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Year 5
Autumn Term
Year 5 Curriculum content
Understanding physical development, health and wellbeing
- Philosophy– learning about different questions and using a variety of stimuli to
have in depth discussions.
- New beginnings, Goals and relationships with friends
- PE
- Skills of flight in gym
- Dance—how movements change when music changes, telling a story through
dance
- Shooting and keeping skills and attacking and defending across a range of sports
- To develop tennis techniques: forehand, back hand, volley and rallying
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Understanding English, communication and languages
- Using sources to research and write about planets.
- Reading and writing biography of Neil Armstrong.
- Writing of science reports after rocket flights.
- Exploring film as a genre, writing scenes and dialogues and responding to film.
- Looking at imagery used in classic poetry– The Highwayman.
- Beginning to learn Spanish.
Historical, geographical and social understanding
- Learning about significant scientific event of landing on the moon and why it
was so significant.
- Finding out about important people in black history during October’s black history
month.
- What does the bible mean when it asks Christians to ‘love your neighbour’
Scientific and technological understanding
- The solar system, with greater focus on earth, sun and moon.
- How the earth rotates, moon orbits and how these relate to day and night.
- Phases of the moon.
- Exploring how gases are useful.
- Designing, making, flying and evaluating water rockets.
Understanding the arts
- Pastel and paint in response to space poem.
- Use of collage and 3D modelling material to create textured planets
- To study the work of Matisse, recreating pictures in his style.
- Learning songs for carol concert– including parts and rounds- adding percussion
Mathematical understanding
- Using and securing our knowledge of numbers to add, subtract multiply and
divide using mental and written methods.
- Using factors to help with multiplication and division
- Visualise and draw 3D shapes and nets, measuring and calculating area and
perimeter
- Draw and interpret line and bar graphs (linked to science)
- Reading scales for length, weight and capacity
- Reviewing telling the time and introducing 24 hour clock
- Finding equivalent fractions
- Solving word problems involving all four operations and real life situations.
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