- Masculine and feminine nouns
Spring Term 1:
- Animals and colours
- Masculine and feminine nouns.
- Adjective agreements and position
- Building sentences
Spring Term 2:
- Animals and colours
- Masculine and feminine nouns.
- Adjective agreements and position
- Building sentences
Summer Term 1:
- Developing memory skills through story of ‘The very Hungry Caterpillar’
- Numbers
- Days of the week
- Fruits and food
Summer Term 2:
- Developing memory skills through story of ‘The very Hungry Caterpillar’
- Numbers
- Days of the week
- Fruits and food