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Knollmead Primary School
Curriculum Overview Year 5 – Autumn Term
Cornerstones
Topic
Memorable
Experience
Geography,
History, Art
and DT
Autumn 1
Autumn 2
Time Traveller
Hola Mexico
Who’s Who mystery gallery: Children to bring in photos
to create their own mystery gallery
Mexican Piñatas: Children to create their own Piñatas, to
be smashed at the end of the topic.
Challenge Tolworth - Look at the Tolworth Remembered
book: Check changes they have seen over the years.
G - Name and locate geographical features (including hills,
mountains, coasts and rivers), and land-use patterns; and
understand how some of these aspects have changed over
time
Think about things changes in your lifetime and discuss
whether these changes were positive or negative.
H - Study an aspect or theme in British history that
extends pupils’ chronological knowledge beyond
Self-portrait using digital imagery
A - Improve their mastery of art and design techniques,
including drawing, painting and sculpture with a range of
materials
Finding Mexico: Children to use ICT to locate Mexico and
identify the key features of the country.
G - Locate the world’s countries, using maps to focus on
Europe (including the location of Russia) and North and
South America, concentrating on their environmental
regions, key physical and human
characteristics, countries, and major cities
The Day of the Dead festival (‘Día de los Muertos’) –
Children:
H -Learn about a non- European society that provides
contrasts with British history
Day of the Dead Masks: Children create the Day of the
Dead masks used in Mexico to celebrate the festival: ‘Día
de los Muertos’,
A - Improve their mastery of art and design techniques,
including drawing, painting and sculpture with a range of
materials
Piñata making
DT- Evaluate their ideas and products against their own
design criteria and consider the views of others to
improve their work
Express
English
Spelling,
punctuation and
grammar
Class Album: Children to bring in pictures of themselves
from when they were younger and the class to guess who
the pictures are of. The children create a class Album
Descriptive writing:
Descriptive pieces bases on Roald Dahl’s BFG.
Descriptive piece using visual literacy- Harry Potter
Diary:
Diary entry around the summer holiday
Poem:
Jeanie Bakers ‘The Window’
Non-chronological report:
Non-chronological report about Big Ben.
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Maths
Revisiting word classes
Types of Nouns: Converting nouns or adjectives
Rules of Speech
Modal verbs
Apostrophes for contractions and possession
Paragraphs: Devices to build cohesion within a
paragraph [for example, then, after that, this,
firstly]
Conjunctions: Coordinating and subordinating
Number: Place Value
Day of the Dead Masks: Children to create a Mexican
‘Day of the Dead Mask’ for the Mexican festival and
Piñata smashing.
Descriptive writing:
Descriptive pieces based on the visual literacy clip from
Aladdin.
Persuasive Writing:
A persuasive advert enticing readers to journey to
Aladdin’s ‘Cave of Wonders’.
Instructional writing:
Children to write a set of instructions for creating a ‘Day
of the Dead Mask’, based on their own creations.
Brackets, dashes or commas to indicate
parenthesis
 Passive voice: Use of the passive to affect the
presentation of information in a sentence.
 Relative clauses: Relative clauses beginning with
who, which, where, when, whose, that, or an
omitted relative pronoun.
 Hyphens: The use of hyphenated words to avoid
ambiguity [for example, man eating shark versus
man-eating shark, or recover versus re-cover] and
as compound adjectives to add detail to the noun.
 Semi-colons: Use of the semi-colon, colon and dash
to mark the boundary between independent clauses
[for example, It’s raining; I’m fed up]
 Colons: Use of the colon to introduce a list and to
join sentences.
Number: Multiplication and division
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Read, write, order and compare numbers up to 10
 Use their knowledge of the order of operations to
000 000 and determine the value of each digit.
carry out calculations involving the four operations.
 Round any whole number to a required degree of
 Solve problems involving addition, subtraction,
accuracy.
multiplication and division.
 Use negative numbers in context, and calculate
 Use estimation to check answers to calculations
intervals across zero.
and determine in the context of a problem.
