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Curriculum Overview

Year 5 Curriculum Overview 2026-2027

 

Autumn 1

 

Autumn 2

 

Spring 1

 

Spring 2

 

Summer 1

 

Summer 2

 

English

*Narrative: Mythical adventure story

 

Myths and Legends

The Adventures of Odysseus

 

 

 

*Narrative: story ending

*Non Chronological Report Disciplinary writing

 

Historical Fiction

Children of the Benin Kingdom

 

Mentor Texts: Non-fiction texts - Ancient Benin

Classic Fiction/significant author (x15)

Hamlet

 

 

*Persuasive Letter (x4)

 Job Applications

Mentor Texts

 

 

 

*Persuade: Speech (x12)

 Speech Writing

 

Mentor texts - speeches, incl video and sound recording

 

*Historical Essay(Disciplinary Writing x7)

Comparison between London and Baghdad 900 CE

Ballad/narrative poem

Classic Poem

The Highwayman

 

 

 

*Narrative Story (x15):

Eco-Lit

The Story of the Blue Planet

 

 

*Journalistic Writing

Opinion Piece (x10)

  Our school (governors’ video)

Maths

Number: place value

Number: addition and subtraction

Number: multiplication and division

Number: multiplication and division

Number: fractions

Number: multiplication and division

Number: fractions

Number: decimals and percentages

Number: decimals and percentages

Measurement: perimeter and area

Statistics

Geometry: shape

Geometry: position and direction 

Number: decimals

Number: decimals

Number: negative numbers

Measurement: converting units

Measurement: volume

Science

Materials: properties and changes of materials

Materials: properties and changes of materials

Earth and Space

Forces

Living Things and their Habitats:

Life Cycles of plants and non human animals

 

Living Things and their Habitats:

Life Cycle of Animals, including Humans: changes as humans grow (RHE link)

History

How did early Islamic scholarship affect the wider world?

 

Consequence enquiry

 

 

 

How do we know about the Anglo -Saxons in Britain?

 

Evidential Thinking enquiry

Causation enquiry

 

 

 

 

What happened as a result of the Viking invasion?

Consequence enquiry

 

Geography

 

 

Our Living Planet

(Biomes)

Positional concepts (tropics, latitude, longitude, hemisphere); physical geography-climate zones, biomes 

 

Field Work

Exploring air quality in the local area

 

Scandinavia

Mapping, key environmental regions, physical and human characteristics; compare UK with another region

Computing

Programming A

Selection in physical computing

Creating Media

Video Production

Programming B

Selection in quizzes

Computing and Networks

Sharing Information

Creating Media

Vector drawing

Data and Information

Flat-file databases

Design and Technology

Structures

Frame structures

Project: Bird box

Mechanical Systems

Cams

Project: Moving Toy

Food

Celebrating culture and seasonality

Project: vegetarian cottage pie

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Electrical Systems

Complex switches and circuits (monitoring and control)

Project: Alarm

Electrical Systems

Complex switches and circuits

(monitoring and control)

Project: Electrical board game

Music 

 

Ukulele

Dawlish -Spring1

Newport-

Oakhill- Aut 1

Thorpe Hall -Aut 1

Melody and Harmony in Music

How does music bring us together?

 

Sing and Play in Different Styles

How does music connect us with our past?

Composing and Chords

How Does Music Make the World a Better Place?

Enjoying Musical Styles

How Does Music Teach Us About our Community?

Whole class instrumental teaching- Ukulele

Developing understanding of musical notation and learning to play a string instrument

Art

Drawing

Investigate and collect visual information

Enlarge and layer

Use natural form

Use variety of mark makers

Working in the negative

Hundertwasser

 Frank Auerbach

Vincent Van Gogh

 

Painting

Multi surface images

Develop control of tools and techniques

Use artists work as a  starting point

Chris Ofili

André Derain

Henri Matisse (Fauvist painters)

Lubaina Himid

Printmaking

Reduction block press print

Combining printmaking processes

Responding to the work of printmakers

 

Bryan Wynter

 

Photography

Artist in Residence Project

 

Collage/Textiles

Construction and destruction processes

Constructed hangings

Fabric relief panels

Batik

Chinwe Chukwuogo-Roy

Pablo Picasso

Romare Bearden

r 3-D/Sculpture

Respond to artists work

Produce sculptural forms

-modroc

-tissue and PVA

-clay slab forms

Alberto Giacometti

 

 

PSHE/ safeguarding

 

Wellbeing:

Emotions

How can we manage challenges?

