Spring One Curriculum Overview Y5
Literacy
Plan 4A: Reports and Journalistic Writing
Required texts:
Tuesday by David Wiesner
Description:
Use Tuesday by David Wiesner to study report writing. Look at different ways of writing speech – playscripts,
speech bubbles, direct & reported speech. Compare formal & informal writing including use of passive voice.
Chn write newspaper reports.
Grammar focus:
1. Dialogue, direct/indirect speech punctuation. Reported speech.
2. Use of passive form to present information.
3. Use semi-colons and dashes to mark boundaries between independent clauses.
4. Use commas to clarify meaning.
Plan 4A: Drama (Shakespeare)
Required texts:
Mr William Shakespeare’s Plays by Marcia Williams
Description:
Introduce chn to Shakespeare using Marcia Williams’ Mr William Shakespeare’s Plays – Romeo & Juliet +
Macbeth. Investigate diff ways of writing dialogue inc. playscript layout & the use of informal language. Chn
write a 60 sec version of part of Macbeth.
Grammar focus:
1. Use dialogue, differences between spoken and written speech. Punctuation to indicate direct speech.
2. Formal and informal speech and writing. Use of subjunctive forms.
3. Use commas to clarify meaning.
Plan 3A: Classic narrative and oral poetry
Required texts:
The Ballad of Charlotte Dymond by Charles Causley
Lochinvar by Sir Walter Scott
Description:
Chn learn the classic narrative poem Ballad of Charlotte Dymond to recite & identify features. Use role play to
study the characters in depth. Compare with Lochinvar & explore relative clauses. Then use Chocolate Cake to
inspire their narrative poems.
Grammar focus:
1. Use commas to clarify meaning.
2. Use elaborated language of description, including expanded noun phrases, adjectives, adverbial and a variety
of subordinate clauses, including relative clauses.
Maths
Fractions, decimals and word problems
Revise comparing fractions with related denominators using equivalence.
Use mental division strategies to find unit fractions of amounts.
Find non-unit fractions of amounts.
Find fractions, multiply and divide to solve word problems.
Know decimal equivalents for halves, quarters, fifths, tenths and hundredths.
Written division; multiplying fractions
Use short division to divide three-digit numbers by single-digit numbers
Use short division to divide three-digit numbers by single-digit numbers including where the first digit is less
than the divisor
Use short division to divide three-digit numbers by single-digit numbers; divide any remainders to give fractions
Multiply unit fractions by whole numbers
Multiply non-unit fractions by whole numbers
Place value and Subtraction
Use place value to add and subtract to/from 6-digit numbers
Compare 6-digit numbers and round to the nearest 10, 100, 1000, 10,000 and 100,000
Use decomposition to subtract pairs of five-digit numbers
Use decomposition to subtract pairs of five-digit numbers
Use decomposition to subtract pairs of five-digit numbers and four-digit numbers from five-digit numbers; solve
word problems
Perimeter, area and volume
Find the perimeters of rectangles and composite shapes
Work out the missing lengths of sides in order to find perimeters
Find areas of squares and rectangles in cm2 or m2
Estimate area of irregular shapes; calculate the area from scale drawings
Find and estimate volumes
Number, place value and written subtraction
Multiply and divide by 10, 100 and 1000
Place numbers with two decimal places on a line, round to the nearest tenth or whole
Use Frog (counting up) to subtract pairs of nos with same number of decimal places
Use Frog (counting up) to subtract pairs of numbers with different numbers of decimal places, e.g. 3.2 – 1.78
and 5.34 – 3.7
Use counting up to find change and differences between prices; Solve subtraction word problems
Mental & written addition & subtraction; Written x and ÷
Revise column addition of four-digit and five-digit numbers
Revise column addition and subtraction of four-digit and five-digit numbers
Use place value to add and subtract; add and subtract near multiples of 100, 1000 and 10,000
Use short multiplication to multiply four-digit numbers (including amounts of money) by single-digit numbers
Use short division to divide four-digit numbers by single-digit numbers
ICT
Digital literacy: Visual media
Music
Benjamin Britten -A Tragic Story (Western Classical music)
Waltz, Sleeping Beauty by Pyotr Tchaikovsky
Montagues and Capulets from Romeo and Juliet by Sergei Prokofiev
Topic
Space Explorers
In Science, we’ll be:
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Making a pinhole viewer to record the size of the Sun and the Moon
Comparing the size of the planets and their distance from the Sun
Finding out about the movements of the Earth, Sun and Moon and how they affect us
Classifying rocks and comparing rocks on Earth with those on the Moon
Finding out about how craters are formed and the forces that are involved
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Making a spectronometer to find out about light and what it contains
Finding out about how light travels
Creating a timeline to show the life cycle of a star
Finding out more about the planets in our solar system
In History, we’ll be:
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Finding out about what people in the past used to think about the Earth, Sun and Moon
Finding out about Galileo and his findings about the Earth, Sun and Moon
Finding out about the constellations and the stories that they tell
Making a timeline to show some of the important events in the history of astronomy and space
In Art, we’ll be:
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Finding out about nebulae and how we can capture their shape, colour and patterns in art
Finding out about satellites and how we can create our own satellite images
In Technology, we’ll be:
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Finding out about the technology that is being used to explore Mars
Designing and making our own vehicle to explore a planet’s surface
In International, we’ll be:
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Finding out about the International Space Station (ISS)
Creating our own Voyager golden record to send into space
Being Human
In Science, we’ll be finding out:
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How humans are different from other animals
About the brain and the nervous system
About the bones and muscles in the body
How the human heart works
How we breathe and what the lungs do
What we inherit from our parents
How our environment affects us
How the body uses food and water
About the latest medical research
In Technology, we’ll be finding out:
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How to plan and prepare a healthy meal
In International, we’ll be finding out:
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About a major global health problem
PE
Karate
Team games
RE
Islam- Mohamed(PBUH) and The Qur’an