 Solve number and practical problems that involve
Fractions
all of the above.
 Use common factors to simplify fractions; use
Number: Addition subtraction, multiplication + division
common multiples to express fractions in the same
 Solve addition and subtraction multi step problems
denomination.
in contexts, deciding which operations and methods
 Compare and order fractions, including fractions >
to use and why.
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 Multiply multi-digit number up to 4 digits by a 2
 Generate and describe linear number sequences
digit number using the formal written method of
(with fractions)
long multiplication.
 Add and subtract fractions with different
 Divide numbers up to 4 digits by a 2 digit whole
denominations and mixed numbers, using the
number using the formal written method of long
concept of equivalent fractions.
division, and interpret remainders as whole number
 Multiply simple pairs of proper fractions, writing
remainders, fractions or by rounding as
the answer in its simplest form [for example x = ]
appropriate for the context.
 Divide proper fractions by whole numbers [for
 Divide numbers up to 4 digits by a 2 digit number
example ÷ 2 = ]
using the formal written method of short division,
 Associate a fraction with division and calculate
interpreting remainders according to context.
decimal fraction equivalents [ for example, 0.375]
 Perform mental calculations, including with mixed
for a simple fraction [for example ]
operations and large numbers.
 Recall and use equivalences between simple
 Identify common factors, common multiples and
fractions, decimals and percentages, including in
prime numbers.
different contexts.
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Science
Computing
Music
Get Sorted: Materials
Danger Low Voltage: Electricity
 Compare and group together everyday materials on
 Associate the brightness of a lamp or the volume
the basis of their properties, including their
of a buzzer with the number and voltage of cells
hardness, solubility, transparency, conductivity
used in the circuit
(electrical and thermal), and response to magnets
 Compare and give reasons for variations in how
 Know that some materials will dissolve in liquid to
components function, including the brightness of
form a solution, and describe how to recover a
bulbs, the loudness of buzzers and the on/off
substance from a solution
position of switches
 Use knowledge of solids, liquids and gases to
 Use recognised symbols when representing a simple
decide how mixtures might be separated, including
circuit in a diagram.
through filtering, sieving and evaporating
 Give reasons, based on evidence from comparative
and fair tests, for the particular uses of everyday
materials, including metals, wood and plastic
 Demonstrate that dissolving, mixing and changes of
state are reversible change
E-Safety
Blogging
 Use technology safely, respectfully and
 Understand computer networks including the
responsibly; recognise acceptable/unacceptable
internet; how they can provide multiple services,
behaviour; identify a range of ways to report
such as the world-wide web; and the opportunities
concerns about content and contact.
they offer for communication and collaboration
Hopes and Dreams
Preparation for a public performance
 More challenging warm-up activities
 Learn a melody/harmony line by rote
 Take inspiration from a selection of athletes from
 Maintain either the melody/harmony line while
the Paralympics / performers from the stage
both are sung simultaneously
production of ‘Matilda’
 Improve projection of voice, understanding the
 Improving intonation, extending pitch range
importance of lungs, good posture, breath control
 Clearer diction – enunciating beginnings and endings
and supporting muscles
of words
 Coordinate vocals with hand/arm movements to
 Rhythmic accuracy – use of syncopation and
enhance the performance visually and aid learning
triplets
of lyrics
Adding expression to enhance performance –
showing an understanding of the lyrics
Greetings; Classroom language; Numbers 1-50; Age
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French
PE
RE
PSHE
Gymnastics: develop flexibility, strength, technique,
control and balance
Rugby: play competitive games, modified where
appropriate, and apply basic principles suitable for
attacking and defending
Rules and Guidelines for Living
New Beginnings
Everyday conversation; Cross-curricular links:
mathematics; Cultural Links: Christmas in France
Dance (The Haka): perform dances using a range of
movement patterns
Hockey: play competitive games, modified where
appropriate, and apply basic principles suitable for
attacking and defending
Christmas in the Church
Getting on and falling out