Download Year 5 - Colston`s School

ENGLISH
Pupils will follow a complete literacy programme designed
to stimulate and challenge their thinking whilst creating
enthusiastic, lifelong readers and writers. Reading, writing
composition, grammar, vocabulary, transcription, critical
thinking and spoken language will be developed.
Fiction text focus: ‘Goodnight Stroud’ by Pie Corbett,
‘Last Night I Saw the City Breathing’ by Andrew Fusek
Peters (poetic style)
Suggestions for wider reading: Any other books by Jeremy
Strong, ‘ Ratburger’, ‘Gangsta Granny’, ‘The Boy in the
Dress’, ‘Billionaire Boy’, ‘Mr Stink’ by David Walliams, ‘The
Diary of a Wimpy Kid’ by Jeff Kinney, ‘Mr Gum’ books by
Andy Stanton, ‘Alex Rider’ books and ‘The Power of Five’
books by Anthony Horowitz
‘This is NOT a Fairy Tale’ by Jeremy Strong (story by a
significant children’s author)
Suggestions for wider reading: ‘One Hundred Years of
Poetry for Children’ - Michael Harrison, ‘Classic Poems for
Children’- Nicola Baxter, ‘New and Collected Poems for
Children’ - Carol Ann Duffy
Non-fiction text focus: ‘Meet the Monster!’ Meet the
Future!’ (persuasive writing)
‘Jeremy Strong biography and autobiography’ &
‘Anthony Horowitz biography’ (biography and
autobiography)
Main Grammar focus:
 Modal verbs
 Adverbs of possibility
 Brackets, dashes or
parenthesis
commas
to
include
YEAR 5 TOPICS
SPRING TERM
These Colston’s Topic Plans
are intended to provide an
outline of our curriculum in
the main subject areas. It is
hoped this will provide a
useful guide for parents,
who may wish to aid and
support learning at home.
(Please note it is not
intended
to
be
an
exhaustive checklist of work
covered as teachers need
the flexibility to modify and
adapt
these
areas
of
learning).
MATHS
 Add and subtract 1, 10, 100, 1000, 10,000 and 100,000
to/from six-digit numbers
 Use negative numbers in context of temperature; Calculate
rises and falls in temperature.
 Subtract four digit-numbers from multiples of 1000.
 Multiply and divide by 10, 100 and 1000.
 Round decimals to the nearest whole and tenth.
 Reflect a shape and write the new co-ordinates.
 Work out new co-ordinates after a translation.
 Draw line graphs
 Find lowest common multiples
 Use short multiplication to multiply 4-digit by 1-digit numbers
 Find fractions of amounts.
 Know decimal equivalents for halves, quarters, fifths, tenths
and hundredths.
 Use short division to divide 3-digit by single-digit numbers
 Multiply unit fractions by whole numbers
 Use decomposition to subtract pairs of five-digit numbers
 Find the perimeters of rectangles and composite shapes
 Find areas of squares and rectangles in cm2 or m2
 Place numbers with two decimal places on a line, round to
the nearest tenth or whole
 Revise column addition of 4-digit and 5-digit numbers
SCIENCE
Properties and changes of materials:
 Grouping according to characteristics
 Burning ( including consideration of safety) and the new
materials produced
 Setting up questions to investigate dissolving ( including
understanding what is the set variable/ what aspects should
not be varied )
Earth, Moon and the Sun:
 Recognising that the Earth and Moon are spherical, orbiting
objects and considering the evidence
 Understanding why the Sun appears to move across the sky
and identifying patterns in sunrise and sunset data
 Understanding the link between shadows and the Earth’s
rotation
 Understanding the phases of the Moon
ART
Animals:
 sketches, paintings and masks
COMPUTING
We are bloggers:
 Become familiar with blogs as a medium
and a genre of writing
 Create a sequence of blog posts
 Incorporate additional media into blogs
 Comment on other posts and blogs
We are architects:
 Understand the work of architects and
engineers working in 3D
 Develop familiarity with simple CAD
(computer-aided design) tool. Including
SketchUP software.
 Explore and experiment with a 3D virtual
environment.
GEOGRAPHY
MUSIC
Cities:
 What are cities like?
 How are cities changing
Industry:
 How has London grown and changes
 Where are things made?
 How do people earn a living?
 What are the different types of work?
Environment:
 What causes pollution?
 How can we reduce pollution?
 Exploring clean energy
Chords:
 Perform chords on various
instruments
 Learn the difference between major
and minor
 Different types of harmony and
chords used as an accompaniment.
Musicals:
 History and features of musical
theatre
 Performance skills on keyboard and
voice
HISTORY
Tudors and Stuarts:
 Tudor architecture
 Tudor Clothing
 Tudor Food/ Farming
 James I
 John Smith
 Charles I
 Civil War
 Oliver Cromwell
DESIGN AND TECHNOLOGY
During this term the children will explore,
design and build their own moving toy. They
will investigate the transfer of motion, rotary
to linear and vertical to horizontal. They will
investigate the use of cams as a method of
transferring motion.
MFL
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Introductions
School subjects
Opinions
Telling the time
School buildings
PHYSICAL EDUCATION:
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Health related fitness
PE games
Dance
RELIGIOUS STUDIES:
Inspirational People:
 Anne Frank
 Gandhi
 Mother Teresa
 Oscar Romero
Becoming an Adult:
 Christian confirmation and believer’s
baptism
 Jewish Bar Mitzvah
 Sikh Amrit