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GATLEY PRIMARY SCHOOL
CURRICULUM MAP 2015/16 – YEAR 5
Autumn
Spring
Summer
Theme
Under the African Skies
Robotics
Journeys of Exploration
Core Descriptors
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Stories with a historical setting.
Creating novels.
Reading novels
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Poetry: Rapping, with beat boxing
Instructions: using modal verbs or
adverbs to indicate degrees of possibility
Using a colon to introduce a list
Playscripts
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Travel Brochures:
Expanded noun phrases
Relative clauses
Biographies/ Autobiographies:
Nelson Mandela: The long road to
freedom
Paragraphing
Pronouns
Linked mathematical
concepts:
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Distance/Measures
Coordinates Numerals and Words,
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Shape
Angles
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Time
Interpreting data
Enrichment Experience
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African drummers
African dancers
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Athletics awards
Kingsway DT – mechanics
Dancing expert: Body popping
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Eyam
Family Link
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African drummers: Share
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Class Assembly
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Class Production
Community Links (N,L,I)
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African Heritage: Parent’s experiences
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ParaOlympics
English
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British Values
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Coverage by Subject
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Moral Development: Moral and ethical
issues: Slavery, Racism
Social Development: Fairness: Fair
trade
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History: Slave trade, apartheid, Egypt?
Geography: Longitude, latitude, map
skills, atlas skills, tropics
Art: Masks, landscapes, clay animals,
batik.
DT: Making musical instruments
Music: African drumming
Dancing: African dance
Science : Lifecycles
RE : Biblical references
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Moral development: Disability /
Accessibility
Cultural development: Commonwealth
(Games)
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Cultural development: Celebrating
diversity
DT: Puppetry with joints, Meccano
Science: electricity – circuits, how the
body moves – joints and bones, growth,
Forces
Computing : coding – Scratch, Probots
PE – Robotic dance, gymnastics
Music: body percussion, beat boxing
History: history of computers, internet
(Berners-Lee)
Geography: Is China the centre of the
electronic world?
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Science: Space, air resistance
History: Apollo missions, Titanic: Safety,
Plague: immunisations,
RE: Religious pilgrimages
Geography: Mapping discoveries
Computing: Green screen: Bringing
people back to life.
Music: Film music: Creating
drama/atmosphere
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