Curriculum Overview

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

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)

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

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

Year 5

Autumn Term 1: Geography Detectives

Autumn Term 2: What is life like in St Lucia?

Spring Term 1: Magnificent Mountains

Spring Term 2: Resources

Summer Term 1: Geography in the news

Summer Term 2: Geography in the news

 

Year 6

Autumn Term 1: The geography of chocolate

Autumn Term 2: Antarctica

Spring Term 1: Volcanoes

Spring Term 2: Biomes (Focus on deserts and rainforests)

Summer Term 1: The Geography of the UK

Summer Term 2: The Geography of the UK

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

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

Due to the current situation, the Music department have put together a list of useful online resources that your child can access while at home to support their Music learning. Please click here to access the linked document.

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

Year 5

Autumn/Spring Terms (3 of the following per half-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

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

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

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

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