 

Community:

How can we ensure fairness and respect for women and girls?  

 

Citizenship

Wellbeing: Physical

Is it hard to be healthy?

Wellbeing: Staying safe and healthy: How can I avoid harm?

 

Healthy Relationships Families:

Is there such a thing as a perfect family?

 

Healthy Relationships Friends:

How can I be a great friend?

 

Healthy Relationships

Power in Relationships

How do I get help if I don’t feel safe?

Online Lives:

How do I thrive online?

 

Online Safety

Media Influence

Who decides what I experience in the online world?

Growing Up:

How will I change as I grow up?

 

Financial Literacy

RE

Why do some people think God exists? 

What does it mean to be a Muslim in Britain today? (part 1)

What matters most to Christians and Humanists?

 

If God is everywhere, why go to a place of worship?

What would Jesus do? (Can we live by the values of Jesus in the twenty-first century?)

PE

Invasion Games

Basketball

Invasion Games Hockey

Gymnastics

 

Dance

Strike and Field Games

Rounders

Net and Wall Games Tennis

French

Half-term 1: Describing me and others

Half-term 2: Saying what I and others have

Phonics: the SSC (sound-symbol correspondences) revisited and/or introduced this term are:

 

Silent Final Consonant [SFC] |Silent Final E SFe] [a ] [an/am/en/em] [i] [in/im] [qu]

[u] [ou] [on] [au/eau/o/ô] open and closed [eu] We also revisit liaison.

 

Vocabulary: greetings, adjectives to describe

mood and character, months, numbers 13-31,

dates, nouns and adjectives for places, festivals, physical description, interrogatives qui ? quell ? quelle ?

 

Grammar: être (plural) regular plural adjective agreement (-s) avoir (plural), singular and plural indefinite articles (un, une, des), intonation questions (including with quoi, où, qui, quand, comment)

Half-term 1: Saying what I and others do

Half-term 2: Saying how many and describing

things

Phonics: the SSC (sound-symbol

correspondences) revisited and/or taught this

term are: [é/et/ez/er] [è/ê] [oi] [(a)in] [ai]

We also revisit liaison.

 

Vocabulary: verbs and nouns to describe

activities in school, at the weekend, life in the city and country, journeys

 

Grammar: -ER present tense (singular) and 1st person plural (we), JOUER + à + sports, ALLER (singular), definite articles (le, la, les), regular plural marking on nouns (-s), indefinite articles (un, une, des), il y a, Est-ce que questions (including with WH-words), negation (ne ... pas)

Half-term 1: Describing things and people

Half-term 2: Expressing likes and saying what I and others do

Phonics: the SSC (sound-symbol

correspondences) revisited and/or taught this

term are: [SFC] |Silent Final E [SFe] soft [c/ç] [ch] [-ien] [qu] [j/soft g] [-tion] We also revisit liaison.

 

Vocabulary: verbs and nouns to describe

sports, playing instruments, activities in

different countries, life at home, home town,

requesting food and drink

 

Grammar: FAIRE (singular), weather

expressions with faire, faire vs. jouer with

sports, jouer + de + instruments, pronoun on

meaning you (general) and we, 2-verb

structures (aimer, detester, devoir, vouloir,

pouvoir - singular)

Educational Visits

Young V&A Kensington

Religious Education, History

Art

Estorick Collection

 

OR Hayward Gallery

Art

Natural History Museum

STEM

Science

Computing

D&T

Lego - Mission to Mars

Local Field Study

Geography

British Museum

History - Anglo Saxons and Vikings

Residential

 (optional)

 

Local Synagogue

RE

 

Bank of England

PSHE

 

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